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.

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.

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.

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Sometimes, one of the hardest things to recognize is that the things we do that we think are going to help actually end up making things worse. In this episode,  I look at the parallels of weight loss and security in a way you probably haven’t thought about before. However, the answer, as you will see […]

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?

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.

So much of the terminology we use in security is overloaded—so much to the point that people who “grew up” in different areas of security can use the same words in the same conversation, mean something totally different, and still think the other person understood exactly what they meant. It’s like that Far Side cartoon: […]