by dianak | May 20, 2021 | Practical Cybersecurity Architecture
The most important piece of architecture is to understand the why: why it is that you are doing what it is that you are doing. Understanding the why leads you to the how. Understand it in the context of the broader business and organization goals context and let that...
by dianak | May 6, 2021 | Practical Cybersecurity Architecture, Security
In order to get started developing a cybersecurity architecture, we need to gather a few raw materials first. These are the items that will set the context for all the design work that we will undertake in subsequent chapters. Specifically, we need to first obtain a...
by dianak | Apr 22, 2021 | Practical Cybersecurity Architecture, Security
“Because security architecture is by nature a “bridge” or translation, the aspects of the architecture process that are most important are going to change from organization to organization. It might be a culture change that is most important for one...
by dianak | Apr 8, 2021 | Practical Cybersecurity Architecture, Security
“I think the most important part of the architecture process is risk, informed by data. Nowadays, it’s all about the data. We’ve moved beyond building strategies to protect a given server, or service. In reality, what you really need are strategies...
by dianak | Mar 25, 2021 | Practical Cybersecurity Architecture, Security
In this series, we’ve discussed what security architecture is conceptually, describing and providing an introduction to some of the standards and frameworks that are involved in effecting it in an organization. The last topic that we will cover before we get...
by dianak | Mar 11, 2021 | Practical Cybersecurity Architecture, Security
The last framework that we will look at is the Open Security Architecture (OSA). OSA is a community-driven effort to develop a model for security architecture. By community-driven, we mean that it is a set of individual elements contributed by whoever has the...
