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August 17, 2023

What prairie dogs can teach you about building security architecture

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 […]

Article by Andrew Townley / Archistry Daily / Archistry Daily, Architecture Models, cyber, Focus, Infosec, SecArch, Security Leader, STRIDE, Threat Modeling

August 17, 2023

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 […]

Article by Andrew Townley / Archistry Daily / AppSec, ArchistryDaily, Architecture Models, cyber, Infosec, SecArch, Security Leader

August 17, 2023

Weed-whacking your way to security architecture

May 25, 2020 You heard me talking about it yesterday. Those lov-er-ly “solution architecture” one-pagers that generally are either highly abstracted so as to fit on a single 16:9 slide or so detailed, the largest font size used on an A0 sheet would be 4 points. Either way, the one thing you can count on […]

Article by Andrew Townley / Archistry Daily / Archistry Daily, Architecture Model, cyber, Infosec, Sec Arch, Security Leader, Tech Arch

August 11, 2023

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 […]

Article by Andrew Townley / Archistry Daily / ArchistryDaily, Architecture Models, cyber, Infosec, SecArch, Security Leader

August 9, 2023

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 […]

Article by Andrew Townley / Archistry Daily / Agile Security, Archistry Daily, Architecture Models, cyber, Infosec, SecArch, Security Leader

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