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August 17, 2019

Avoiding the lava of stakeholder interviewing

Today was the “back to school” night for my son’s school, and one of the things we got to see was what they were doing in the new classroom, and in particular, the “identity board” project they’d been working on for the last week or so. And in the upper left corner was a picture […]

Article by Andrew Townley / Archistry Daily / Agile Security, Stakeholder Credibility, Stakeholder Engagement, Stakeholder Interviewing

August 16, 2019

Your organization is not a special snowflake

One of the things you always hear when you talk with the people in an organization about what it is, what it does and how it does it, you’ll always hear about how unique, different or just… SPECIAL… …that organization is in relation to other organizations on the planet, its peers, competitors and other places […]

Article by Andrew Townley / Archistry Daily / Agile Security, Baseline Perspectives, Models, Stakeholder Interviewing

August 15, 2019

Security mojo from a classic Steve Jobs response

I was filling in some blanks on the upcoming September issue of the Security Sanity newsletter when my Google-fu showed me something I’d heard about, but I’d never actually watched before. It was a clip of Steve Jobs taking a question at the 1997 Apple developer conference on why he killed OpenDoc as part of […]

Article by Andrew Townley / Archistry Daily / Agile Security, Customer Experience, NeXT, Stakeholder Engagement, Steve Jobs

August 14, 2019

Get yer assets outta my office!

It’s been an interesting few days, folks. I’ve had more than a few conversations with people about the role of security, talking to stakeholders and how to actually understand the worlds of security. And one of the things that I keep tripping over is that people have a very tactical view of security. Now, ok, […]

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

August 11, 2019

Unhappy security customers

I know that a lot of people just don’t get the whole “customers of security” vibe I keep yapping on about, and some people still say the primary job of security is the enforcer not the advisor—including a rather long and otherwise well-written LinkedIn post I read last night. The thing is, I just don’t […]

Article by Andrew Townley / Archistry Daily / Agile Security, Customer Loyalty, Customer Trust, Stakeholder Credibility, Stakeholder Engagement, Stakeholder Interviewing

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