Trials and tribulations of TCPDF
I've been trying to get the PDF rendering working properly and I find that this is not as simple as I would like!
Blog
Updates, insights, and commentary from the OSA community. Tracking the evolution of security architecture since 2008.
• Spinoza
Better printing for patterns
We will try and get the printing improved as a priority. We know that quite a lot of our users want to easily print the patterns, and right now they do not print very well. One option is a PDF converter, although when we tested this a while back it did not work very well. Stay tuned and we should have an answer soon!
Summer hibernation
Just a quick note to say that while progress has been slow lately due to the summer here in the Northern Hemisphere where the core team are located, we are still working according to the roadmap and you can expect to see some new patterns and other artifacts as we head into September and October.
• Spinoza
New data security pattern
I finally got round to finishing the draft of the data security pattern.
OSA presentation at OWASP chapter meeting
At the recent OWASP Switzerland chapter meeting, I have presented OSA. We have got some positive and constructive feedback and look forward to more contributors :-). Most importantly we have heard again that also for security architecture pattern applies: "the more the merrier"
• Spinoza
ISO and COBIT mapping
I've spent the last couple of days adding ISO17799 and COBIT mappings to the controls catalog. If you check any of the controls you will now see the mapping details at the bottom. You can also search for ISO or COBIT references using the search function in the menu bar to return a list of controls if you want to do a reverse lookup!
Looking for contributors for the secure development pattern
We just started the discussion on secure development lifecycle.
OSA News January 09
Please find a short summary of recent changes on the Open Security Architecture website:
• Phaedrus
Cloud pattern finalised
Take a look at the cloud pattern in the pattern library (library/patternlandscape/251-pattern-cloud-computing)
• Phaedrus
Cloud Computing research
I've been spending time researching the Cloud Computing pattern in the last week or so and I must say I am learning a lot. I've been a big fan of Nick Carr (http://www.roughtype.com/) since I saw him speak about 3 years ago, and have long appreciated the possible financial benefits for large organizations of a utility model for computing. However I have the same feeling about some of the distributed technologies that are starting to spring up as I had when I first encountered the Internet back in '93. In other words I think we are in for a really big paradigm shift with a lot of innovation (and I'm not talking about Social networking!). Of course I could just be getting carried away with the hype but I think not, and this is why: