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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
9
Section 3:Execution

Considerations for DevOps projects

"Things such as DevOps, DevSecOps, and all of the "infrastructure as code" and all that doesn't change things. With the risk environment, if you understand it and have done it in a systematic way, you know what the risks are. Yes, there are new vulnerabilities being discovered every day, but they're not new potential things that could go wrong, they're just in different places. "There's a buffer overflow in the web browser instead of the email client." Who cares; it's still a buffer overflow – what you're trying to do is protect access control to the underlying platform. The particular way in doing this or the method of attack used doesn't change the impact – though it might change the likelihood."

– Andrew S. Townley, Chief Executive Officer Archistry Incorporated

The last model that we will walk through in detail is DevOps. Remember that there are as many...