Information security architecture establishes rigorous and comprehensive policies, procedures, and guidelines around the development and operationalization of an information security architecture across the enterprise information technology deployed within an organization.
An organization's information security architecture must be tightly aligned with the organization's business mission in order to be successful. Establishing an information security architecture program that ultimately hampers the mission success will result in the architecture being ignored and the organization's risk level increasing.
When aligning your information security architecture with your business mission, you should ask yourself similar questions to those that you asked throughout the development of your information security program:
- What is your organization's business risk appetite?
- How much risk is your organization willing to tolerate?
- How much...