Your Cybersecurity Architecture Foundation

Next, we will shift our focus to the architecture strategy that will be used to secure your organization. As you pull the layers back from the broader architecture strategy for the organization, you will find architecture foundations will be in place for your applications, network, infrastructure, data, etc. The same applies to cybersecurity – a well-defined architecture strategy and foundation must be adopted. This ensures that your program follows best practices and defined standards to reduce risk.

Before we discuss the architecture foundation for your cybersecurity program, it is important to touch upon the core principles that form an information security model. In essence, the architecture foundation and strategy that you adopt is what will be used to best protect the core principles. If you are not aware, these principles are known as the CIA triad, which stands for Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability. If you have...