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July 9, 2024

If you want better security, you’d better have a better security architecture

No. I’m not talking about infrastructure, vendors or kit on the ground. I’m talking about the way you *think* about security in your organization. There’s a reason CISOs and the security professionals that work for them are overwhelmed: They’re in the trenches, fighting the bad guys, overwhelmed with the alerts flying at them like angry […]

Article by Andrew Townley / Archistry Daily / Enterprise Secure by Design, SbD, Secure by Design, Security Architecture, Warfare, WWI

May 28, 2024

The ultimate security song to keep you focused on what you’re doing

“Come on tell me who are youOh, I really wanna know” If there was ever one song recorded that captured the essence of what we do as security, I’d have to give it to the classic “Who Are You” by the Who—especially after the deep dive into thinking about authentication and access control I did […]

Article by Andrew Townley / Archistry Daily / Agile Security, Leadership, SABSA, Security Customers, Stakeholder Engagement

May 27, 2024

Security heroes

The cynical definition of a “hero” is one I remember spouting off in meetings not so many years ago. I was a bit more jaded then. Maybe I had a reason, but maybe I didn’t. Looking back on it now, I’m actually not sure. But I do remember what I said about heroes on more […]

Article by Andrew Townley / Archistry Daily / Agile Security, Effective Security, Leadership, Transactional Analysis

May 21, 2024

There’s always a people problem

One of the key skills you really need to have if you’re going to be able to excel in any kind of strategic role, and I don’t care if that means you’re building a business, building a security program or building security architecture—it’s all related. And that relationship is something  that many people fail to […]

Article by Andrew Townley / Archistry Daily / Stakeholder Relationships, Strategy, Systems Thinking

September 8, 2023

Putting your data flow diagrams out to pasture…for good

May 31, 2020 If there was a popularity contest among all artifacts you might happen to unearth if you went digging for some glimpses of the architecture in your organization, the data flow diagram (DFD) would probably be the star of the High School football team, driving the red-orange Camaro with the T-tops, and dating […]

Article by Andrew Townley / Archistry Daily / Cybersecurity, Professional Development, Security Architecture, Software Architects, Software Engineer

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