I’ll never forget a question that stopped me dead in my tracks early on in my days teaching the official SABSA Foundation course: “But, how are we supposed to figure out what the organization does?” a budding enterprise security architect piped up when we were going through the details of the How column. And it […]
Bite-sized agile security
Turning theory into practice is always tricky—especially when it’s your first time. And with security architecture, the biggest problems you have aren’t really about security architecture at all. They’re about dealing with all the other problems that you have to suddenly stop ignoring if you’re going to change the way security is actually delivered. Because […]
Policy grinder
Polices. Everybody has them, and whether they’re good or bad is actually irrelevant. Because if you want to practice real security architecture in your organization, you’re going to have to eventually bite the bullet and do something with them. If you want to keep them, you have to be able to prove they actually support […]
Remember who built the spacecraft that put men on the moon?
Nope? Well, neither do I, actually. But we all remember that in 1969 the United States put the first men on the moon. The name of the company was actually two different ones: the command module was built by North American Aviation of P-51, B-25 and F-86 fame, and the lunar module was built by […]
Winning your own architecture wars
I want to tell you a little story about this guy – he was a bit geeky, loved comic books and sci-fi – and he had this crazy idea that was basically *guaranteed* to fail—at least as far as most people were concerned, anyway. But this geeky, highly introverted guy…he just wouldn’t give up, and, […]
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