In today’s long list of emails was a link to an interview from RSA with Jeff Reed, Cisco’s CISO talking about why complexity is a top challenge for CISOs. Those of you who remember some of my previous emails – especially those talking about the launch of The Agile Security System™ itself last July – […]
I want it all, and I want it now
Classic Queen lyrics to introduce our next deadly sin of security architecture: greed. But this might not be the greed you think of first. I’m not talking about being greedy about getting our grubby security mitts on all the budget we can spend – or all the resources we can hire (assuming you’re not chasing mythical […]
Burping security architecture
Believe me, I know how it goes. You get a new toy, find a new show, buy a new book, and that’s it. You’re obsessed with it—at least, if it’s any good, or it’s something you’ve actually wanted. If not, you take it out and play with it for exactly 5 minutes, and it either […]
All for the want of architecture
There’s a quote by a long-dead Unitarian minister named William Alger that gives us a good introduction to today’s security architecture sin: wrath. It goes: “Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason.” And, as far as we’re concerned, you can quite easily replace the word “reason” in Alger’s quote with the […]
The architecture before the fall
It’s one thing to be proud of the work you do, but it’s a whole other thing to be so in love with it that you start idolizing the work and forget… …what the work is actually for. And this goes as much for assuming people can immediately see the value of what you do […]
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