…and define whether you’re just playing with a security architecture modeling tool or you’re actually building security architectures that can keep your organizations safe and enable them to be successful.
Yesterday I talked about the whole “because…” bit of security architecture, and there were a couple of things I didn’t tell you—frankly, because it would’ve made the email even longer than it already was.
So today, I’m going to circle back and touch one of the (actually many) things I left out of yesterday’s email. It’s the corollary to the “because…” bit—and, like teaching your kids how to be successful adults, it’s also something that is an essential quality of the successful security architect.
You see, not very many architectures, at least the documentation, follow the advice of Paul Clements from the SEI and include the rationale, assumptions and the expectations of how the architecture will evolve over time. As security architects that come late to the party, e.g., we’re the, “Hey, we didn’t write it. We inherited it,” crowd in many cases.
So…what are you to do?
Fortunately, the answer can be found in one of the 14 Practices of the Agile Security System™ that are embedded in the whole 7 week experience of the Building Effective Security Programs course I’m running again in February. And that practice is:
Practice 3, Ask great questions.
Because in the absence of being told what you need to know to pick up someone else’s work and be able to build on it effectively…
…you’ve gotta know you should ask the questions you need to ask to figure it out.
If you don’t, at best, you have to spend a lot of time re-engineering their architectural decision-making process to try and figure out why they did what they did—
On your own, and in a vacuum.
And at the worst, you don’t know why, and you don’t bother to ask, and…
…you might end up being the Principal Obstructor of the business instead of the Principal Security Architect.
If you want to learn the practices and principles of a system designed to keep you safe and make sure that you do all you need to do to enable and protect your organization…
…then you still have until Friday to join the February cohort of Building Effective Security Architectures at a whopping 60% less than everyone else will pay later to get the same guidance, instruction, peer-reviewed feedback of your knowledge and skill development, weekly, live Q&A calls and basically, the most practical, hands-on application I can give you outside of our much more expensive coaching and mentoring program.
Whether you do or whether you don’t is entirely up to you. The link to register is here:
And if there’s anything you want to know that isn’t covered by these emails, the sales page or the detailed course schedule on the check-out page, then please feel free to reply to this email and ask away.
Stay safe,
ast
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Andrew S. Townley
Archistry Chief Executive
