Similar problem when if you're an innocent software engineer who introduces a bug, the security people will find it, make up a fancy website and logo for it, go around giving conference talks about it, get bounties (or not), give each other prizes, post on Mastodon about it from their accounts with cool hacker nicknames, presumably go have Vegas orgies, etc. Nobody's doing that for you.

I think they could use a little more ritualized shaming: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leveling_mechanism

Only Linus is brave enough to do this.

that's the thing though: security teams composed of grizzled talent absolutely benefit from going to conferences. they bring back what they've learned and leverage their new connections to bring more value to the company. so now you've got this industry-wide norm that the security guys are kind of out of pocket and spend a bunch of time at conferences, but they know their shit and protect the infra so it's all good. if it worked at the last X companies $CISO worked for so they're going to be hesitant to drop the hammer on the netsec team networking.