Terminology
Before we dive into the meat of this chapter, the first thing we should note is that we have made the conscious decision to use terminology that will be most immediately transparent and accessible to all readers. This, however, will not always be the exact same terminology used by many of the security architecture frameworks, standards, and guidance that you may encounter.
For example, one of the most important concepts in this section is understanding the goals of the organization and mapping those goals to security outcomes and principles, as we stated previously. It is quite literally the case that any security effort, whether architecture, operations, incident response, or any other discipline within security, exists solely to help enable the organization to fulfill its mission. In the case of a for-profit entity, such as a company, this might mean being profitable or providing value to shareholders. In the case of a philanthropic organization, it might mean providing...
