Software Architecture and Decision-Making: Leveraging Leadership, Technology, and Product Management to Build Great Products

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Macro Architecture: Handling Security

Security involves securing the system’s points that communicate with the outside, managing users, and making sure only authorized users can perform actions on systems, data, and any assets belonging to the organization. Security also involves ensuring that the data and the systems are handled according to the rules and regulations enforced by law or voluntarily by the organization, while balancing costs and risks.

Security is a broad and specialized area. To fully understand the role of security in your overall architecture and the trade-offs involved, you often need to seek the help of a security architect. The following discussion has two goals. The first is to help you understand how security fits into ...