☐✗ANTI-CHECKBOX
The Manifesto
Security is not a checklist. It's not a certification. It's not a binder on a shelf.
Security is a system. A practice. A culture.
We've seen it too many times. Companies spend millions on security theater while their actual risk stays the same. Consultants produce 200-page reports that never get implemented. Frameworks that look impressive in PowerPoint but don't account for real tech stacks. Compliance checkboxes that give false confidence while critical vulnerabilities remain.
We Reject:
- ✗Compliance theater that doesn't reduce risk. Passing an audit while leaving SSH keys in public repos is not security.
- ✗Theoretical frameworks that don't account for your stack. "Best practices" that assume you have unlimited budget and time are useless.
- ✗Consultants who produce reports, not results.If the outcome is a binder nobody reads, you wasted your money.
- ✗Vanity metrics that don't correlate with security. "100% of developers trained" means nothing if vulnerabilities aren't decreasing.
- ✗Security as a blocker.If your security team is the reason releases are delayed, you've built the wrong system.
We Believe:
- ✓Developers are the front line of security.Not security teams. Not compliance officers. The people who write code.
- ✓Metrics should correlate with actual risk.Mean Time to Remediation matters. "Security awareness completion rate" doesn't.
- ✓Security should enable the business, not block it.Fast, safe releases are possible. You don't have to choose.
- ✓Automation beats process documentation.If it can be automated, automate it. If it can't, question whether it's necessary.
- ✓Implementation beats strategy documents.Working code. Running systems. Measurable outcomes. Not PowerPoint.
This is the Asgard way.
Not a binder on a shelf.
A living system.
A movement.
Join the revolution against checkbox security.
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