CVE Remediation Mandate with Termination Consequence

December 31, 2025 at 1:26 AMstrategycritical

Situation

Mandated CVE remediation as top priority and made clear that Trinity or Jeff will have their employment terminated due to lack of progress on adopting automation tools. This termination is intended to signal to the rest of the team the grave importance of improving how this work is done.

Reasoning

Deep disappointment with teams slow adoption of Maxs CVE automation tools. The lack of urgency represents a failure to embrace critical status-quo-changing technology. Terminating employment sends an unmistakable message to the rest of the team about the importance of this initiative. Thousands of open CVEs shipping is unacceptable for customer security.

Additional Context

Also discussed potential $20k bounty as carrot for building end-to-end system closing 3% of open CVEs by Jan 15. The stick is now much more clear and specific - actual termination, not just a warning. Strategic trade-off accepts 5% error rate to eliminate massive vulnerability backlog.

People Involved

Nathan Blackham, Trinity Quirk, Jeff Uphoff, Max Spevack

Source

reflection

AI Confidence

90%

Related Context

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Nathan <> Peter Weekly 1:1

fathom

Peter mandated CVE remediation as top priority and is prepared to use carrots and sticks - specifically terminating Trinity or Jeff to demonstrate grave importance to the team.

Follow-up Todos

Suggest follow-up todo

Report CVE remediation/NARF adoption status at next department heads meeting

From Leadership Roundtable. Greg and leadership are tracking this initiative.

Why: You made a strong mandate on CVE remediation with personnel consequences. Leadership expects visibility on progress. Failing to report could undermine the urgency signal you are trying to send.

Outcome

★★★★★(5/5)

Successful - compliance achieved, mandate worked as intended

Recorded on January 12, 2026

Decision ID: bf8313d4-1865-4f0c-b459-6edde2d05b2f