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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

The process for setting scope

“You’re going to know some preliminaries about scope when you look at the environment from a data perspective. The data will help give you information about scope, as will your discussions with stakeholders. Data can drive decision-making around scope initially (due to frameworks), but keep in mind that you can expand scope as you go forward with the inclusion of additional data elements, other areas of the organization, or other business processes.”

– Dr. Richard Perez, vCISO

So, now that you understand why we are approaching it this way and what factors are driving this (both from an enterprise cybersecurity architecture viewpoint as well as in an application context), the next step is to outline a process or recipe that we can follow to make it happen.

Before we get into the details, we should point out that we’re in a little bit of a catch-22 situation when it comes to scope. On the one hand, until we can...