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Formalize the Security Division's dogfooding program

Julie Davila requested to merge security-division-dogfooding-program into main

Why is this change being made?

Historically, dogfooding within the Security Division has not been handled through a formalized program which has likely limited the success of dogfooding efforts. Historical challenges include:

  1. No framework for how feature requests should be prioritized when they come from the Security Division which has led to some feature requests to indefinitely deferred to the future and the creation of multiple, custom built, tools which are used internally.
  2. No strategic or executive level view for product leadership to understand current adoption, challenges, and desires from the Security Division.
  3. Breakage of security processes as a result of bugs, poorly communicated breaking changes, and possibly other causal factors.

This MR is the first of many steps to help address the above challenges.

This is a work in progress

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  • Update file security-division-dogfooding.md

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