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Practical Cybersecurity Architecture

By : Ed Moyle, Diana Kelley
Book Image

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)
1
Section 1:Security Architecture
4
Section 2: Building an Architecture
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Section 3:Execution

Chapter 5: Building an Architecture – Developing Enterprise Blueprints

Assuming you've been following along, believe it or not but at this point, you have all the ingredients and raw materials you'll need to complete your design. In Chapter 3, Building an Architecture – Scope and Requirements, we went through developing the initial baseline scope that you will use to create your design, while in the previous chapter, we looked at the tools that you might want to have in your toolbox as you ideate, document, and field your design.

This chapter, on the other hand, is all about crafting and documenting your vision. This is the information that will let you plan, validate, and document the blueprint that targets the security goals you have within the defined scope, as well as plan around any preexisting constraints.

Throughout this chapter, we'll put those elements together and go through the elements of the enterprise cybersecurity architecture planning...