Название: Security Architecture: A practical guide to designing proactive and resilient cyber protection
Автор: Jeremy Green
Издательство: BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT
Год: 2025
Страниц: 230
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true), epub
Размер: 10.7 MB, 13.5 MB

Security Architecture is a driver for proactive, strategic, and comprehensive protection. Understand how to think like an attacker, design like an architect, and implement with the precision of an engineer.

With an ever changing security landscape defined by escalating cyber threats and unprecedented vulnerabilities, Security Architecture stands as an essential guide to understand how good security architecture prevents breaches. Whether you are a seasoned security professional or an emerging architect, this book equips you with the knowledge and tools to build resilient, future-proof security architectures that not only helps anticipate attacks but actively thwart them proving its value to the organisation.

Delve into a world where technology and strategy converge. Blueprints for defence are designed to evolve as fast as the threats they combat. Understand the principles behind zero trust, PAM, adaptive defences, and the integration of security into agile environments. Through real-world case studies, from critical infrastructure breaches to sophisticated supply chain attacks, this book provides actionable insights to help you navigate the complex landscape of modern cybersecurity.

Security architects often work on critical projects such as overhauling security architecture to meet modern standards, implementing cloud security measures or rolling out zero trust strategy. Their projects may also involve automating threat detection and response or designing comprehensive defence-in-depth strategies. Projects will often use a variety of tools and technologies, including SIEM, endpoint detection platforms, IAM solutions and threat intelligence platforms. They also need to understand not only what these are, but how best to implement and use them. Security architects typically have a background in roles such as security analyst or engineer and often pursue certifications such as Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH), CISM, CISSP, TOGAF or specialised cloud security certifications to advance their careers.

This book is designed for aspiring and current security architects, cyber engineers or information security specialists who wish to deepen their understanding of security architecture, develop their ability to apply concepts in practice and enhance their leadership skills. It blends theoretical foundations with practical applications to ensure you can address the complex and ever-changing landscape of security. Information Security Management Principles fourth edition is recommended reading for its underpinning knowledge, which this book directly builds on. This book also assumes that you have a solid technical understanding of IT, including networks and basics of IT security.

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