The Goodwill Budget: When Being Right Isn't the Whole Job
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.