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Cybersecurity Architect's Handbook

You're reading from   Cybersecurity Architect's Handbook An end-to-end guide to implementing and maintaining robust security architecture

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803235844
Length 494 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Lester Nichols Lester Nichols
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Table of Contents (20) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1:Foundations FREE CHAPTER
2. Chapter 1: Introduction to Cybersecurity 3. Chapter 2: Cybersecurity Foundation 4. Chapter 3: What Is a Cybersecurity Architect and What Are Their Responsibilities? 5. Part 2: Pathways
6. Chapter 4: Cybersecurity Architecture Principles, Design, and Analysis 7. Chapter 5: Threat, Risk, and Governance Considerations as an Architect 8. Chapter 6: Documentation as a Cybersecurity Architect – Valuable Resources and Guidance for a Cybersecurity Architect Role 9. Chapter 7: Entry-Level- to-Architect Roadmap 10. Chapter 8: The Certification Dilemma 11. Part 3: Advancements
12. Chapter 9: Decluttering the Toolset – Part 1 13. Chapter 10: Decluttering the Toolset – Part 2 14. Chapter 11: Best Practices 15. Chapter 12: Being Adaptable as a Cybersecurity Architect 16. Chapter 13: Architecture Considerations – Design, Development, and Other Security Strategies – Part 1 17. Chapter 14: Architecture Considerations – Design, Development, and Other Security Strategies – Part 2 18. Index 19. Other Books You May Enjoy

Access control

Adequate information and system security is a fundamental responsibility of management. Access control plays a vital role in nearly all applications that handle financial, privacy, safety, or defense-related data. It involves determining the permissible actions of authorized users and managing every attempt made by a user to access system resources. While some systems grant complete access after successful authentication, most systems require more sophisticated and complex control mechanisms. In addition to authentication, access control considers how authorizations are structured. This may involve aligning authorizations with the organization’s structure or basing them on the sensitivity of documents and the clearance level of users accessing them.

When organizations plan to implement an access control system, they need to consider three crucial abstractions: access control policies, models, and mechanisms.

Access control policies are overarching requirements...

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