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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

December 6, 2019

Can you really make security architecture a habit?

Interestingly enough, I was listing to a podcast yesterday on how to train your brain regarding habits with Tara Swart, a neuroscientist and senior lecturer from MIT and Nir Eyal, a behavioral designer. I really enjoy all this psychology and neuroscience stuff, as you might’ve noticed, because it’s one of the best ways I’ve discovered […]

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

December 5, 2019

A potential cure for cybersecurity envy

Since Thanksgiving is now in the rear-view mirror, we can start talking about what’s next for the end of the year. And for a lot of people, that means shopping for Christmas. One of the things I remember about being a kid was that one of my friends in particular used to get all the […]

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

November 25, 2019

Cutting through the business-driven bullshite like a hot knife through butter

As you might remember, the subject of the next Security Sanity™ print newsletter is all about security governance, and, governance in general within the concepts and foundational rules established by SABSA. And in talking to people about it a lot of the time, we get tangled up in assumptions about what we really mean when […]

Article by Andrew Townley / Archistry Daily / Agile Security, Business Alignment, Business-Driven Security, SABSA, Security Governance, TOGAF

November 24, 2019

Vin Diesel and Asia Argento explain governance in 10 seconds

I have to admit that I’ve been a Vin Diesel fan since I first saw him emerge from the darkness of Pitch Black as Riddick. 1,000% bad-ass for sure. Since then, I also have to admit that like a few other actors, I don’t really care what the movie is, I watch it because I […]

Article by Andrew Townley / Archistry Daily / Agile Security, SABSA, Security Governance

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