I want to tell you a little story about this guy – he was a bit geeky, loved comic books and sci-fi – and he had this crazy idea that was basically *guaranteed* to fail—at least as far as most people were concerned, anyway. But this geeky, highly introverted guy…he just wouldn’t give up, and, […]
TOGAF-crossed domains
Given that in most of the world (except Brazil) it’s Valentine’s Day weekend, I thought it would be a good time to tell a little love story of Romeo and Juliet proportions. Of course, the love story I’m talking about is the story of SABSA and TOGAF. Now SABSA is a bit of a recluse, […]
Don’t fear the framework
One thing we can pretty-much count on is that wherever we may find ourselves trying to do security architecture is going to have some kind of framework they’re using for delivering security. And one of the most popular ones of these frameworks is… …you guessed it—the NIST Cybersecurity Framework. Now, the whole “it’s just an […]
How bad judgement makes good security architects
This morning I was listening to a talk by Ken McCarthy, and he said something that I knew, but that I really hadn’t thought about for a while. Now you might not know who Ken McCarthy is, because he has absolutely nothing to do with security. He’s a marketing guy. But if you’ve been playing […]
Lost in the architecture wasteland
Yesterday I had a brilliant (and, fortunately, public) reminder of how often the life of a security architect is effectively lost in a wasteland of “architecture” that people genuinely believe is a useful depiction of the state of the world—or an organization. This time, the example was provided on Twitter with a brief “IT architect […]
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