Secured by Galah Cyber 
About Ken Fitzpatrick
Ken Fitzpatrick is founder and director of Patterned Security, a Sydney cybersecurity consultancy helping organisations embed governance, risk, architecture and assurance practices into project delivery. He has more than 20 years' experience across cybersecurity strategy, architecture, engineering and operations, with earlier roles at Westpac Group, Transport for NSW and Gyfon. Fitzpatrick created securitypatterns.io, a resource site on writing and applying security patterns, and speaks regularly at industry events including the Australian Cyber Conference. On Secured by Galah Cyber, he discussed why security design keeps failing in practice and how organisations can fix it.
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Secured by Galah Cyber Go straight to the good bits.
Key moments from The Architect’s Dilemma: Why Security Design Keeps Failing (and How to Fix It).
- 0:48Chainguard Ad
- 1:20Meet Ken Fitzpatrick and Patterned Security
- 2:19How a cancelled Canada trip sparked securitypatterns.io
- 4:08Why architecture needs practical guidance, not more frameworks
- 5:18The four step method for real security architecture
- 7:23Moving beyond box ticking and why engineering experience matters
- 9:39Teaching architecture fundamentals and selecting the right controls
- 11:37Traceability and making defensible design decisions
- 13:14Architecture vs assurance and who securitypatterns.io is for
- 16:31Embedding secure by design into PMO processes and scale up use cases
In their own words.
“If you're an architect that's just doing assurance, you're absolutely replaceable with where AI is heading.”
The path so far.
- Now
Founder & Director · Patterned Security
- Earlier
Cybersecurity role · Westpac
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Cybersecurity role · Transport for NSW
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Cybersecurity role · Ausgrid
Sources: galahcyber.com.au
Patterned Security on Day One
Patterned Security is a Sydney cyber security consultancy that helps small and medium-sized Australian organisations build security into their projects and systems.
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