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.
Insights & Resources
News
Webinar: Turbo-charge your SABSA Proficiency Through Modelling 28 August 2025
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".
Webinar: AI Security Architecture 20 August 2025
Join Dr. Malcolm Shore on 20th August 2025 for a webinar on AI Security Architecture. Learn how to architect security solutions to manage the risk from cyber attacks and AI malfunctioning.
Webinar: AI Security Architecture – 30 July 2025
Join Dr. Malcolm Shore on 30th July 2025 for a webinar on AI Security Architecture. Learn how to architect security solutions to manage the risk from cyber attacks and AI malfunctioning.
Insights
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?
Competence is Value – Why Knowledge-based Training Falls Short
The roles of information security, risk management and assurance are vital to providing confidence and trust over our use of technology and information, and thus business ability to leverage them for opportunity and gain.
Leveraging Security Standards-based Knowledge
Security standards, in all their various shapes and forms, are often viewed as a deep well of compliance nit-noid details associated with ever-rising demands on resources and periodic compliance and audit agonies. But let’s step beyond the agony to recognize and make effective use of security standards as the rich source of security knowledge they represent.
The SABSA Modeller
Was it the SABSA Foundation Course that first drummed into me, a then transitioning security professional, the importance of “Context, context, context”?
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.