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November 11, 2019

No waxing, no painting…and no waiting

I don’t know about you, but I saw the original Karate Kid in the cinema, and while the 2010 reboot was pretty good, it really wasn’t quite the same—despite keeping the major plot points and challenges. However, what I want to talk about today are some of the classic lines and scenes of the original. […]

Article by Andrew Townley / Archistry Daily / Agile Security, Coaching Program, Karate Kid, Risk Assessment, Security Architecture, Security Bootcamp, Security Skills

November 10, 2019

The two faces of the end of the year—which are you?

[This post was originally sent to the Archistry email list on 2-Nov-19. If you want to avoid the lag, you can subscribe and get these in real-time by using the pop-up, the box on the left or the form at archistry.com – Ed.] What I just realized today was that we’re exactly 61 days from […]

Article by Andrew Townley / Archistry Daily / Agile Security, Coaching Program, Risk Assessment, Security Architecture, Security Bootcamp, Security Skills

November 8, 2019

Is your security architecture as useless as tits on a boar hog?

One of the other big problems I see when I’m working with clients and customers that’s a lack of discipline with how they structure their risk assessments. They’re all over the place, and they smack of all the problems we talk about during the SABSA Foundation course: They’re highly subjective They vary greatly in structure […]

Article by Andrew Townley / Archistry Daily / Agile Security, ASML, Risk Assessment, SABSA, Security Architecture, TDG, VERIS

October 26, 2019

Effective action without the hits and misses of the 10,000 hour myth

Do you really want to become a world-class security leader or security architect, or do you want to set a different target? Because remember…“great” is often the enemy of “good enough.” We’ve all heard the magic 10,000 hour figure before. Malcom Gladwell popularized it in the book Outliers, and then you hear it in songs, […]

Article by Andrew Townley / Archistry Daily / Agile Security, Business Alignment, Effective Security, Risk Assessment, SABSA, Security Architecture, TDG

October 23, 2019

The rule of 3: brevity and rhythm

[Note that this is a slightly abbreviated version (yes, really…) of the original. The original only went to the subscribers to my daily email tips, but you can get all the goodies too if you type your email in that box. You’ll always be the first to know what’s going on, and sometimes, it might […]

Article by Andrew Townley / Archistry Daily / Agile Security, Architecture Models, Book Launch, COSAC, Risk Assessment, SABSA, Security Architecture, TDG

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