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

Product type Paperback

Published in Mar 2024

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803235844

Length 494 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Concepts

Cybersecurity

Author (1):

Lester Nichols

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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

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

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The Certification Dilemma

“Foreknowledge cannot be gotten from ghosts and spirits, cannot be had by analogy, cannot be found out by calculation. It must be obtained from people, people who know the conditions of the enemy.”

– Sun Tzu

“Thus we may know that there are five essentials for victory: (1) He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight; (2) he will win who knows how to handle both superior and inferior forces; (3) he will win whose army is animated by the same spirit throughout all its ranks; (4) he will win who, prepared himself, waits to take the enemy unprepared; (5) he will win who has military capacity and is not interfered with by the sovereign.”

– Sun Tzu

The previous chapter provided a comprehensive roadmap for advancing through the cybersecurity field, from entry-level positions to the esteemed cybersecurity architect role.

It stressed that while foundational security concepts seem basic initially...