"Judgment erodes when leaders treat standards as shields.
A standard is a commitment you make to your future self. In a security concern that conflicts with delivery pressure, it exists so you do not have to reinvent judgment every time the room is loud.
In a security concern that conflicts with delivery pressure, exceptions accumulate in private. The organization learns that standards are negotiable and that the real rule is persuasion. Keep it calm, concrete, and small; the goal is a move you can repeat, not a speech you can admire. Define the decision rights before the crisis, or the crisis will define them for you.
W. Edwards Deming is useful here because it forces precision. Write the bar as a yes/no check, then name the exception trigger and decision owner. Stop while it is still simple.