Chief Architect Dr. Malcolm Shore will present on Applying SABSA to Secure AI Business Value at the ISACA Canberra 2025 Conference on 7th November.
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ISACA Canberra Conference, 7 November 2025
CyberCon Melbourne, 15-17 October 2025
Find us on Stand 88 at CyberCon Melbourne 2025, 15-17 October at the Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre.
Webinar: Turbo-charge your SABSA Proficiency Through Modelling 28 August 2025
Are you enthused by the SABSA methodology but wish you had a faster, clearer, more insightful way to visualise and analyse your security landscape? Discover how Enterprise Architecture modelling techniques can revolutionise your approach to SABSA.
SABSA WORLD UK – 9 SEPTEMBER 2025
The latest edition of SABSA World UK will take place in London on 9 September 2025. Join David Lynas as he explores "How to Solve Complex Security Problems with SABSA".
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Enabling Australian Business to Adopt ASD ACSC’s Modern Defensible Architecture
Empower and support your organisation to deliver not just the ASD ACSC's Modern Defensible Architecture (MDA) itself but the critical artefacts and principles recommended to achieve the MDA in reality by leveraging Enterprise Security Architecture Principles.
TACO – Integrating Control Objectives for AI
The emergence of AI as a disruptive technology has spurred the development of standards and guidelines for the AI safety, security and responsible management but these do not align readily and an architectural model is required. Integrating these requirements in a Trusted AI Control Objectives (TACO) model supports an integrated compliance approach.
AI and the Role of the Enterprise Security Architect
Adopting an Architecture-first approach to Generative AI will go a long way to addressing its alignment with business requirements. Learn how using the SABSA methodology can enable secure, safe and responsible architectures to be modelled and applied in the businesses’ AI solutions.
Enterprise Security Architecture (ESA): What Is It and Why Is It (Really) Important?
What is “Architecture”? What is “An Architect” and what does an “Architect” do? And how does that relate to the “Enterprise” way of thinking to deliver business value particularly in the field of information/cyber security?
Resources
Enterprise Security Architecture (ESA) Principles
An explanation of SABSA®’s Principles for Enterprise Security Architecture, revealing the most common client mistakes we encounter, and demonstrating how we at David Lynas Consulting use ESA Principles.
W100 – The SABSA White Paper
An executive summary of the SABSA Method, it’s tools, techniques and concepts. White Paper from The SABSA Institute.
W103 – SABSA Responsibility Assignment Modelling
An introduction to SABSA Responsibility Assignment Modelling and the abstract and conceptual views of stakeholders’ roles and responsibilities.
R101 – The SABSA Matrices 2018 Release Notes
An update to the SABSA Matrix™ and the SABSA Management Matrix™ in 2018 and an analysis of the changes made in that update.
Video
AI Security Architecture
Join Dr. Malcolm Shore discusses AI Security Architecture. Learn how to architect security solutions to manage the risk from cyber attacks and AI malfunctioning.
The Business of Risk
How can we make The Business of Risk meaningful, credible, and clearly understood? How do we provide accurate Risk Context for decision-making that balances the likelihood of loss with the possibility of gain?
SABSA’s Integrated Controls Library
Explorie how the Integrated Controls Library (ICL), a centralized repository for information about an organization’s approved security controls and associated meta-data, plays a critical role in fully realizing an enterprise security architecture’s full range of benefits.