Ever wanted to be famous as a security architect? Well, it is possible and for all the right reasons. All  you need to do is figure out how to get the CEO to put your picture on his wall. The rest…well, it’ll work itself out.

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While you might remember the famous quote about ships in the harbor, how much have you thought about fear especially in the context of your organization…and your security program? In this episode, I talk a bit about fear and what to do about it when it comes to improving the effectiveness of your security program.

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Sometimes the things we do to try and get better…be better…ultimately backfire. And it’s due to the way we human animals are wired, so it doesn’t matter if it’s weight loss or security some things are just “things.” In this episode, I explore some of the ways your security program just might be making you fat.

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Most people don’t really know it, but there’s actually two types of “security architect” out there, and the fact that you only know about one could not only be limiting your own career as a security architect, it might also be unintentionally sabotaging your organization’s entire security program. In this episode, I talk about the two types of security architects I see in the wild and how to decide which one of them is the one you want to be for the rest or career.

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There’s a funny thing about security professionals that some would argue makes us able to do the job we do. However, it’s something that, as I progressed in my career, I realized can get in our way more often than not. And, when it does, we can fail to recognize what we really have when we think we have nothing. In this episode, I’ll talk about this phenomenon and let you in on a “secret” that I wish I’d discovered much, much earlier in my career.

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There’s a lot of  talk in the security world about “what’s next?” and “what does the future look like?” Frankly, if you put them all together, there’s a lot of core ideas that never quite seem to materialize. However, in this episode I take a look at what the most likely future of security will be, and present an alternative that will ultimately be better for everyone. Are you up for the challenge of building the real future of security?

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Lessons for what we need to do to build more effective security architectures are all around us, all the time. In fact, today’s episode comes from Robert Redford, and it’s something we should be carrying in our security architecture kit bag. Are you carrying it? And if you are, can you use it?

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Brace yourself, because this one comes in a bit hot. It does so because I’m getting more than a little tired of people not really understanding what the whole “Zero Trust” thing is actually about and acting like it’s something truly revolutionary. It isn’t. And in this episode, I’ll tell you exactly why.

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Now you might not immediately think it’s possible to use the words “fast” and “SABSA®” in the same sentence without contradicting yourself. However, this is often the unfortunate reality for many people once they go through the official SABSA training. In this episode, I tell you why this can happen, and I share with you the one decision you need to be prepared to make in order to allow you too to do security architecture fast…with SABSA.

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Have you ever struggled to define your enterprise security architecture (ESA)? Well, if you have, then there’s probably a reason for that, and what you need to identify to form the basis of your ESA is what this short episode is all about. Of course, my approach is all about using SABSA® and The Agile Security System to do this as quickly and easily as possible, but in this episode, you’ll also discover what the 3 most important concepts of SABSA are and how they work together to give you the foundation of the true ESA your organization needs.

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