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Practical Cybersecurity Architecture

You're reading from   Practical Cybersecurity Architecture A guide to creating and implementing robust designs for cybersecurity architects

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838989927
Length 418 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Diana Kelley Diana Kelley
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Ed Moyle Ed Moyle
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1:Security Architecture
2. Chapter 1: What is Cybersecurity Architecture? FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: The Core of Solution Building 4. Section 2: Building an Architecture
5. Chapter 3: Building an Architecture – Scope and Requirements 6. Chapter 4: Building an Architecture – Your Toolbox 7. Chapter 5: Building an Architecture – Developing Enterprise Blueprints 8. Chapter 6: Building an Architecture – Application Blueprints 9. Section 3:Execution
10. Chapter 7: Execution – Applying Architecture Models 11. Chapter 8: Execution – Future-Proofing 12. Chapter 9: Putting It All Together 13. Other Books You May Enjoy

Chapter 3: Building an Architecture – Scope and Requirements

In the last chapter, we went through how to establish the "laws of the universe" that establish context for our architecture design work. Specifically, we examined the nuances of the organization that have the potential to guide or constrain our designs or their subsequent execution. This includes the organization's risk tolerances, goals, compliance requirements, context, business, and anything else that may play a role in the overall approach.

All these things are important, but as you might imagine, they are not the entirety of what you need to know to actually plan and field a design. In fact, it's not even everything you need to know to lay out a full set of requirements or specifications in a systematic way.

In this chapter, we'll look at the following topics:

  • Understanding scope
  • Setting architectural scope
  • Scope – enterprise security
  • Scope –...
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