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July 20, 2019

Head in the clouds…or somewhere else?

One thing that surprises me more than it probably should when I speak with people about their security programs is how much “The Cloud” freaks them out. And, after speaking with them for a while, it’s clear they should be worried. But their habitual response to that worry is…you guessed it: “We brought in vendor/solution/tool […]

Article by Andrew Townley / Archistry Daily / Agile Security, Cloud Security, DevOps, DevSecOps, Security Architecture

July 19, 2019

Knowing who really pays your wages

The other day, I was reminded of this quote from Henry Ford: “It’s not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It’s the customer who pays the wages.” And he’s exactly right, whether the customer is the people who buy your organization’s products and services or whether the customer is the […]

Article by Andrew Townley / Archistry Daily / Agile Security, Customers

July 18, 2019

Is your SABSA stuck in the mud?

During the research I did last year reaching out to SABSA practitioners, one of the things that kept coming up over and over again was that people were having a really hard time trying to get started with SABSA in their own environments. And this isn’t just with people who take the course and try […]

Article by Andrew Townley / Archistry Daily / Agile SABSA, Agile Security, COSAC, SABSA, SABSA Iterations

July 17, 2019

Why Agile’s “people over process” works…sometimes

If you ask most people new to Agile (yes, there are still some of those around), and especially if they’ve been slogging it out in the trenches of long, grueling projects…and especially in the public sector arena, you’ll get an almost universal reaction: “Hell yeah! No more f—-ing process!” And it’s kinda understandable, because process […]

Article by Andrew Townley / Archistry Daily / Agile, Agile Manifesto, Agile Security, Habit, Skill

July 17, 2019

Detail junkies

Today, I indulged myself a little and took a break with the family since I spent almost all weekend pounding out the August newsletter. Now that it’s basically in the bag, I wanted to talk about something that I’d been beating around the bush about before, but even I wasn’t really quite aware of until […]

Article by Andrew Townley / Archistry Daily / Agile, Complexity, DevSecOps

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