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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

Establishing a guiding process

“There are ‘top down’ and ‘bottom up’ approaches to architecture. Many people start with the highest level of the organization and try to work down; this seems logical at first but what can happen is you lose sight of context as you move down the chain toward more specific usage. What I think is a better approach is to start bottom up: understand the threats, understand the context, understand the risks, and build architectures for the different environments piecemeal while keeping an awareness of the ‘macro’ – the high level view. This lets you reduce redundancy and normalize, but also create lightweight, modular frameworks that can be reused where needed or improved upon and reworked when needed. Anyone can build an architecture that looks great on paper; but an overly structured approach can be so rigid that it fails when it gets to implementation. You need concert between top down and bottoms...