SATURN 2012 Conference

I will be speaking at the upcoming SATURN 2012 Conference on the security and risk management topic. My session titled Establishing Enterprise Security and Risk Management Program in an Agile Software Development Organization, is about a security-management program that can be used to build security and risk management aspects into agile software product-development life cycle.

I will discuss various process touchpoints at all levels of agile projects (feature, sprint, release, project, and product levels). I will also talk about security-architecture assessments that can assist the software architects, to perform risk assessment of new software products and services.

We will also look at some security-architecture framework components like security architecture, design, governance, standards, identity and access management (IAM), system and information integrity, and security-information event management (SIEM).

If you are interested in attending the conference, you can register at the following link:

http://www.sei.cmu.edu/saturn/2012/registration.cfm

I have spoken at SATURN conference in the past and looking forward to attending it this year. It's one of my favorite conferences that I look forward to attending every year.

SATURN 2010 Conference

I will be speaking at the upcoming SATURN 2010 conference next month. My presentation title is "Agile Architect - Integrating Enterprise Architecture into Agile and Lean Software Development". I will discuss an agile architecture framework on how to integrate the architecture concerns into the Agile Software Development environments.

The discussion includes various organizational, team structure, and process changes we implemented to make Enterprise Architecture (EA) efforts an integral part of the software development and management processes. Some of these changes include "Architecture and Security Assessment" and "SOA Assessment" in those projects that have the architecture significance and potential for creating reusable Components and Services.

The other techniques we implemented to make architecture and design aspects blend with the Development, Unit Testing and Continuous Integration (CI) steps in the Agile Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) are Domain-Driven Design (DDD), Model Driven Software Development (MDSD), and Automated Policy Enforcement. I will talk about these techniques in detail in the presentation.

SATURN is a great conference to attend. I attended the last year's conference which had speakers like John Zachman and Rebecca Wirfs-Brock give keynote presentations. There were several real-world project based presentations which is one of the things I look for in any conference. There were also very interesting BOF sessions on topics like Architecture Validation.

If you are currently working or looking to learn architecture skills to get into the Architecture area, checkout the SATURN 2010 conference and if you are interested register for the conference.