Chapter 5: Building an Architecture – Developing Enterprise Blueprints

Assuming you've been following along, believe it or not but at this point, you have all the ingredients and raw materials you'll need to complete your design. In Chapter 3, Building an Architecture – Scope and Requirements, we went through developing the initial baseline scope that you will use to create your design, while in the previous chapter, we looked at the tools that you might want to have in your toolbox as you ideate, document, and field your design.

This chapter, on the other hand, is all about crafting and documenting your vision. This is the information that will let you plan, validate, and document the blueprint that targets the security goals you have within the defined scope, as well as plan around any preexisting constraints.

Throughout this chapter, we'll put those elements together and go through the elements of the enterprise cybersecurity architecture planning...