Planning tools

"Every company can benefit from architecture work. For a large enterprise certainly, but even for a small business there's value. For a small or mid-size business, the organization may wish to think through timelines and documentation requirements as, in a small organization, there may be fewer stakeholders to meet with, allowing you to accomplish a lot in a relatively short period of time. Also, while a larger organization might require more documentation of architectural efforts, a smaller organization might be able to make do with less. The process itself though can provide value no matter the size of the organization."

– Dr. Char Sample, chief research scientist at the cybercore division at Idaho National Laboratory

From a planning point of view, there are a number of tools that we can employ to help guide us toward a security design. Some are useful right from the get-go; others are useful later on as we get into the execution piece of...