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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 Leave a Comment

May 15, 2020

Breaking: security team survives recession

No, I don’t mean everyone on the team gets a side-hustle and funnels the proceeds to prop up the security budget—but, in some cases, I suppose truth has been known to be stranger than fiction. I mentioned this in passing the other day, but regardless of whether the economy springs immediately into shape (which ain’t […]

Article by Andrew Townley / Archistry Daily / Agile Security, BESA, Crisis Management, Economics, Security Architecture, Security Budgets, Security Controls, Security Value Leave a Comment

May 14, 2020

How to avoid bad things happening

This weekend, as you do after 5 weeks of the whole family under one roof, my wife decided that it was time to clean out the garage. And, apart from needing to do a bit of real-world architecture archaeology on my son’s disassembled Hot Wheels garage to get it back together correctly, things generally went […]

Article by Andrew Townley / Archistry Daily / Agile Security, BESA, Credibility, SABSA, Security Architecture, Security Architecture Skills Leave a Comment

May 13, 2020

Are you wrapped around the axle of security?

I have to admit that “wrapped around the axle” was a phrase I hadn’t heard until almost two years ago, but since then, I’ve found it a pretty good metaphor to describe what can happen if we get lost in the turbulent waters of our own, overly-emotional thinking. Now, if you’re new – and a few […]

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May 12, 2020

How to turn 53,426 words of security policy into usable security architecture

Here’s an interesting question for you to think about: What’s the relationship between security policy and security architecture in your organization? I mean, how related and/or connected do you think they are? True story: In one of the organizations I work with, they actually had a fairly good structure and scope to their information security […]

Article by Andrew Townley / Archistry Daily / Agile Security, BESA, Policy Architecture, Policy Engineering, SABSA, Security Policy Leave a Comment

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