Security Architecture Design

The disciplined design of enterprise security architecture has become a business imperative. It is crucial that business and government entities proactively organize and activate an organization’s people, processes, and technology to mitigate the risk of security breaches. Disciplined security architecture design prepares the owner for implementing measures that lessen the likelihood of a successful security breach. It also enables them to effectively respond when breaches do occur.

Another benefit of disciplined security architecture is that it ensures that security considerations permeate all aspects of an enterprise; this establishes a security awareness and consideration of the design of risk mitigation measures, to be included in the composition of the organization’s business, information, application and technology architectures. Effective security architecture design requires consideration of an organization’s business operational processes and its general business requirements. There are other drivers that influence the development of security architecture including the following:

• Financial concerns
• Risk management concerns
• Legal and regulatory compliance
• Benchmarking against industry best practices

The enterprise security architecture blueprint is a key deliverable of the security architecture design process. The NFF security architecture design approach integrates comprehensive consideration of the target entity’s enterprise architecture (EA). Each EA component will be evaluated and security requirements pertinent to each component will be determined.

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