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October 31, 2019

Ever wanted a SABSA vocabulary for the CIS20?

It seems like you can’t swing a cat without bumping into the CIS20 when you talk to people about their security programs. It’s one of the things that comes up far more often than ISO 27000, and even more often than the NIST CSF, but that seems to be changing a little. I have to […]

Article by Andrew Townley / Archistry Daily / Agile Security, Attributes, CIS20, Control Library, Domains, Physical Architecture, SABSA, Security Architecture, Service Catalog, TDG

October 30, 2019

“Just winging it” is for birds, not your security program

How much of your security control environment has been driven by, basically, “it seemed like there was a gap” or, “it seemed like a good idea” instead of being traceably linked to real business requirements? Now, how many of those controls are the same ones that the user community complains the most about? Hmmm….any correlation? […]

Article by Andrew Townley / Archistry Daily / Agile Security, Attributes, Credibility, Domains, SABSA, Security Architecture, TDG, Traceability

October 29, 2019

Avoiding being n-trouble thanks to tomorrow’s security frameworks

Back in the day when I was a wet-behind-the-ears CS student with a 14.4K modem and a NeXTcube on my desk (yes, I was very lucky, and it was a helluva upgrade from my previous Zenith Z-183 laptop), I discovered the pbmplus library. I actually don’t remember why I needed it, but it was the […]

Article by Andrew Townley / Archistry Daily / Agile Security, Attributes, Domains, ISO27001, NIST CSF, SABSA, Security Architecture, TDG

October 28, 2019

Are you the Evil Security Fairy?

Today, we have back-to-back school birthday parties for both of the youngsters. First it was for my daughter in the morning, and next, we’re going to one for our son. I guess some of the musical genes did pass through after all, because both of them love to sing when they’re in the car…and sometimes, […]

Article by Andrew Townley / Archistry Daily / Agile Security, Little Bunny Foo Foo, SABSA, Security Architecture, Stakeholder Credibility, TDG

October 27, 2019

The 2-Hour ESA: fact or fiction?

How long would it take you to create an actionable enterprise security architecture from scratch for a project charter for an organization you’ve never seen and have no real industry knowledge about? One of the detailed examples I mentioned before that’s included in the book I’m letting you decide whether I should write is the […]

Article by Andrew Townley / Archistry Daily / Agile Security, Case Study, ESA, SABSA, Security Architecture, TDG

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