Category: Blogs
The Attributer’s Blog – Digitally Architected
In the world of digital transformation, things are moving quickly. The concept of zero trust has matured significantly. Now we can see a much more holistic approach, often referred to as the ‘software defined perimeter’. One of the key features is the use of secure APIs for machine-to-machine communications. Many web applications are now bundles of microservices rather than a […]
The Attributer’s Blog – Governed
In the previous blog article (Conflicted, April 2019) The Attributer examined the potential conflict between the decisions made by autonomous systems and those made by their human operators. The case study was the alleged failure of the MCAS[1] system on the Boeing 737 Max aircraft and the part it may have played in two recent crashes of this aircraft. The […]
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 […]
The Attributer’s Blog – Non-Conflicted
Within the last 24 hours (as The Attributer writes this) the CEO of Boeing, Dennis Muilenburg, has publicly acknowledged that bad data feeding into an automated flight system on the company’s popular 737 Max jets played a role in two recent crashes [1]. “With the release of the preliminary report of the Ethiopian Airlines flight 302 accident investigation it’s apparent […]
The Attributer’s Blog – Zero Trusted
It’s the beginning of 2019 and the new buzz-ware from the security solution vendor community is ‘zero trust’. What do we think that means? It must be important because they’re all rushing to tell us how their products and services support this new initiative in security architecture. It’s being presented as the new holy grail, something never before imagined, that […]