May 29, 2020 If you’ve ever seen any footage of the American West, you’ve probably seen one or more pictures or videos of prairie dogs popping out of their holes. This is often followed by something scientifically described as “jump-yipping”. The science behind this says that it’s basically a group-based security control – of the […]
The app with a bigger ego than Tony Stark
May 27, 2020 If you look at the stats on who’s making all the noise in the DevOps/DevSecOps space – at least those who care to comment on some of the industry surveys – 60% of the adoption of DevOps is in organizations with under $1 billion in revenue. Now, you might be wondering why […]
Reading between the lines of the ubiquitous stick figure
May 26, 2020 Maybe it’s not every time you get some kind of project solution architecture in your inbox, but most of the time, there’s bound to be at least one stick figure in the picture. Maybe it’s labeled “customer”, maybe it’s “user”, maybe it’s even something a bit more racy…like “administrator”. But, it’s […]
Some stick figures, a cloud, a cylinder and a brick wall
May 24, 2020 “Whaddya mean, ‘That’s not architecture’? What else could you possibly need to know, Mr. Smarty-pants Security Architect?” If not the words, we’ve probably all seen the diagrams. Often PowerPoint, sometimes Visio, and only very rarely created in some kind of formalized automation tools, in some organizations, this is, literally, the state […]
Sometimes, knowing what it isn’t is more important
I’m not sure if it’s been said before or not, but ultimately, life itself is essentially a classification problem. Every day we’re faced with many situations, people, actions, events and observations, and how we choose to interpret those is fundamentally based on how we classify them. Because if we can’t classify them effectively, then we […]
