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May 28, 2024

The ultimate security song to keep you focused on what you’re doing

“Come on tell me who are youOh, I really wanna know” If there was ever one song recorded that captured the essence of what we do as security, I’d have to give it to the classic “Who Are You” by the Who—especially after the deep dive into thinking about authentication and access control I did […]

Article by Andrew Townley / Archistry Daily / Agile Security, Leadership, SABSA, Security Customers, Stakeholder Engagement

May 27, 2024

Security heroes

The cynical definition of a “hero” is one I remember spouting off in meetings not so many years ago. I was a bit more jaded then. Maybe I had a reason, but maybe I didn’t. Looking back on it now, I’m actually not sure. But I do remember what I said about heroes on more […]

Article by Andrew Townley / Archistry Daily / Agile Security, Effective Security, Leadership, Transactional Analysis

April 26, 2020

Calibrating your cloning machine

When you learn something new, there’s two main problems you need to solve. The first, obviously, is how to put what you’ve learned into practice. This can take many forms. You can take a reference – like a book, a video, your notes, photos or even just what you remember –and you can make the […]

Article by Andrew Townley / Archistry Daily / ESLC, Leadership, SABSA, Security Leadership, Security Skill Transfer, Staffing

December 8, 2019

Stepping in mythical maturity mud puddles

While this is something I’ve written about before, it’s not normally something that comes up quite so strongly and quite so often in the same day. That “something” is the myth of some magical level of maturity in your security program when “things will happen.” When we get [magical maturity level], then we can be […]

Article by Andrew Townley / Archistry Daily / Agile Security, Change, Effective Security, Leadership, SABSA, Security Architecture, Security Maturity

July 8, 2019

If you want to improve your security program, this is how NOT to think…

Today I was scrolling through my LinkedIn feed, and I came across this gem. I won’t attribute credit here, because it wasn’t about security, but I can tell you that from my experience, this thought has been echoed by many a security person in the past—including me, I’m sorry to say: === In my experience […]

Article by Andrew Townley / Archistry Daily / Leadership, Morale, Team

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