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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

April 30, 2020

There are no style points in a crisis

That was just some of the advice from Jeff Immelt, former Chief Executive and Chairman of GE following Jack Welch. And if one word could define a good portion of his tenure at the helm, it would be crisis. So it was very interesting to hear his perspectives on leading through crisis on a WOBI […]

Article by Andrew Townley / Archistry Daily / Agile Security, Crisis Management, Security Leadership

April 23, 2020

Sure it’s bad…but is it bad enough to give up?

Nobody was really prepared for this. And, yes, by “this”, I mean the whole pandemic ‘pockyclypse we’re all living every day—while at the same time trying to not kill our housemates, family members, pets and whomever may be stuck under the same roof with us for a large number of days…with a large number of […]

Article by Andrew Townley / Archistry Daily / Agile Security, Confidence, Crisis Management, ESLC, Pandemic, Security Leadership

April 12, 2020

How to handle COVID-driven cloud questions

Instead of taking the day off for parades and pubs (especially if you’re in Dublin), this St. Patricks Day may find you faced with a whole new array of cloud security questions driven by the work-from-home directives and necessities of the communities in which you live and work. And, even if things have started to […]

Article by Andrew Townley / Archistry Daily / Agile Security, Cloud Security, Crisis Management, ESLC, Policy Exceptions, Psychology, Security Architecture, Security Policy, Security Skills, Stakeholder Engagement, Stakeholder Relationships

April 11, 2020

Predicting – and coping with – pandemic panic

As of last night’s Presidential address to the Republic of South Africa, we’ve now joined the nations experiencing an official national emergency. And, like other places in the world who are already suffering much worse than we are, we too now are starting to experience pandemic panic buying and empty supermarket shelves of everything from […]

Article by Andrew Townley / Archistry Daily / Agile Security, BCP, Crisis Management, ESLC, Pandemic Planing, Psychology

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