Cybersecurity Architect's Handbook

4

Cybersecurity Architecture Principles, Design, and Analysis

“Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.”

– Sun Tzu

In the previous chapter, we covered the role of the cybersecurity architect and their responsibilities to help prepare and understand the scope of what a cybersecurity architect may do within an organization. In this chapter, the discussion will shift to the principles, design, and analysis of cybersecurity architecture.

Cybersecurity architecture is a technical architecture that focuses on achieving specific security goals. Essentially, it focuses on how to systematically, holistically, and repeatedly implement solutions that meet an organization’s security and compliance requirements. ...