Lol, this is going over my head a bit, but in case I was misunderstood, I had a role once that was secops adjacent but not strictly "security," just ended up doing a lot of favors for a security team. There was a recommendation that was super low hanging with extremely high impact, but the sec team determined it was "too low risk to action on without better reasoning" or something, they got hit pretty hard by it and I was involved in some triage, shaking my head the entire time. Very similar reasoning. "I need a bulletproof reason to update or change something" is like, to me, not a productive attitude.
Ha ha, "too low risk to action ..." When I was younger I would fight those valiant fights, now only if actual end users would suffer irreparable harm, I give me people my advice, but when the pedantically push back and MAKE YOU MAKE THEM UNDERSTAND, Nawww, I told you what I think and why, I am done.
My comment condensed an exchange that has happened enough times to be a trope. You try to discretely get someones attention to alert them about an opsec issue, you then whisper and they basically look right at the target and then yell back at you WHY ARE YOU WHISPERING. Nawww, you are on your own now.
I get this a lot with AI now, I tell people what is a current capability and what the curve looks like, I send them a gist of those capabilities and they want to get into some goal post moving debate. I don't engage. I don't care about being right, or being taken seriously. The funny thing is, sometimes when they come back months later with a, "hey it turns out ..." that they want me to say I told you so, or glad you turned around. I literally don't care.
I and the world have suffered so many fools, we have to stop giving them the time of day, for ourselves. They don't realize that they have truly lost when people stop giving them advice or criticism. You know the relationship is over when the other party has zero interest in even engaging in any capacity.
