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Improving Return on Security Investment: Estimating the Impact of Mitigations

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By Simone Curzi, Principal Consultant, Microsoft; John Linford, Security Portfolio Forum Director, The Open Group; Dan Riley, Vice President & Distinguished Engineer Data Science, Kyndryl; Ken St. Cyr, Sr. Cybersecurity Architect, Microsoft

Understanding the risks present in the system you are developing is important, but it is even more important to determine mitigation actions. Activities like threat modeling can help with identifying your options, but they are usually too numerous and too expensive. What should you really do? And would the residual risk be acceptable afterwards?

Improving Return on Security Investment: Evaluating the Current Risk

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By Simone Curzi, Principal Consultant, Microsoft; John Linford, Security Portfolio Forum Director, The Open Group; Dan Riley, Vice President & Distinguished Engineer, Data Science, Kyndryl; Ken St. Cyr, Sr. Cybersecurity Architect, Microsoft

Threat Modeling and Open FAIR™ Standard, a standard of The Open Group, can answer some of the most important questions we have currently on Security. With this second blog in the ‘Improving Return on Security Investment’ series, we try to answer one of those key questions: “How much security is enough?”

The Open Group Portfolio of Digital Open Standards: Navigating Your Digital Landscape

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By Sonia Gonzalez , Digital Manager, Portfolio of Digital Open Standards, The Open Group

According to MIT Sloan and Capgemini, 90% of CEOs believe the digital economy will impact their industry, but less than 15% are executing on a digital strategy.

Digital transformation has become essential for businesses to remain competitive in today’s changing market and technological landscape. In recent years, there has been a rapid transformation in the business world, as many companies are adopting new technologies to streamline their operations.

Improving Return on Security Investment: Threat Modeling & Open FAIR

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For most, Security is a cost. Therefore, it is important to get just the right amount of it, and no more. But how do you decide when you have enough Security, and what do you do to get it? That’s an entirely different matter. This is the first post of a series on how to Improve the Return on your Security Investment with Threat Modeling and Open FAIR.

The Open Group 2023 Highlights, Including a Glance into 2024

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By Steve Nunn, President & CEO, The Open Group.

Happy New Year! I hope that, wherever you are reading this, 2024 has started well for you and yours.

I believe that 2024 will be another busy and significant year for The Open Group, as was 2023. So much happened last year that I thought that I would take the opportunity to look back at some of the highlights, and add a few peeks into this coming year.

Step Into a Career in Data Science

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By Dan Riley, Distinguished Engineer & Vice President, Data Science, Kyndryl

November 2022’s post, “The Fully Credentialed Data Science Professional”, recommended a combination of credentials toward which data scientists and related professionals should work. However, as the well-known Chinese proverb roughly says, “a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” The Open Group is adding a clear starting point for students, trainees, and career changers to begin their professional data science journeys.

The ArchiMate® Patterns Library: What is it and how to contribute

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By Kelly Canon, ArchiMate® Forum Director, The Open Group

The ArchiMate Modeling Language, standardizes an organizations framework to effectively describe, analyze and visualize their enterprise architecture. By using a standardized language like ArchiMate, not only does it allow internal stakeholders to understand and communicate simple to complex architectural concepts and relationships, but it can encourage the sharing of non-proprietary “patterns” with other enterprise architects.

Congratulations to the Outstanding Contribution Award Winners for The Open Group OSDU® Forum, Houston, TX, November 2023

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By Ash Patel, Marketing Specialist, The Open Group

During The Open Group Houston Summit in November 2023, Steve Nunn, President and CEO, The Open Group, Patrick Kelly, Product Line Manager Subsurface Data & Insights, Chevron, and Michael Cleminson, Global Innovation Manager, SLB-OMC, along with Dennis Stevens, Program Director, OSDU Forum, The Open Group, proudly announced the winners of The Open Group OSDU® Forum Awards.