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September 17, 2019

Ever find yourself singing’ the boogie robots blues?

Both of my small children love the Minions movies, so there’s a good chance that when they get to watch TV and have to agree on something they can watch together, it’s going to be a movie filled with little yellow people running around in goggles and overalls. And the other day when they were […]

Article by Andrew Townley / Archistry Daily / Agile Security, DevOps, Requirements Engineering

September 2, 2019

What was your “Sliding Doors” moment?

Everyone who is now a security professional has a story about how we got here. Some of us may have been on a direct path because we were basically pushed out of the womb being able to perfectly whistle-phreak your way into anywhere you wanted, and some of us came to it a bit more […]

Article by Andrew Townley / Archistry Daily / Career Path, Colombia, iSecurity Summit, Pay it Forward

August 29, 2019

Discovering the secret sauce of the organizatiosaurus—can you do it?

My son is on a bit of a dinosaur kick over the last few days. First it was the Lego version of Jurassic World on Netflix, and tonight, the book he picked was an amusing story called Tyrannosaurus Drip, where a reed-eating little guy who looks somewhat like a Parasaurolophus accidentally gets raised by a […]

Article by Andrew Townley / Archistry Daily / Agile Security, Customer Trust, Principle #2, Stakeholder Engagement, Stakeholder Interviewing

August 28, 2019

Are you still in the 74%?

According to some old research from Ponemon and F5 I recently rediscovered today, 74% of the respondents to a 2017 survey said that their security programs weren’t aligned with the objectives of the businesses they were trying to protect. And even today, I spoke to a very modern bank in the middle of a massive […]

Article by Andrew Townley / Archistry Daily / Agile Security, Customer Trust, Principle #2, Stakeholder Credibility, Stakeholder Engagement

August 24, 2019

Eating some “pause and reflect” dogfood

One thing that occurred to me this morning as I was working on something else I’ll share with you in a few weeks is that perhaps some of my last few emails have come across a little hard-assed. And if that’s the way you’ve felt, I’m not apologizing, but I am acknowledging that perhaps it’s […]

Article by Andrew Townley / Archistry Daily / Agile Security, Pause and Reflect, Practice 14, Stakeholder Relationships

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