https://blog.d3soteric.com/tags/leadership/Recent content in Leadership on d3sotericHugoen-usSat, 03 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.d3soteric.com/goodwill-budget/Sat, 03 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.d3soteric.com/goodwill-budget/In security, being correct is the floor, not the finish line. A finding can be technically right, fully defensible, and backed by the published rules — and still be the wrong thing to act on the way you acted on it. That gap is where a lot of hard-won credibility quietly drains away. I want to give that gap a name: the goodwill budget. It’s the standing willingness of everyone around you — engineers, customers, executives, partners — to keep saying yes to security when you ask.