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Practical Cybersecurity Architecture

By : Ed Moyle, Diana Kelley
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Practical Cybersecurity Architecture

By: Ed Moyle, Diana Kelley

Overview of this book

Cybersecurity architects work with others to develop a comprehensive understanding of the business' requirements. They work with stakeholders to plan designs that are implementable, goal-based, and in keeping with the governance strategy of the organization. With this book, you'll explore the fundamentals of cybersecurity architecture: addressing and mitigating risks, designing secure solutions, and communicating with others about security designs. The book outlines strategies that will help you work with execution teams to make your vision a concrete reality, along with covering ways to keep designs relevant over time through ongoing monitoring, maintenance, and continuous improvement. As you progress, you'll also learn about recognized frameworks for building robust designs as well as strategies that you can adopt to create your own designs. By the end of this book, you will have the skills you need to be able to architect solutions with robust security components for your organization, whether they are infrastructure solutions, application solutions, or others.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
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Section 1:Security Architecture
4
Section 2: Building an Architecture
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Section 3:Execution

Summary

In this chapter, we've covered how you can extend your architectural design process into a broader program, that is, how to create a virtuous cycle whereby your process reinforces itself to achieve greater efficiency and better outcomes. We've also covered some of the best advice that we've received from the architects we interviewed to give you an insight into what you can do to improve as an architect, and also what common mis-steps and pitfalls to avoid as you do your work.

Throughout this book, we've tried to map out a process that you can follow to create a cybersecurity architecture for the systems, applications, hosts, processes, and other elements of your technology ecosystem. We've tried to emphasize how to do this in an adaptive, flexible, and nimble way – both to you help you tailor existing architectural frameworks to models such as DevOps and Agile, but also so that even if you're not following an architectural framework...