The Open Group® Healthcare Forum is now working on a Snapshot of what is intended to become its Value-Based Architecture™ or O-VBA™ for Healthcare standard.  The standard will offer Enterprise Architects working in healthcare delivery settings a reusable, extensible, and scalable tool for continuously improving the value and efficiency of patient-centered care.  It will apply to all medical specialties and clinical ecosystems.  Architects will be able to use the O-VBA for Healthcare standard to help create and sustain value-based healthcare systems.  ..read more

The first three posts of this series have laid plain the need to supplement ongoing threat modeling activities with quantitative risk analysis, such as the process described in The Open Group Open FAIR™ Body of Knowledge. They’ve briefly discussed a way to incorporate Open FAIR Risk Analysis in the threat modeling process and illustrate how the results would improve return on security investment by deliberately selecting cost-effective combinations of controls. But questions remain ..read more

By: AJ Van de Voort, Intertek and co-chair, Open Footprint Forum, Sammy Lakshmanan, PWC and co-chair, Open Footprint Forum, Heidi Karlsson, The Open Group, Director ..read more

By Rajen Patel, Enterprise Architect, SAP. “See the essence under the dust of complexity.” One might not instantly connect the realms of abstract art and Enterprise Architecture, but Picasso's approach to abstraction presents a powerful model for simplifying and focusing on complex business structures ..read more

By Simone Curzi, Principal Consultant, Microsoft; John Linford, Security Portfolio Forum Director, The Open Group; Dan Riley, Vice President & Distinguished Engineer Data Science, Kyndryl; Ken St. Cyr, Sr. Cybersecurity Architect, Microsoft Understanding the risks present in the system you are developing is important, but it is even more important to determine mitigation actions. Activities like threat modeling can help with identifying your options, but they are usually too numerous and too expensive. What should you really do? And would the residual risk be acceptable afterwards ..read more

By Simone Curzi, Principal Consultant, Microsoft; John Linford, Security Portfolio Forum Director, The Open Group; Dan Riley, Vice President & Distinguished Engineer, Data Science, Kyndryl; Ken St. Cyr, Sr. Cybersecurity Architect, Microsoft Threat Modeling and Open FAIR™ Standard, a standard of The Open Group, can answer some of the most important questions we have currently on Security. With this second blog in the ‘Improving Return on Security Investment’ series, we try to answer one of those key questions: “How much security is enough ..read more

By Sonia Gonzalez , Digital Manager, Portfolio of Digital Open Standards, The Open Group According to MIT Sloan and Capgemini, 90% of CEOs believe the digital economy will impact their industry, but less than 15% are executing on a digital strategy. Digital transformation has become essential for businesses to remain competitive in today’s changing market and technological landscape. In recent years, there has been a rapid transformation in the business world, as many companies are adopting new technologies to streamline their operations ..read more

For most, Security is a cost. Therefore, it is important to get just the right amount of it, and no more. But how do you decide when you have enough Security, and what do you do to get it? That’s an entirely different matter. This is the first post of a series on how to Improve the Return on your Security Investment with Threat Modeling and Open FAIR ..read more

On January 8th, The Open Group Ecosystem Architecture Annual Conference and APAC Awards Ceremony kicked off in Shanghai! The event included a keynote speech, awards ceremony, and the pre-order of the Chinese version of TOGAF® standard, 10th Edition activities ..read more

The Open Group hosted its latest virtual event January 29-31, 2024. Across three days, the event addressed three different, vital topics, bringing together leading speakers and a global audience for a series of sessions which enlightened, inspired, and motivated us about the leading edge of enterprise technology thinking ..read more