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Sitting Down With David Butcher – Re-Elected OMC Member For The OSDU® Forum

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By Ash Patel – CDMP, Marketing Specialist, The Open Group

Recently we reached out to David Butcher (Head of Value Engineering – Subsurface & Data, Halliburton-Landmark) to discuss his role as the re-elected OMC Member for The Open Group OSDU® Forum. Upon talking to David, we discussed his role, career journey, his business philosophy, and much more.

Humanizing Patch Prioritization

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Written by:
Denny Wan, Reasonable Security
James Middleton, Nationwide Insurance
Melissa Melancon, Kyndryl
John Feezell, Kyndryl
John Linford, The Open Group

“Practice what you Preach”

Hindsight is a powerful thing. Cyber defenders often bear the brunt of the blame for “preventable” cyber incidents that are attributed to a failure to apply available patches in a timely manner. For example, Veracode found that 1 in 3 applications (38 percent) still use vulnerable versions of Log4j two years after the vulnerability was disclosed and patches were made available[1]. It is easy to allocate blame for the failure to patch, but it is not the full story.

Toward a Standardized Security Reference Architecture for SMBs and Small Governments

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By John Linford, Security Portfolio Forum Director, The Open Group & Michelle Horrobin, Digital Portfolio Director, The Open Group

As has become evident in recent years and even months, modern organizations offer new products which are, more and more, dependent on digital components, and need to be secure to avoid falling victim to increasingly sophisticated and increasingly frequent cyber attacks. On top of having organizational, internal reasons for improving their security posture, these organizations also must keep up with increasing scrutiny and compliance requirements from governments and regulatory agencies, as well as customers and partners. Consequently, not only might a successful cyber attack leave an organization unable to operate, but it might also result in media backlash and fines and judgements for breaches and violations for the organization.

Ecosystems Architecture: New Thinking for Practitioners in the Age of AI Part 1: Where It All Began

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By Ash Patel, Marketing Specialist, The Open Group

Recently we sat down with some of the authors of the game changing book titled ‘Ecosystems Architecture: New Thinking for Practitioners in the Age of AI’, to discuss the conception of the book and where it all began. The full interview can be found below involving Paul Homan and Rahul talking in depth about the beginnings of the book, as co-authors along with Phil Tetlow and Neal Fishman, of the Ecosystems Architecture: New Thinking for Practitioners in the Age of AI book.

Celebrating 15 Years of the ArchiMate® Modeling Language: A Milestone in Enterprise Architecture

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By Kelly Canon, ArchiMate® Forum Director, The Open Group, with contributions from Andrew Josey, VP, Standards & Certification, The Open Group

Originally developed in the period 2002-2004 by a group of organizations and institutions in the Netherlands led by the Telematica Instituut, the ArchiMate® Modeling Language was created for Enterprise Architects by Enterprise Architects with the goal of a common language for modeling an enterprise.

Value-Based Architecture for Healthcare

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The Open Group® Healthcare Forum is now working on a Snapshot of what is intended to become its Value-Based Architecture™ or O-VBA™ for Healthcare standard.  The standard will offer Enterprise Architects working in healthcare delivery settings a reusable, extensible, and scalable tool for continuously improving the value and efficiency of patient-centered care.  It will apply to all medical specialties and clinical ecosystems.  Architects will be able to use the O-VBA for Healthcare standard to help create and sustain value-based healthcare systems. 

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?”