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Practical Cybersecurity Architecture - Second Edition

By : Diana Kelley, Ed Moyle
Book Image

Practical Cybersecurity Architecture - Second Edition

By: Diana Kelley, Ed Moyle

Overview of this book

Cybersecurity architecture is the discipline of systematically ensuring that an organization is resilient against cybersecurity threats. Cybersecurity architects work in tandem with stakeholders to create a vision for security in the organization and create designs that are implementable, goal-based, and aligned with the organization’s governance strategy. Within this book, you'll learn the fundamentals of cybersecurity architecture as a practical discipline. These fundamentals are evergreen approaches that, once mastered, can be applied and adapted to new and emerging technologies like artificial intelligence and machine learning. You’ll learn how to address and mitigate risks, design secure solutions in a purposeful and repeatable way, communicate with others about security designs, and bring designs to fruition. This new edition outlines strategies to help you work with execution teams to make your vision a reality, along with ways of keeping designs relevant over time. As you progress, you'll also learn about well-known frameworks for building robust designs and strategies that you can adopt to create your own designs. By the end of this book, you’ll have the foundational skills required to build infrastructure, cloud, AI, and application solutions for today and well into the future with robust security components for your organization.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
1
Part 1: Security Architecture
4
Part 2: Building an Architecture
9
Part 3: Execution

Process steps

As we go through this chapter, you’ll notice that this phase of the design process is very tightly bound to the execution of our vision. This is by design. At this level of specificity, the execution of the design and the design itself are tightly intertwined. Therefore, as we move through this chapter, we will be concentrating both on the creation of the design itself and on the process of how we will achieve this. Due to this, we will also present two examples of how to effect the technical strategy through two hypothetical situations, both drawn from real-world business challenges that organizations are currently struggling with. We believe that breaking these examples down best illustrates how to overcome the technical design challenges that we might encounter.

Before we get into the meat of this, though, it’s important to talk about how we will approach this. As an analogy, consider once again a traditional architect (that is, an architect in the...