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May 30, 2020

If you can’t talk about the problem…

It doesn’t happen too often, but it happens enough to be something I want to mention today. The thing about problems – and especially problems we’re trying to solve as security professionals – is that it’s very easy to hide behind the veil of confidentiality as an excuse to avoid solving the problem. Because, if […]

Article by Andrew Townley / Archistry Daily / Agile Security, Mindset, Security Architecture

May 29, 2020

So, what is it you’re doing every day?

Over time, I’ve learned to ask the above quote pretty early when I start working seriously with a security team. And the main reason I ask it is that, once pressed to answer, almost every security team I’ve ever met is surprised by the answers they find. Yesterday – well, in the wee hours of […]

Article by Andrew Townley / Archistry Daily / Agile Security, Security Architecture, Security Automation, Security Strategy, Security Unicorns

May 28, 2020

Forging your own Security Avengers

Wanna find a blueprint for a truly effective cybersecurity team? You could do a lot worse than watching the original Avengers movie a few (dozen) times. Over the weekend, my kids (5 and 3) were on a bit of superhero kick, and I realized again how brilliant the first Avengers movie was—not just in the […]

Article by Andrew Townley / Archistry Daily / Agile Security, Mission and Purpose, Security Architecture, Security Leadership

May 27, 2020

The horse called Architecture is gonna race, no matter what

One of the things I saw recently was a clip from the 2017 Royal Ascot race where a horse called Growl somehow unseated his jockey in the starting gate, yet he ended up running the whole race solo. It’s kind of an amusing story, and one that shows the power of constant training, repetition and […]

Article by Andrew Townley / Archistry Daily / Agile Security, BESA, SABSA, Security Architecture

May 26, 2020

Playing well with the good little ERM children

Two of the potentially challenging things about doing information and cyber security risk assessments are being able to easily leverage any existing risk assessments done by other areas of the organization and being able to integrate the risk assessments we do with the existing risk ratings already being compiled and aggregated by the ERM team—assuming […]

Article by Andrew Townley / Archistry Daily / Agile Security, DevSecOps, ERM, Key Risk Indicators, Risk Appetite, Risk Assessment, Risk Capacity, SABSA

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