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This blog shows the absolute bare minimum for anything to be considered an IT architecture design from my own experience. Continue reading →
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I wanted to share a simple way I learned of practically applying information classification to IT systems. I’ve spoken already about Information Security Thinking – this blog is more about ways to practically apply information security to n…
Is there a framework or methodology for establishing the business / ecosystem requirements to drive API strategy and development?At an industry event I attended recently, hosted by a company that sells tools and technologies for the API eco…
Staff from The Open Group attended the AUSA (Association of the United States Army) Exposition at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington DC, October 14-15, 2019. It was a very impressive exposition with approximately 30,000 attendees from 80 countries. The 700+ exhibits were incredible from Black Hawk Helicopters to huge army tanks and all kinds of sensors.
I was involved in a debate this week, concerning whether ethical principles and standards should include weapons systems, or whether military purposes should be explicitly excluded.On both sides of the debate, there were people who strongly disapproved…
A great many organizations have migrated their workloads (databases, back office systems, web applications etc.) to the cloud over the last decade or so. A great many more have still to do so, either because they’re dealing with industry-specific regul…
At #TalendConnect today frequent mention of #DataOps, although according to a post I found on the Talend blog from earlier this year, Talend prefers the term collaborative data management. Data Preparation … should be envisioned as a game-changing t…
Control Services are a mechanism we can use to implement security controls. I wrote this blog to demonstrate that controls are real things, which we should carefully consider; not just line items on a spreadsheet. Continue reading →
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Those of you using BiZZdesign’s Enterprise Studio know we are lucky enough to have a collection of elements for security modelling. This view shows how we can map those to standard ArchiMate elements. Continue reading →
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Have you ever found your organisation repeating its mistakes? Albert Einstein defined insanity as doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Yet this is exactly what we often see happening in our work life. One reason for this is the so called “zero defect culture” in some organisations where it…
In this modern age, Digital Transformation continues to be a priority for company executives. They know that Artificial Intelligence (AI), Blockchain, Internet of Things (IOT), and Big Data are driving their ability to improve customer experience, stay ahead of the competition and generate business growth. However, with IT teams entrenched in managing day-to-day technology, it is difficult for IT to stay abreast of the strategic discussions occurring at the business level and proactively plan for associated IT upgrades, modifications, or new systems. This disconnect can result in a lagging approach to IT planning especially as business decisions are made in fast-moving agile environments.
Our recent blog post on abstraction levels in architecture models resulted in a lively discussion on LinkedIn. As part of that discussion, the notion of layering was questioned, and in particular the layers that are built into the ArchiMate language. I…