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April 15, 2020

Technological or biological, it still all boils down to access control

My wife showed me a really cool video today summarizing a lot of pretty heavy information about COVID-19. If you don’t want to read the rest of today’s email and simply watch the video, that’s fine[1]. I think it’s excellent, and we can talk about more security stuff tomorrow. Otherwise, let’s get on with it. […]

Article by Andrew Townley / Archistry Daily / Access Control, Agile Security, ESLC, Security Architecture

April 14, 2020

Pruning phishing exposure with psychology

Security awareness is a bit of a bitch. We know we need it, and we know that people don’t really want the typical kind of “security awareness” training under the best of times. And you can pretty-well, damn-near guarantee the last thing people want to hear about right now is a bunch of COVID-driven, mandatory […]

Article by Andrew Townley / Archistry Daily / Agile Security, ESLC, Phishing, Psychology, Security Architecture, Security Awareness

April 13, 2020

Conference calls and crying babies

Welcome to the new reality of WFH, folks! If you were fortunate enough to be able to already have a routine of working from home before the pathogen hit the propeller, then you’re already well ahead of the curve. However, the reality is that for many people in many organizations – especially security teams – […]

Article by Andrew Townley / Archistry Daily / Agile Security, Effective Security, Security Budgets, WFH

April 12, 2020

How to handle COVID-driven cloud questions

Instead of taking the day off for parades and pubs (especially if you’re in Dublin), this St. Patricks Day may find you faced with a whole new array of cloud security questions driven by the work-from-home directives and necessities of the communities in which you live and work. And, even if things have started to […]

Article by Andrew Townley / Archistry Daily / Agile Security, Cloud Security, Crisis Management, ESLC, Policy Exceptions, Psychology, Security Architecture, Security Policy, Security Skills, Stakeholder Engagement, Stakeholder Relationships

April 11, 2020

Predicting – and coping with – pandemic panic

As of last night’s Presidential address to the Republic of South Africa, we’ve now joined the nations experiencing an official national emergency. And, like other places in the world who are already suffering much worse than we are, we too now are starting to experience pandemic panic buying and empty supermarket shelves of everything from […]

Article by Andrew Townley / Archistry Daily / Agile Security, BCP, Crisis Management, ESLC, Pandemic Planing, Psychology

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