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February 27, 2023

Afraid up-skilling your security team will train them for their next job?

  There’s a negative, cynical and sometimes, unfortunately true idea out there that if you pay for skills development with your security team, you’re throwing money away because people are milking you to help them get their next job. There’s a couple of things to say about this. First, yep. It’s true. And it’s not […]

Article by Andrew Townley / Archistry Daily / Cybersecurity, Security Architect, security team

February 15, 2020

It’s time to put the propeller under glass

I know I’ve talked about this before – most recently in the “architecture wasteland” email the other day – but based on 3 different conversations I had over the last 2 days with experienced, SABSA-certified architects (including a SABSA Master), I think it’s time to take off the kid gloves and do everything I possibly […]

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

January 30, 2020

Are you my kind of “security architect”?

Two conversations I’ve had in the last 5 days have prompted me to put more than a little thought into what my definition of a “security architect” actually is—especially given the nature of what Archistry does through our coaching, mentoring and training programs. The proliferation of definitions of “security architect” I talked about in the […]

Article by Andrew Townley / Archistry Daily / Agile Security, BESA, SABSA, Security Architect, Security Job Descriptions

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