A SABSA World UK Event
19th May 2026
Security-modelling expert and SABSA Instructor, TSI Modelling SABSA with ArchiMate (MSA) Working Group Lead
Tuesday 19th May 2026
6pm to 9pm (PA Consulting, London – near Victoria Station)
See No Evil?: Visualising Security Risk.
Why do we intuitively sense physical danger but struggle to grasp complex cyber risks? In this in-person session, we will explore how modern Enterprise Architecture (EA) tools can help us move away from dense documentation.
Through a live demonstration, we will visually map complex systems, achieve intuitive situational awareness, and optimize security posture without triggering unintended consequences.
Event Overview
Bridge the Business-Cyber gap. Solve complex risk via EA tools and intuitive visualisation. Join us in London on Tuesday for an in-person session and live demonstration with Steven Bradley.
Talk Description
In an influential early book on security, [‘Secrets & Lies’: (2000)], the technologist, Bruce Schneier reflects on why, when humans generally have an intuitive, highly developed sense of risk in everyday life (crossing a road, walking down a dark alley, etc), do we find it so difficult to analyse risk?
He identified several factors with significant influence on risk perception: inability to evaluate rare events, confirmation bias in trust of IT, and the degree to which the subject feels a sense of ‘control’, is able to ‘personify’ a threat or is presented with impacts that are either novel or spectacular.
Manifesting from the digital realm, Cybersecurity is rich in the traits that make risk analysis difficult. This is compounded by large, highly complex and interconnected systems characterised by multiple many-to-many relationships along the attack chain: risks – vectors – vulnerabilities – actors – controls.
These inherent issues have important consequences for how Cybersecurity teams design and implement their GRC and assurance frameworks. How we can optimise our risk posture, using our limited resources, and make any adjustment without triggering the ‘butterfly effect’.
In this presentation, Steven Bradley will explore recent developments in EA tooling that promise better visualisation of Cybersecurity risk. While the virtual world might never become so tangible as to be familiar, it is becoming increasingly possible to immerse and interact with the virtual world and understand it more intuitively – offering a depth of situational awareness and understanding that few can achieve from a bookshelf of traditionally documented artefacts.
The session, which will include a practical demonstration, will be of excellent value to a wide range of delegates who would be interested in what visualisation can contribute to security management.
Speaker Bio – Steven Bradley
Consulting Security Architect, Cyber Enterprise Modelling (Belgium)
Steven is a Belgium-based independent security consultant at Cyber Enterprise Modelling and has been a regular presenter at COSAC since 2018 on the topic of security by design through automation and modelling.
He is the principal author of The SABSA Institute and The Open Group paper Modelling SABSA with ArchiMate and chairs the associated SABSA Working Group.
Steven holds several security, architecture and privacy certifications including both SABSA Chartered Practitioner certifications, and is contributor to the forthcoming ArchiMate Next.
Event Registration
Please note that few tickets are left. To register and attend the Security Architect’s Roundtable: Bridging the Business-Cyber Gap on 19th May 2026, please visit this website for event details and registration.
For more information on SABSA World UK, please contact Simon Cross.
This event is kindly sponsored by PA Consulting and Infoblox.
