One of the first things you tend to hear when you arrive in Africa – and South Africa, particularly – is the phrase, “Africa’s not for sissies.” And there’s good reason for this. The daily power cuts impacting the whole country, including the “Mother City” herself…a healthy population of poisonous snakes many of our friends […]
No pizzas and no chips
If you’ve been following along for even a little while, you might remember that I’ve been spending a lot of time back in Cape Town since about August. You might also remember a rant—er, a story or two about a thing called load shedding that they do in South Africa. Basically, it’s (generally) planned, neighborhood-wide […]
A tale of two banks (and 2 lessons for security architects)
You might remember that my mother has been visiting us since just before Christmas, and you might also remember that I’m from the US, so…that’s where she lives. Not only that, it’s where she banks and where she has her mobile phone service (unsurprisingly). Given the almost daily deafening stampede of credit card details we […]
Let there be Security Architecture!
Without a doubt, one of the biggest stumbling blocks for people attempting to create security architectures that align with the business, veritably scream the value they create and which underpin and drive the entirety of an effective security program that enables and protects the organization… Is getting started. Whatever your thoughts on religion might be, […]
Are you my kind of “security architect”?
Two conversations I’ve had in the last 5 days have prompted me to put more than a little thought into what my definition of a “security architect” actually is—especially given the nature of what Archistry does through our coaching, mentoring and training programs. The proliferation of definitions of “security architect” I talked about in the […]
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