Summary

In this chapter, we’ve covered how you can extend your architectural design process into a broader program – that is, how to create a virtuous cycle whereby your process reinforces itself to achieve greater efficiency and better outcomes. We’ve also covered some of the best advice that we’ve received from the architects we interviewed to give you insight into what you can do to improve as an architect, and also what common missteps and pitfalls to avoid as you do your work.

Throughout this book, we’ve tried to map out a process that you can follow to create a cybersecurity architecture for the systems, applications, hosts, processes, and other elements of your technology ecosystem. We’ve tried to emphasize how to do this in an adaptive, flexible, and nimble way, both to help you tailor existing architectural frameworks to models such as DevOps and Agile, but also so that even if you’re not following an architectural framework...