We spent weeks applying a systematic diagnostic method — TRIZ's Function-Failure Analysis — to every major cloud security tool category. To find out whether the gap everyone senses but nobody names has a precise structural description.
It does and it's the same gap in all six categories. The same gap, it turns out, that's now emerging in AI-assisted software development. Same function missing. Different domain.
The diagnostic method
Function-Failure Analysis (FFA) is a TRIZ discipline for finding what's missing in a system. It's not retrospective — it doesn't ask "what went wrong?" It's structural — it asks "what function should exist here but doesn't?"
The method has four steps:
