How much security is enough?

With the increased importance of outsourcing, cyber collaboration, information sharing, and legally binding digital signatures, your partners and clients share your risks and are now key stakeholders in this equation.

Prudent and transparent security is now a cost of doing business. Those that modernize now survive, those that don't, won't.

To modernize efficiently and effectively 1) Find a community that defines cyber security prudence and 2) Adopt enterprise architecture and project management practices to control your modernization initiatives.

Thursday, January 10, 2008

Obtaining Funding - Example Line of Sight

One of the identity management technologies within a modern identity managment capability is an enterprise provisioning tool. If you don't have one today, or the ones you currently have are in siloes dispersed throughout pockets of your agency you may need to obtain funding to purchase an enterprise provisioning tool.

The discipline of Enterprise Architecture offers some great models that will help you obtain your funding. Because I am so results oriented, one of my personal favorites EA models are the "line of sight" diagrams. They clearly communicate how investing in something down in the weeds can deliver real business results.

I had a conversation with Mike Tiemann at the FEAC Institute last week. As many of you know, Mike is a (if not "the") leading expert in Enterprise Architecture for Federal Agencies. According to Mike, "Line of Sight is a powerful way to get business and mission owners to see and understand the value of technologies." So, to use the right tool for the job, you may want to include a line of sight diagram in your business case.

If you are not sure what a "line of sight" diagram looks like, here is an example that I put together for an enterprise provisioning tool.





The details don't quite fit in the blog space, if you would like the visio template or would like to use this diagram as a starting point, just shoot us at noconcreterafts@litmuslogic.com from your .gov email address.

Posted by James Ryan