In part 1 we outlined that Architecture as a discipline is on the wane, replaced by the approach of doing ‘things’ that are roughly targeted in the right direction. When studying TOGAF some years ago, I was always a little surprised with the phrase and phase “request for work”. This always made me imagine a […]
In historic blogs now lost in the mists of the Internet, I’ve written about this before. There is something odd about cyber people who have to show the extent of their knowledge to other cyber people. At. Every. Possible. Moment. I experience this so frequently that it’s rarely worth writing about here. But it happened […]
I’m involved with a number of teams and projects who have all drunk the automation kool-aid. Now, to be clear – I’m not against automation. I’m thinking here about the use of DevSecOps stacks/Infra as Code etc. We’ve all no doubt been involved (either as the initiator or a bystander) in incidents caused by the […]
You will recall from Part 1 and Part 2 that I bemoaned the flagellation of the security tools industry for failures in security and therefore the occurrence of breaches. The real question is: given there is a problem here, what should we do about it. If security tooling is not the answer, what is? Well, […]
Fractional Polymath 