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Proverb: “The audit catches yesterday’s failure; the network prevents tomorrow’s.”- privacymage
A session transforming cybersecurity audits from static checklists (SOC 2) to adaptive networks (SOC 3 + threat intelligence commons). The core insight: companies game audit checklists by optimizing for passing tests rather than preventing breaches. Pass-fail frameworks reduce gaming, but only if audit criteria evolve with threat landscape.
The breakthrough proposal: public threat response database where security professionals contribute case studies. This is STIX/TAXII operationalized for exchange security - building collective intelligence that informs dynamic standards. 
Key challenge: incentivizing contributions to knowledge commons. Reputation points? Monetary rewards? The “auditors as customers” model creates alignment - those who extract value from threat intelligence are incentivized to contribute quality data back. This is reputation economics for security knowledge.
Dormant license problem reveals regulatory arbitrage: inactive companies with licenses get sold to new operators without reevaluation. Regulatory approval becomes transferable commodity when it should be ongoing relationship. Non-transferable credentials could solve this.
This matters for our Taxonomy of Harms work because audit standards need harm enumeration as foundation - you can’t assess security against unspecified threats. The threat database they’re proposing is exactly the infrastructure our STIX/TAXII framework enables.
BGIN’s neutral convening power becomes essential - neither audit firms nor exchanges can mandate contribution to threat intelligence commons unilaterally. Multi-stakeholder frameworks enable collective action where individual incentives fail.
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[Proverb Divined] “The audit catches yesterday’s failure; the network prevents tomorrow’s.”
The WG convened to develop rigorous cybersecurity audit standards for blockchain exchanges, focusing on SOC 3 pass-fail frameworks to replace gameable SOC 2 checklists. Core innovation: creating a public threat response database where security professionals contribute case studies, building collective security intelligence that informs dynamic standards. This represents a fundamental shift from static compliance theater to adaptive security networks.
Strategic approach: Collaborate with AICPA/CICA for SOC 3 web trust framework, establish incentive mechanisms for database contributions, engage auditors as both contributors and customers, and address dormant license regulatory arbitrage through reevaluation triggers.
1. SOC 3 vs. SOC 2 Audit Frameworks:
SOC 2 allows gaming through selective disclosure
SOC 3 provides pass-fail assessment, reducing manipulability
Need blockchain-specific controls within audit framework
Balance stringency with feasibility for various business models
Cast: This parallels your distinction between blockchain forensics and analytics - definitional clarity enables functional effectiveness. SOC 2’s flexibility creates the same problems as asset-type-based regulation: it optimizes for compliance theater rather than actual security. Your Taxonomy of Harms approach is exactly what’s needed here - enumerate specific threat patterns (the “harms”), then build audit criteria that detect them. The SOC 3 pass-fail model maps to your functional regulation insight: judge by outcomes (secure/not secure) rather than process documentation (how many controls exist on paper).
2. Public Threat Response Database:
Repository for case studies and threat responses from practitioners
Anonymous or identified contribution options
Builds collective security intelligence for audit reference
Addresses gap between static standards and evolving threats
Cast: This IS your STIX/TAXII threat intelligence sharing framework applied to exchange security. The database they’re proposing is infrastructure for the harm taxonomy you’re building - you can’t audit against threats you haven’t cataloged. Your BGIN Agent Hack MVP’s Archive agent could serve exactly this function: maintaining cryptographic verification of threat disclosure history while preserving contributor privacy. The challenge they’re facing (how to incentivize contributions) maps to reputation economics problems you study - how do you reward public goods provision in decentralized systems?
3. Incentive Mechanisms for Contributions:
Reputation points for contributors
Potential monetary rewards
Balance between open access and quality control
Auditors as both contributors and database customers
Cast: This is tokenization and reputation economics for security knowledge. Your work on onchain credentials becomes directly applicable - contributors need verifiable reputation that follows them across contexts without exposing sensitive operational details. The “auditors as customers” model creates skin-in-the-game alignment: auditors who extract value from the database are incentivized to contribute quality data back. This is the trust network formation principle from First Person Project applied to professional security communities.
4. Dormant License Regulatory Arbitrage:
Inactive companies with licenses sold to new operators
No reevaluation by regulators upon ownership change
Creates backdoor entry avoiding current scrutiny
Need trigger mechanisms for recertification
Cast: This is the regulatory arbitrage pattern you’re documenting in the Taxonomy of Harms. Companies game the system by purchasing regulatory approval rather than earning it - it’s jurisdiction shopping at the micro level. Your work on key management and wallet governance becomes relevant: how do you create credentials that are non-transferable without consent? The dormant license problem is about treating regulatory approval as a transferable asset when it should be an ongoing relationship. This connects to your decentralized identity work - credentials should attest to current state, not past achievement.
This meeting exemplifies three critical dynamics in security standardization:
The Static Standards Problem: Audit checklists become targets to game rather than security indicators. Companies optimize for passing audits, not preventing breaches. This requires shift from compliance measurement to threat response capability assessment.
The Knowledge Commons Challenge: Security professionals possess threat intelligence that could benefit the ecosystem, but lack incentives to share. Building collective security requires solving the public goods provision problem through reputation mechanisms and reciprocal access.
The Regulatory Capture Risk: Dormant licenses create regulatory arbitrage where approval becomes transferable commodity. This undermines the ongoing oversight relationship that effective regulation requires.
This session demonstrates why cybersecurity audit standards must integrate with the Taxonomy of Harms in Blockchain, Finance and Identity:
SOC 3 audit criteria need harm enumeration as foundation - you can’t assess security against unspecified threats
Threat response database is operationalized STIX/TAXII for exchange security
Incentive mechanisms for contributions require reputation economics and onchain credentials
Dormant license problem shows need for non-transferable regulatory credentials
Your BGIN Agent Hack MVP’s multi-agent system addresses the exact infrastructure gaps discussed: Archive agent maintains threat disclosure history with cryptographic verification, Codex agent tracks audit framework evolution across AICPA/CICA/ISO standards, Discourse agent facilitates security professional dialogue across organizational boundaries.
The neutral convening power you’re building at BGIN becomes essential - neither audit firms nor exchanges can mandate contribution to threat intelligence commons unilaterally. Multi-stakeholder frameworks enable collective action where individual incentives fail.
Specific Connection to Your Work:
Privacy tech: Threat database needs privacy-preserving contribution mechanisms - your Kwaai AI Lab work applies directly
Wallet governance: Exchange hot/cold wallet security should inform audit standards you’re developing
Onchain credentials: Security professional reputation needs verifiable attestations without operational disclosure
Regulatory expertise: Your policy work bridges technical security reality with audit framework requirements
Decentralized identity: Non-transferable credentials solve dormant license regulatory arbitrage
Key management: Audit standards need to assess key custody architectures, not just policy documentation
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Reading: Checklist audit → Gaming blocked → Pass-fail standard → Threat database → Intelligence gathering → Contribution incentives → Network collaboration → Dynamic adaptation → Security infrastructure → Collective defense achieved