The process for setting scope

“You’re going to know some preliminaries about scope when you look at the environment from a data perspective. The data will help give you information about scope, as will your discussions with stakeholders. Data can drive decision-making around scope initially (due to frameworks), but keep in mind that you can expand scope as you go forward with the inclusion of additional data elements, other areas of the organization, or other business processes.”

– Dr. Richard Perez, vCISO

So, now that you understand why we are approaching it this way and what factors are driving this (both from an enterprise cybersecurity architecture viewpoint as well as in an application context), the next step is to outline a process or recipe that we can follow to make it happen.

Before we get into the details, we should point out that we’re in a little bit of a catch-22 situation when it comes to scope. On the one hand, until we can...