Gotchas

“At the core of architecture, I think there’s two fundamental principles. First, there is architecture as a philosophy of how you think about a [security] function (a core component within an organization) in a way that understands and interprets the requirements for what it needs to perform. The second is the ability to communicate why that function is important. Using the example of a physical building, the architecture describes the safety aspects of why you need to build something in a particular way; for example, the assumptions of why having x number of bolts in a certain place makes the building more safe. It’s the same with security: if you understand the business you are in, and what safety means in that context, and clearly understand what security means to that business, architecture is about making that clear and describing it to others.”

– Phoram Mehta, Director and Head of Infosec APAC, PayPal

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