Insights

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?

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.

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.

Was it the SABSA Foundation Course that first drummed into me, a then transitioning security professional, the importance of “Context, context, context”?