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What is Security Architecture?

According to the Dragon1 open EA method, Security Architecture is the coherent set of security concepts (or security capabilities) of your organization.

Depending on your strategy and business model, you need certain security concepts to be implemented at a certain maturity level.

Security Architecture is the description and visualization of how an organization's security controls (= security countermeasures) are positioned and how they relate to the overall systems architecture.

These security controls serve the purpose of maintaining the system's quality attributes such as confidentiality, integrity, and availability (CIA).

Security architecture is a conceptual security blueprint of the organization as the bridge between the strategy and transformation of the organization.

Today, security plays a vital role in the Enterprise Governance of an organization. Dragon1 helps to get Security Architecture linked to the governance processes, IT policies, and IT auditing and supports CxOs in selecting appropriate measures.

Read more about Security Architecture in the Resources section.

Building Common Insights to Enable Impactful Decisions

To have a group of key stakeholders gain common insights and overview of the current security situation and be ready to make impactful decisions for the organization's benefit and future, more and more organizations visualize their security architecture with specific visualizations, called management report views.

Security Architecture and Concept

To create security architecture and concepts:

• Go to the Collaboration application
• Go to the Data Manager
• Click the Architectures panel
• Click the Add button
• Enter a name for a Security Architecture
• Click Save & Close
• Go back to the Data Manager of the Collaboration application
• Click the Concepts panel
• Click the Add button
• Enter a name for a security concept (for instance: Roles Based Access Control, DMZ, Email Spoofing, or Data Hiding)
• Click Save & Close

Security Architecture Principle and Capabilitiy

To create security architecture principles and capabilities

• Go to the Collaboration application
• Go to the Data Manager
• Click the Principles panel
• Click the Add button
• Enter a name for a principle
• Click Save & Close
• Go back to the Data Manager of the Collaboration application
• Click the Capabilities panel
• Click the Add button
• Enter a name for a capability
• Click Save & Close

Security Architecture Model

To create security architecture models:

• Go to the Collaboration application
• Go to the Data Manager
• Click the Models panel
• Click the Add button
• Enter a name for a model
• Click Save & Close

Relationships

To create a relationship between the created data entities:

• Go to the Data Dashboard in the Collaboration application
• Select a Panel (respectively the previous panels)
• Select your created data entity in the list
• Click Add Relationship
• Select the model the relationship should be part of
• Select the entity class and entity name to link to the data entity
• Select a relationship type
• Click Save & Close

Security Views

Create the following common security views:

• Management Overview – How well are the top 10 key strategic security measures taken
• Roadmap View – When are certain security measures going to be implemented and what will What part of the IT infrastructure will the impact be?
• Security Data Breach View – Where, when, why, and how did security data breaches affect our IT infrastructure (networks and components), Data, and IT System?
• GDPR View – How well do we align with the GDPR rules for private and sensitive data?
• Confidentiality View – How well do we secure, provide, and maintain the business-required confidentiality of the IT infrastructure, Data, and IT systems?
• Integrity View – How well do we secure, provide, and maintain the business-required integrity of the IT infrastructure, Data, and IT systems?
• Availability View – How well do we secure, provide, and maintain the business-required availability of the IT infrastructure, Data, and IT systems?
• Skills & Education View – What knowledge and skills do we have or do we need to gain/develop, as is required by the security architecture, to maintain a secure IT operation?
• Documentation View – Which parts of the IT infrastructure are documented as mandatory?
• Compliance View – Which IT infrastructure components, data, and systems are (not) compliant with the standards?
• Business Process View – Which (lack of) compliance on standards in the IT infrastructure has (positive/negative) impact on certain processes?

All the visualizations show relationships and dependencies between IT components within a context.

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