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February 28, 2020

Why slacker security architects are the best

There’s a word that pretty-much describes most of the architects I know. Pedantic. And if you subset that list to the ones that are security architects, then I’d say that gives you something like Pedantic++. Because what we’re really taught to create as security architects are rules based on all the minor details of all […]

Article by Andrew Townley / Archistry Daily / Agile Security, Being a Security Architect, BESA

February 27, 2020

“Mind blowing” security architecture

Today’s been a bit hectic for me, so I’m going keep this one short. It’s inspired by a conversation I just had with someone we’ve worked with previously who reminded me that of all the stuff I’ve talked about so far, one of the the…well, many things I haven’t yet talked about that you’ll learn […]

Article by Andrew Townley / Archistry Daily / Agile Security, BESA, SABSA, Security Architecture

February 26, 2020

Busting the Zero-Trust drug dealers

This “zero trust” thing is really starting to get out of hand. It’s clearly the newest security drug everyone seems to be pimping on every street corner—from vendors to advisors to the media. “Pssst….hey buddy. I know they say you can’t buy it, but…wanna fix?” The reason it’s so important to get these low-class dealers […]

Article by Andrew Townley / Archistry Daily / Agile Security, BESA, Domains, Hype-Busting, SABSA, Security Architecture, Zero Trust

February 25, 2020

The mad magic of middle-out architecture

You might remember me talking about the 3 different kinds of security architecture you’re really going to need to build – or, more correctly, discover – as part of the process I call architecture archaeology. Two of them are probably pretty-familiar to you, because we tend to use them all the time as either excuses […]

Article by Andrew Townley / Archistry Daily / Agile Security, BESA, Bottom-Up, Middle-Out, SABSA, Security Architecture, Top-Down

February 24, 2020

Confessions of a process virgin

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 […]

Article by Andrew Townley / Archistry Daily / Agile Security, BESA, Business Processes, SABSA, Security Architecture

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