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Practical Cybersecurity Architecture - Second Edition

By : Diana Kelley, Ed Moyle
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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

Part 2: Building an Architecture

This section walks through how to begin the solution design process: specifically, how to map out the high-level and conceptual design for subsequent implementation. Before we can get to the nitty-gritty of how we will accomplish a given design, we need to first answer the questions of why one design is optimal over another. This, as you might imagine, is unique to the business within which the solution will live.

These chapters begin a learn-by-doing approach that will continue throughout the rest of the book. Beginning with scope and requirements, we unpack how to evaluate the boundaries of our design scope: what needs are to be met, for what areas of the business, and under what constraints. After establishing these key factors that serve as raw materials to ensure business needs are met, we then put together a “toolbox” of the techniques that we will employ as we build the design, marshaling the resources that will help get us there...