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December 4, 2019

When the “gold standard” turns out to be the foil wrapper off a 25¢ piece of chocolate

Funnily enough, just like with governance itself, there’s both good and bad guidance about governance. Now, “bad” may be in the eye of the beholder for sure, so on this Turkey-day in the US, I’m going to briefly go hunting some sacred cows instead of flightless birds. When I was a kid, my parents used […]

Article by Andrew Townley / Archistry Daily / Agile Security, COBIT, Governance, RACI, Security Decisions, Security Governance

December 3, 2019

The Organizational Governance Mapper 9000

One of the shows my kids like to watch is Rusty Rivets, where Rusty and his friend Ruby and their team of robots create all kinds of crazy machines out of recycled parts to solve problems (and most of the time, problems they’ve inadvertently created for themselves). For example, Rusty and Ruby get his great […]

Article by Andrew Townley / Archistry Daily / Governance, RACI, Security Architecture, Security Decisions, Security Governance

December 2, 2019

Set in stone or styrofoam?

That’s really the question we need to answer when we’re looking to identify the decisions we associate with any individual owner in our complex web of organizational governance. But, like so many other things, we often don’t ask the right question, or, people’s default psychological tendencies make it hard for themselves to know the difference. […]

Article by Andrew Townley / Archistry Daily / Agile Security, Governance, Security Decisions

November 28, 2019

How do I know if I can trust you?

Trust. It’s a funny thing, really. And, maybe it’s something that we don’t really think about too much…or often enough. Yet, trust is really at the foundation of what we do every day as security professionals. Trust is our currency. On one level, our organization trusts us to keep them safe what they’re off slaying […]

Article by Andrew Townley / Archistry Daily / Agile Security, Security Architecture, Security Governance, Trust

November 25, 2019

Cutting through the business-driven bullshite like a hot knife through butter

As you might remember, the subject of the next Security Sanity™ print newsletter is all about security governance, and, governance in general within the concepts and foundational rules established by SABSA. And in talking to people about it a lot of the time, we get tangled up in assumptions about what we really mean when […]

Article by Andrew Townley / Archistry Daily / Agile Security, Business Alignment, Business-Driven Security, SABSA, Security Governance, TOGAF

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