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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

Scope – application security

“In the requirements phase, you need to ask both what security controls are needed, but also ask what shouldn’t happen (account for those things as you find them). During design, threat modeling lets you ensure you understand what could go wrong so that you can design those considerations in. During implementation, incorporate security into IDE, modular code reviews, check-ins, etc. instead of waiting to reach the testing phase for a security-focused discussion to happen. During testing, evolve the security testing program to move from regular intervals to an irregular (unpredictable) or – better yet – continuous manner. Lastly, as you maintain, change the metrics from primarily KPI-driven (for example, the number of critical vulns in production systems) to KRI-driven (e.g. – the number of critical vulns out of SLA in the production env).”

– Phoram Mehta, Director & Head of Infosec APAC, PayPal...