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Digital Bushido

The self-assessment

Twenty-four statements about how your team actually works — three per virtue, rated on how often they are true. It runs entirely in your browser; nothing is sent anywhere, and the result lives in a link you own.

Answer every statement. Your result appears when all twenty-four are rated.

The scale

  1. 0/3Gi: 0 answered of 3
  2. 0/3Yū: 0 answered of 3
  3. 0/3Jin: 0 answered of 3
  4. 0/3Rei: 0 answered of 3
  5. 0/3Makoto: 0 answered of 3
  6. 0/3Meiyo: 0 answered of 3
  7. 0/3Chūgi: 0 answered of 3
  8. 0/3Jisei: 0 answered of 3

0 answered of 24

01 / 08 · Virtue

Gi 義 — Integrity / rectitude

  1. Every production change can be traced to a named person through logs or signed commits.
  2. When someone approves a security exception or accepts a risk, their name is recorded alongside the decision.
  3. Risk acceptances and control exceptions are agreed verbally or in chat, with no durable record of who decided.[reverse-scored] Read carefully — for this statement, "always" counts against you.

02 / 08 · Virtue

Yū 勇 — Courage

  1. The team runs threat hunts that look for activity no existing alert would catch.
  2. Analysts escalate a suspicious signal before they can fully reproduce or prove it.
  3. Investigations stall until someone can produce conclusive proof that an incident is real.[reverse-scored] Read carefully — for this statement, "always" counts against you.

03 / 08 · Virtue

Jin 仁 — Benevolence

  1. Before a control ships, someone checks how it affects the daily work of the people bound by it.
  2. When users report that a control blocks legitimate work, the team adjusts the control rather than the users.
  3. People routinely share credentials or route around a control to get their work done.[reverse-scored] Read carefully — for this statement, "always" counts against you.

04 / 08 · Virtue

Rei 礼 — Respect

  1. Access grants are scoped to what the role needs and are reviewed on a set schedule.
  2. Standing administrative rights exist that no one has reviewed in the last year.[reverse-scored] Read carefully — for this statement, "always" counts against you.
  3. Engineers request temporary elevation for a task and give it up once the task is done.

05 / 08 · Virtue

Makoto 誠 — Sincerity

  1. The asset inventory is reconciled against what is actually deployed on a regular basis.
  2. Compliance dashboards are trusted without checking whether the data feeding them is complete.[reverse-scored] Read carefully — for this statement, "always" counts against you.
  3. Reports to leadership state what the evidence shows, including the findings nobody wants to hear.

06 / 08 · Virtue

Meiyo 名誉 — Honour

  1. The team patches, reviews access, and investigates control failures without waiting to be asked.
  2. Security work spikes in the weeks before an audit and drops once it passes.[reverse-scored] Read carefully — for this statement, "always" counts against you.
  3. Internal reviews find and record problems that no external auditor had flagged.

07 / 08 · Virtue

Chūgi 忠義 — Loyalty

  1. People report their own mistakes and suspicious activity without fear of blame.
  2. Staff challenge an unsafe change even when it is inconvenient or comes from someone senior.
  3. Security expectations are enforced mainly through fear of punishment.[reverse-scored] Read carefully — for this statement, "always" counts against you.

08 / 08 · Virtue

Jisei 自制 — Self-control

  1. Significant changes go through review and have a documented rollback plan before they ship.
  2. Emergency fixes are applied straight to production and written up afterwards, if at all.[reverse-scored] Read carefully — for this statement, "always" counts against you.
  3. Temporary exceptions have expiry dates and are actually removed when they lapse.