Christian Blunt of Axenic Ltd has become the only resident in New Zealand to attain SABSA Master Status by completing Foundation Level Certification, two Practitioner examination passes, and now a very successful Thesis on the subject of Entity Relationship Modelling for SABSA Strategy & Planning. Chris will be presenting at the 2015 SABSA World Congress in September.See COSAC 2015 Synopsis of […]
The Attributer’s Blog – Business Context Aligned
The British Computer Society June newsletter featured an article by Neil Cordell. The article opens with the following statement: “When it comes to dealing with cyber security, technologists must focus more on threats and controls and less on risk”. Mr. Cordell is concerned that implementing security controls is entirely in the hands of technologists, who have no real idea of […]
The Attributer’s Blog – Time-Trusted
The Attributer and his Wife enjoy watching television for relaxation and they often watch ‘detective’ programmes. Recently one such programme focused on a plot that revolves around knowing what time it really is. It served as a reminder that this aspect of security is as important today as ever it was, even though it’s an old and well-known theme. If […]
The Attributer’s Blog – Process Controlled
The Attributer was recently at a client meeting where the conversation turned to the meaning of the term ‘information assurance’ and the scope of its application. Doubt was expressed as to whether the term includes the security and assurance of industrial control systems (ICS), supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) and industrial programmable logic controllers (PLCs). There is a historical […]
SABSA Community News – First SABSA Master (SCM) in USA
William “Bill” C Schultz of Vanderbilt University has become the first person in the USA to attain SABSA Master Status by completing Foundation Level Certification, Two Practitioner examination passes, and now a successful Thesis entitled “Using Enterprise Risk Management as a Tools for Strategic Achievement”. Bill will be presenting an overview of his work at the 2015 SABSA World Congress. Many Congratulations […]