Vulnerability Remediation using the “Ford Method”. There is a popular story in the Russian segment of the Internet. Allegedly, an experiment was carried out at Henry Ford’s plant: conveyor repair workers were paid only for the time they were in the break room. And as soon as the conveyor stopped 🚨 and the repair workers went to fix it, they stopped getting paid. Therefore, they did their work quickly and efficiently, so that they could quickly (and for a long time) return to the break room and start earning money again. 👷♂️🪙
I did not find any reliable evidence of this. 🤷♂️
But what if the specialists responsible for vulnerability remediation were paid only for the time when vulnerabilities are not detected on their hosts. 🤔 This can have a very positive impact on the speed and quality of remediation. Unsolvable problems will quickly become solvable, and automation of testing and deployment of updates will develop at the fastest pace. 😏
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