Cybersecurity Architecture Principles, Design, and Analysis

“Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.”

– Sun Tzu

In the previous chapter, we covered the role of the cybersecurity architect and their responsibilities to help prepare and understand the scope of what a cybersecurity architect may do within an organization. In this chapter, the discussion will shift to the principles, design, and analysis of cybersecurity architecture.

Cybersecurity architecture is a technical architecture that focuses on achieving specific security goals. Essentially, it focuses on how to systematically, holistically, and repeatedly implement solutions that meet an organization’s security and compliance requirements.

You may have noticed I have been using quotes from Sun Tzu’s Art of War at the beginning of each chapter. This is in part because people are more familiar with Sun Tzu’s Art of War than...