Cybersecurity Foundations: Security Architecture

Course details

Enterprise Security Architects as well as other cybersecurity and IT professionals are awash with marketing buzzwords and bombarded by security products and services whose functions can be extremely hard to decipher. Cloud, the platformization of IT, and growing market pressures are driving product categories that have partially overlapping functionality and lead to inefficient and potentially ineffective architectures. The reality is that these solutions can be deconstructed and recomposed to rationalize and optimize a cybersecurity architecture if one understands the basic types of cybersecurity functions and their use cases within an enterprise.

This course provides a “building blocks” approach to enterprise security architecture that defines its components and functions in logical ways that can be leveraged throughout an enterprise with all of its data centers, clouds, and networks and incorporating all of its digital use cases.

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Protect your enterprise with the four disciplines of cybersecurity
02 - A brief introduction to security architecture frameworks
03 - A function and component-based approach to security architecture
04 - The four disciplines of cybersecurity

1. Developing Your Identity Management Program

05 - Generating your identity management objectives
06 - Collecting your core identity management capabilities
07 - Assembling your identity management platform

2. Developing Your Vulnerability Management Program

08 - Generating your vulnerability management objectives
09 - Collecting your core vulnerability management capabilities
10 - Assembling your vulnerability management platform

3. Developing Your Threat Management Program

11 - Generating your threat management objectives
12 - Collecting your core threat management capabilities
13 - Assembling your threat management platform

4. Developing Your Trust Management Program

14 - Generating your trust management objectives
15 - Collecting your core trust management capabilities
16 - Assembling your trust management platform

5. Developing Security Architecture Patterns

17 - Building an enterprise reference security architecture
18 - Building a zero trust architecture

Conclusion

19 - Next steps