Security that depends on heroics does not scale. The highest-leverage move is making the easy path the safe path. ## Put controls where work already happens Static analysis, dependency scanning, secret detection, and policy checks belong in pull requests and pipelines, not in a late-stage checklist nobody reads. ## Templates beat tickets Golden-path service templates should ship with identity patterns, logging baselines, and least-privilege defaults. Teams should opt out deliberately, not invent insecure baselines by accident. ## Measure early findings Track how often issues are caught in CI versus production. If most findings arrive after release, your delivery path is not doing its job.