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> 人は、城であり、かつ、セキュリティホールでもあります

Trying to translate this sentence found in an article about personnel issues
at work. For now, I have:

> People can be a fortress or a security risk.

But 城 literally means "castle" and "セキュリティホール" means "security hole". However,
it feels odd to me to translate it to say that people are "castles or security
holes". I think the author means something like

> "People can be a company's strength or liability."

but I'm not sure if that is close enough to the original.
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Translating 人は、城であり、かつ、セキュリティホールでもあります。
* This 人は城 is probably a reference to ["人は城、人は石垣、人は堀"](https://www.city.kofu.yamanashi.jp/shingenkou-no-machi/wartactics.html), a wisdom by [Takeda Shingen](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takeda_Shingen). This is believed to mean human resources are the most important "infrastructure" of an organization.
  * かつ is not "or" but a very explicit " **and** (at the same time)".

So this sentence seems to suggest human resources are the most important (城)
to a company, but the most risky/vulnerable (セキュリティホール) thing at the same
time. I don't know if there is a catchy paraphrase of this 城 in English, but
you might just explain the basic idea.
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