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March 10, 2019

Are you drinking the “Zero Trust” Kool-Aid from a poisoned chalice?

I subscribe to a lot of lists. All kinds of lists, actually, but of course, I subscribe to a lot of the “security” lists out there to see what people are talking about and keep up to date with things—just like you do. However, I’m seeing an uptick in the “Zero Trust” phrase in the […]

Article by Andrew Townley / Archistry Daily / SABSA, Security Architecture, Security Domains, Security Governance, Threat Models, Trust Models, Zero Trust

March 9, 2019

Zorked: what to do when you’re standing at that infernal fork in the road

Now, many of you probably won’t remember a game called Zork, or the whole slew of text-based Infocomm adventure game titles (of which I owned – legitimately – several). And the one that started them all was Zork. At some point, you would come to a fork in the road, and you’d have to make […]

Article by Andrew Townley / Archistry Daily / Decisions, Frost, Strategic Thinking, The Road Not Taken, Zork

March 8, 2019

The Ethan Hunt rule of risk assessments

You remember all those scenes from the movies: Ethan Hunt sitting in First Class of a 747 and gets handed some kind of recording device with an intelligence briefing about his mission, should he choose to accept it. What happens next is always the same: “This message will self-destruct in 5 seconds.” And then in […]

Article by Andrew Townley / Archistry Daily / Ethan Hunt, Mission Impossible, Risk Assessment, Security Governance

March 7, 2019

But, I’m doing these things already…

The comment I received most recently about the program was effectively, “I’ve done X, Y and Z, and I’m in pretty good shape. I don’t see what the program will do that I’m not already doing right now.” So this is going to be a pretty short email about specifically what the person was asking. […]

Article by Andrew Townley / Archistry Daily / Coaching Program, Multipler, Q&A

March 6, 2019

When to stop learning and start doing

It’s actually a disease. It’s a disease right up there with analysis paralysis. It’s the disease of “I know I need to do X, but wow…there’s so much to learn before I can even get started.” It’s actually a rather common variant of something my mother used to call “want-itis.” “Andrew, you have want-itis! Everything […]

Article by Andrew Townley / Archistry Daily / Analysis Paralysis, Fence-sitting, Leadership, Want-itis

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