Author: Chief Architect
Refreshing the Security Architecture Professional BoK
There is an important question to which security professionals need an answer: What is Cyber Security Architecture? There is some confusion about the answer. For many, if not most, the phrase refers only to technology structure. Others will inlcude people and processes. For another group, security architecture incudes high level governance structures. SABSA Practitioners fall into the latter category. SABSA […]
A Brief History of SABSA: Part 3 – The SABSA Institute is Born
The Short History of SABSA had reached the year 2005 in my last blog. Now it’s time to finish the story and bring it up to date. I first need to retrace my steps back to 2003 for a moment. David Lynas and I had been working for QinetiQ from 2001 to 2002. It was a short spell of full […]
A Brief History of SABSA: Part 2 – An Evolving Framework
Six months ago we launched this blog with a brief history of how SABSA was born. Now with the launch of the new SABSA Institute web portal with full membership facilities, it’s time to pick it up again and tell the story of what happened next. During 1996 I was working mostly for S.W.I.F.T., assisting Erik Guldentops, Director of Global […]
A Brief History of SABSA: Part 1 – 21 years old this year
As SABSA reaches it’s 21st birthday, it’s worth taking a few moments to look back over its birth and development. The very first publication of SABSA was in October 1996 at the COMPSEC conference: John Sherwood: “SALSA: A Method of Developing the Enterprise Security Architecture and Strategy”; COMPSEC 96, London, October 1996. SALSA? That’s right – SALSA. But, more about […]
The Chief Architect’s Blog
It’s October 2017 and The SABSA Institute is launching a new blog by John Sherwood, the Chief Architect and original creator of SABSA and the lead author of the book Enterprise Security Architecture: A Business Driven Approach, in which the SABSA framework is described. The book was published in 2005 and much work has been done since then to extend […]