One of the tools of IT architects and UX designers is to work with so called ‘Personas’. Personas are fictional characters created to represent the different user types that might use a system, website, product or service. Using personas is common practice when dealing with UX design. But when developing a security architecture for a new system, service or website security personas are also valuable to use. Security Personas force you to think different about the goals and behaviour of attackers that are going to hit your system. Continue reading “How Security Personas will help you”
Complex attack vectors
Good security is goal oriented. A good security architecture is tailored to your situation.
When defining a product or new (IT) service one of the key activities is to define your specific security requirements. Defining requirements is known to be hard, time consuming and complex. Especially when you have an iterative development cycles and you do not have yet a clear defined view of your final product or service to be created. Continue reading “Complex attack vectors”