Execution – Future-Proofing

In the last chapter, we went through the planning and execution of your security implementation strategies – that is, establishing what they are and laying the groundwork for putting the plans into practice. In doing so, we made a subtle but very important presupposition: namely, that things would go according to plan. Of course, in the real world, this will very seldom be the case. More likely, something will go wrong somewhere along the journey from the inception to the realization of the best-laid plans.

This chapter, then, is all about planning for the unexpected – both for unexpected events arising during the execution portion of the design implementation and situations that might arise in the future so that designs stay current over time. There are several strategies that you can use to make sure that your design goals remain achievable when these situations occur. We’ll walk through several different types of events...