Open Enterprise Security Architecture O-ESA


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Information Security professionals today have to be able to demonstrate their security strategies within clearly demonstrable frameworks, and show how these are driven by their organization's business priorities, derived from sound risk management assessments. This Open Enterprise Security Architecture (O-ESA) Guide provides a valuable reference resource for practising security architects and designers explaining the key security issues, terms, principles, components, and concepts underlying security-related decisions that security architects and designers have to make. In doing so it helps in explaining their security architectures and related decision-making processes to their enterprise architecture colleagues. The description avoids excessively technical presentation of the issues and concepts, so making it also an eminently digestible reference for business managers - enabling them to appreciate, validate, and balance the security architecture viewpoints along with all the other viewpoints involved in creating a comprehensive enterprise IT architecture.




Secure-by-Design Enterprise Architectures and Business Processes in Supply Chains. Handling Threats from Physical Transport Goods in Parcel Mail Services


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Supply chain security encompasses measures preventing theft, smuggling, and sabotage through heightened awareness, enhanced visibility, and increased transparency. This necessitates the adoption of a security-by-design paradigm to achieve effective and efficient security measures, yielding additional benefits such as diminished supply chain costs. Given their vulnerability, transportation and logistics service providers play a pivotal role in supply chain security. This thesis leverages systems security engineering and security-by-design to provide a methodology for designing and evaluating security measures for physical transport goods. It formulates nine principles that define security-by-design and establishes a supply chain security framework. An adaptation of the TOGAF architecture development facilitates the creation of secure-by-design enterprise architectures. Security measures are documented using security-enhanced processes based on BPMN. This enables an analysis and compliance assessment to ascertain the alignment of security with business objectives and the adequate implementation of requirements. The culmination of these efforts is exemplified through a case study.




Practical Cybersecurity Architecture


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Plan and design robust security architectures to secure your organization's technology landscape and the applications you develop Key Features Leverage practical use cases to successfully architect complex security structures Learn risk assessment methodologies for the cloud, networks, and connected devices Understand cybersecurity architecture to implement effective solutions in medium-to-large enterprises Book DescriptionCybersecurity architects work with others to develop a comprehensive understanding of the business' requirements. They work with stakeholders to plan designs that are implementable, goal-based, and in keeping with the governance strategy of the organization. With this book, you'll explore the fundamentals of cybersecurity architecture: addressing and mitigating risks, designing secure solutions, and communicating with others about security designs. The book outlines strategies that will help you work with execution teams to make your vision a concrete reality, along with covering ways to keep designs relevant over time through ongoing monitoring, maintenance, and continuous improvement. As you progress, you'll also learn about recognized frameworks for building robust designs as well as strategies that you can adopt to create your own designs. By the end of this book, you will have the skills you need to be able to architect solutions with robust security components for your organization, whether they are infrastructure solutions, application solutions, or others.What you will learn Explore ways to create your own architectures and analyze those from others Understand strategies for creating architectures for environments and applications Discover approaches to documentation using repeatable approaches and tools Delve into communication techniques for designs, goals, and requirements Focus on implementation strategies for designs that help reduce risk Become well-versed with methods to apply architectural discipline to your organization Who this book is for If you are involved in the process of implementing, planning, operating, or maintaining cybersecurity in an organization, then this security book is for you. This includes security practitioners, technology governance practitioners, systems auditors, and software developers invested in keeping their organizations secure. If you’re new to cybersecurity architecture, the book takes you through the process step by step; for those who already work in the field and have some experience, the book presents strategies and techniques that will help them develop their skills further.




Using the IBM Security Framework and IBM Security Blueprint to Realize Business-Driven Security


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Security is a major consideration in the way that business and information technology systems are designed, built, operated, and managed. The need to be able to integrate security into those systems and the discussions with business functions and operations exists more than ever. This IBM® Redbooks® publication explores concerns that characterize security requirements of, and threats to, business and information technology (IT) systems. This book identifies many business drivers that illustrate these concerns, including managing risk and cost, and compliance to business policies and external regulations. This book shows how these drivers can be translated into capabilities and security needs that can be represented in frameworks, such as the IBM Security Blueprint, to better enable enterprise security. To help organizations with their security challenges, IBM created a bridge to address the communication gap between the business and technical perspectives of security to enable simplification of thought and process. The IBM Security Framework can help you translate the business view, and the IBM Security Blueprint describes the technology landscape view. Together, they can help bring together the experiences that we gained from working with many clients to build a comprehensive view of security capabilities and needs. This book is intended to be a valuable resource for business leaders, security officers, and consultants who want to understand and implement enterprise security by considering a set of core security capabilities and services.




Security Architecture for Hybrid Cloud


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As the transformation to hybrid multicloud accelerates, businesses require a structured approach to securing their workloads. Adopting zero trust principles demands a systematic set of practices to deliver secure solutions. Regulated businesses, in particular, demand rigor in the architectural process to ensure the effectiveness of security controls and continued protection. This book provides the first comprehensive method for hybrid multicloud security, integrating proven architectural techniques to deliver a comprehensive end-to-end security method with compliance, threat modeling, and zero trust practices. This method ensures repeatability and consistency in the development of secure solution architectures. Architects will learn how to effectively identify threats and implement countermeasures through a combination of techniques, work products, and a demonstrative case study to reinforce learning. You'll examine: The importance of developing a solution architecture that integrates security for clear communication Roles that security architects perform and how the techniques relate to nonsecurity subject matter experts How security solution architecture is related to design thinking, enterprise security architecture, and engineering How architects can integrate security into a solution architecture for applications and infrastructure using a consistent end-to-end set of practices How to apply architectural thinking to the development of new security solutions About the authors Mark Buckwell is a cloud security architect at IBM with 30 years of information security experience. Carsten Horst with more than 20 years of experience in Cybersecurity is a certified security architect and Associate Partner at IBM. Stefaan Van daele has 25 years experience in Cybersecurity and is a Level 3 certified security architect at IBM.




The Open FAIRTM Body of Knowledge - A Pocket Guide


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This pocket guide provides a first introduction to the Open FAIR Body of Knowledge. It will be of interest to individuals who require a basic understanding of the Open FAIR Body of Knowledge, and professionals who are working in roles associated with a risk analysis project, such as those responsible for information system security planning, execution, development, delivery, and operation. The Open FAIR Body of Knowledge provides a taxonomy and method for understanding, analyzing and measuring information risk. The outcomes are more cost-effective information risk management, greater credibility for the information security profession, and a foundation from which to develop a scientific approach to information risk management. This allows organizations to: Speak in one language concerning their risk Consistently study and apply risk analysis principles to any object or asset View organizational risk in total Challenge and defend risk decisions The audience for this Pocket Guide is: Individuals who require a basic understanding of the Open FAIR Body of Knowledge Professionals who are working in roles associated with a risk analysis project, such as those responsible for information system security planning, execution, development, delivery, and operation Risk analysts who are looking for a first introduction to the Open FAIR Body of Knowledge




Practical Cybersecurity Architecture


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Plan, design, and build resilient security architectures to secure your organization's hybrid networks, cloud-based workflows, services, and applications 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 DescriptionCybersecurity 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 forThis 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.




Secure ICT Service Provisioning for Cloud, Mobile and Beyond


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This book describes new methods and measures which enable ICT service providers and large IT departments to provide secure ICT services in an industrialized IT production environment characterized by rigorous specialization, standardization and division of labor along the complete supply chain. This book is also for suppliers playing their role in this industry. Even more important, user organizations are given deep insight in secure IT production which allows them to make the best out of cloud, mobile and beyond. This book presents a new organization and classification scheme being thoroughly modular and hierarchical. It contains a security taxonomy that organizes all aspects of modern industrialized IT production. The approach takes operational requirements into account and focuses on user requirements, thus facing the reality in the market economy. Despite cost pressure, providers must ensure security by exploiting economies of scale to raise the efficiency also with respect to security. Furthermore, this book describes a wealth of security measures derived from real-world challenges in IT production and IT service management.




The TOGAF® Enterprise Architecture Foundation Study Guide


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The TOGAF® Standard, a standard of The Open Group, is a proven Enterprise Architecture methodology and framework used by the world’s leading organizations to improve business efficiency. The TOGAF Certification Program has enabled more than 100,000 Enterprise Architects and trainers around the globe to demonstrate their proven knowledge of the framework and method. This is the book you need to prepare for the TOGAF Enterprise Architecture Foundation qualification. This edition is aligned to the TOGAF Standard, 10th Edition. It includes an overview of every learning outcome included in the TOGAF Enterprise Architecture Level 1 Syllabus and in-depth coverage on preparing and taking the TOGAF Enterprise Architecture Part 1 examination. It includes Key Learning Points, and challenging Test Yourself questions for each part of the syllabus, together with a Test Yourself examination paper that you can use to test your readiness to take the official TOGAF Enterprise Architecture Part 1 examination. The audience for this Study Guide is: Individuals who need a basic understanding of a proven Enterprise Architecture methodology Professionals who work for or join an organization applying the TOGAF Standard Individuals who need to start to learn the TOGAF method Individuals who want to achieve the TOGAF® Enterprise Architecture Practitioner qualification in a stepwise manner, or other certifications and certification credentials from The Open Group where this certification is a prerequisite A prior knowledge of Enterprise Architecture is advantageous but not required. Topics covered include: An introduction to TOGAF certification and the TOGAF Enterprise Architecture Foundation qualification, including the TOGAF Enterprise Architecture Part 1 examination The concepts of Enterprise Architecture and the TOGAF Standard The key terminology of the TOGAF Standard The Architecture Development Method (ADM) cycle and the objectives of each phase, and how to adapt and scope the ADM for use The techniques available to support the ADM Applying the ADM, including iteration, partitioning, and application in a digital enterprise How Architecture Governance contributes to architecture development Architecture content – the outputs produced while executing the ADM




The TOGAF® Standard, 10th Edition - Enterprise Agility and Digital Transformation


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This document is the Enterprise Agility and Digital Transformation TOGAF Series Guide Set. It contains two TOGAF Series Guides that have been developed and approved by The Open Group, and is part of the TOGAF Standard, 10th Edition. TOGAF® Series Guide: Enabling Enterprise Agility This document is designed to help Enterprise Architects requiring information on how to adapt and use the TOGAF framework to support an Agile enterprise. It covers the following topics: An introduction to the topic, including what is meant by agility, the role of Enterprise Architecture, and how it relates to agility The terms and definitions used in the document The TOGAF Architecture Development Method (ADM) and how that relates to agility How architecture activities can be structured to support agility How to execute Enterprise Architecture in an Agile environment TOGAF® Series Guide: Using the TOGAF® Standard in the Digital Enterprise This document is written those undertaking the roles of both Enterprise Architect and Digital Practitioner. For Digital Practitioners, it communicates what architecture practices would help to grow their digital enterprise, and how to interact with the Enterprise Architecture community to get them. For those undertaking an Enterprise Architect role, it provides guidance on supporting the digital enterprise. It covers the following topics: A high-level introduction to how established Enterprise Architecture practices bring value to digital enterprises at all scales How Enterprise Architecture and the TOGAF Standard bring valuable tools to digital enterprises of all sizes Alignment of terminology between the TOGAF Standard and the Digital Practitioner Body of KnowledgeTM Applying Enterprise Architecture and the TOGAF Standard to the contexts described in the DPBoKTM Standard