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In all honesty, security is just really hard and we're really bad at it. Perhaps an alternative would be to establish standards when it comes to security team headcount and salary in an organization? That way they're incentivized to follow the rules and you have more leeway to punish them if they don't follow the baseline.


The solution to being bad at security isn't to establish quotas (that's a great way to make sure DevOps engineers get rebranded as Dev-Ops-Sec engineers, and not much else), but to get better at security.

Imagine if any other field said that. "Not burning people's houses down with electrical wiring is just really hard and we're really bad at it." "Keeping bridges standing is just really hard and we're really bad at it." "Flying across the country without killing any passengers is just really hard and we're really bad at it."




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