Lack of Cloud Ready Apps is a Software Architecture Failure

Seemingly a lifetime ago (2009!), I shared how security concerns have to be “baked into” any cloud platform, as well as a simple set of capabilities to consider when addressing said security concerns.  Of course, information security is just one a…

Lack of Cloud Ready Apps is a Software Architecture Failure

Seemingly a lifetime ago (2009!), I shared how security concerns have to be “baked into” any cloud platform, as well as a simple set of capabilities to consider when addressing said security concerns.  Of course, information security is just one a…

Lack of Cloud Ready Apps is a Software Architecture Failure

Seemingly a lifetime ago (2009!), I shared how security concerns have to be “baked into” any cloud platform, as well as a simple set of capabilities to consider when addressing said security concerns.  Of course, information security is just one a…

Lack of Cloud Ready Apps is a Software Architecture Failure

Seemingly a lifetime ago (2009!), I shared how security concerns have to be “baked into” any cloud platform, as well as a simple set of capabilities to consider when addressing said security concerns.  Of course, information security is just one a…

On strategy and design

This one started a couple days ago, with a straightforward Tweet-query from Dave Gray: davegray: “Strategy is design.” Agree or disagree? Why? What followed was, for me, one of the best back-and-forth Twitter-conversations in recent weeks: nickmalik: @davegray design is a method.  Strategy is a result.  Fair to say good strategy may result from design, […]

The Group of Six

According to Buddhist tradition, there was a group of six monks who constantly behaved in ways that exasperated the Buddha, causing him to produce a series of monastic rules to regulate their conduct.

“Six bhikkhus wearing wooden sandals, and each ho…

The Group of Six

According to Buddhist tradition, there was a group of six monks who constantly behaved in ways that exasperated the Buddha, causing him to produce a series of monastic rules to regulate their conduct.

“Six bhikkhus wearing wooden sandals, and each ho…

For 2012, I Pledge to Gain Weight

This year will be different. I am going to oscillate through various diet and exercise programs until I am 20 pounds heavier. I am going to eat more salt, and wait longer to reply to emails and voicemail. I know these don’t sound like good goals, …

For 2012, I Pledge to Gain Weight

This year will be different. I am going to oscillate through various diet and exercise programs until I am 20 pounds heavier. I am going to eat more salt, and wait longer to reply to emails and voicemail. I know these don’t sound like good goals, …

Open Group Complements TOGAF with SABSA Integration

The Open Group announced last month the release of the TOGAF & SABSA Integration Whitepaper, a new guide developed in collaboration with The SABSA Institute to enable enterprise and security architects to integrate security and risk management approaches into enterprise-level…

Decision-making – linking intent and action [1]

How is it that what we actually do in the heat of the action can differ so much from the intentions and decisions we set beforehand? How can we bring them into better alignment, so that we do ‘keep to the plan’, at the individual level, and across the enterprise? And once again, what implications does […]