This weekend, as you do after 5 weeks of the whole family under one roof, my wife decided that it was time to clean out the garage. And, apart from needing to do a bit of real-world architecture archaeology on my son’s disassembled Hot Wheels garage to get it back together correctly, things generally went […]
Security architecture confusion
I’ve been looking at a lot of “security architecture” recently, including some live, organizational architectures, some “off the cuff” things that I’d call security architecture “sketches”, and some formalized, published reference architecture models. And it hit me when I was taking a break, sitting in the fleeting sunshine this afternoon and listening to some Jimi […]
Building Effective Security Architectures “rewind” sale
I’ll make this short: Today, based on conversations I’ve been having with some of you individually over the last several weeks unwilling to wait until next year because you need it right now, I’m re-opening enrollment to the Building Effective Security Architectures program (BESA for short), and from today until next Sunday the 19th, you […]
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 […]
5 reasons why security architecture’s not for sissies
One of the first things you tend to hear when you arrive in Africa – and South Africa, particularly – is the phrase, “Africa’s not for sissies.” And there’s good reason for this. The daily power cuts impacting the whole country, including the “Mother City” herself…a healthy population of poisonous snakes many of our friends […]
