Practical Cybersecurity Architecture: A guide to creating and implementing robust designs for cybersecurity architects

Key Features

• Understand the role of the architect in successfully creating complex security structures
• Learn methodologies for creating architecture documentation, engaging stakeholders, and implementing designs
• Understand how to refine and improve architecture methodologies to meet business challenges
• Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook

Book Description

Cybersecurity architecture is the discipline of systematically ensuring that an organization is resilient against cybersecurity threats. Cybersecurity architects work in tandem with stakeholders to create a vision for security in the organization and create designs that are implementable, goal-based, and aligned with the organization’s governance strategy.

Within this book, you'll learn the fundamentals of cybersecurity architecture as a practical discipline. These fundamentals are evergreen approaches that, once mastered, can be applied and adapted to new and emerging technologies like artificial intelligence and machine learning. You’ll learn how to address and mitigate risks, design secure solutions in a purposeful and repeatable way, communicate with others about security designs, and bring designs to fruition. This new edition outlines strategies to help you work with execution teams to make your vision a reality, along with ways of keeping designs relevant over time. As you progress, you'll also learn about well-known frameworks for building robust designs and strategies that you can adopt to create your own designs.

By the end of this book, you’ll have the foundational skills required to build infrastructure, cloud, AI, and application solutions for today and well into the future with robust security components for your organization.

What you will learn

• Create your own architectures and analyze different models
• Understand strategies for creating architectures for environments and applications
• Discover approaches to documentation using repeatable approaches and tools
• Discover different communication techniques for designs, goals, and requirements
• Focus on implementation strategies for designs that help reduce risk
• Apply architectural discipline to your organization using best practices

Who this book is for

This book is for new as well as seasoned cybersecurity architects looking to explore and polish their cybersecurity architecture skills. Additionally, anyone involved in the process of implementing, planning, operating, or maintaining cybersecurity in an organization can benefit from this book. If you are a security practitioner, systems auditor, and (to a lesser extent) software developer invested in keeping your organization secure, this book will act as a reference guide.

Table of Contents

1. What is Cybersecurity Architecture?
2. Architecture – The Core of Solution Building
3. Building an Architecture – Scope and Requirements
4. Building an Architecture – Your Toolbox
5. Building an Architecture – Developing Enterprise Blueprints
6. Building an Architecture – Application Blueprints
7. Execution – Applying Architecture Models
8. Execution – Future-Proofing
9. Putting It All Together

Diana Kelley is CISO at Protect AI. She serves on the boards of WiCyS, the Executive Women’s Forum, InfoSec World, and TechTarget Security. She was Cybersecurity Field CTO at Microsoft, Global Executive Security Advisor at IBM Security, GM at Symantec, VP at Burton Group, Manager at KPMG, and Chief vCISO at SaltCybersecurity.

Her extensive volunteer work has included serving on the ACM Ethics & Plagiarism Committee, Cybersecurity Advisor at CompTIA, and the RSAC Program Committee. She hosts BrightTALK’s The Security Balancing Act, co authored Practical Cybersecurity Architecture and Cryptographic Libraries for Developers, and teaches LinkedIn Learning Security in AI and ML. Her awards include EWF Executive of the Year and SCMedia Power Player.

Ed Moyle is a partner with SecurityCurve and Systems and Software Security Director for Taxwell. In his 25 years in information security, Ed has held numerous positions, including Director of Thought Leadership and Research for ISACA, Senior Security Strategist with Savvis, Senior Manager with CTG, and Vice President and Information Security Officer for Merrill Lynch Investment Managers. Ed is the co-author of Cryptographic Libraries for Developers and Practical Cybersecurity Architecture. He is a frequent contributor to the information security industry as an author, public speaker, and analyst