Cybersecurity Architecture Blueprint tutorial

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This tutorial introduces how you can make use of Dragon1 to create Cybersecurity Architecture Blueprints.

Cybersecurity views following the steps in the Cybersecurity Architecture Blueprint tutorial.

What is a Cybersecurity Architecture Blueprint?

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

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

Organization's Cybersecurity Controls

Cybersecurity architecture blueprints describe and visualize how an organization's cybersecurity controls (= security countermeasures) are positioned and how they relate to the overall systems architecture.

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

Today, cybersecurity plays a vital role in the enterprise governance of an organization. Dragon1 helps to link enterprise cybersecurity architecture to governance processes, IT policies, and IT auditing, and supports CxOs in selecting appropriate measures.

Read more about Security Architectures in the Resources section.

Building Common Insights to Enable Impactful Decisions

To have a group of key stakeholders gain common insights and an 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 enterprise cybersecurity architecture with specific visualizations called management report views.

Cybersecurity Reference Architecture Blueprint.

Cybersecurity Views

Create the following common cybersecurity views:

• Management Overviews – How well are the top 10 key strategic cybersecurity measures being implemented?
• Roadmap View – When are certain cybersecurity measures going to be implemented, and what part of the IT infrastructure will be impacted?
• Security Data Breach View – Where, when, why, and how did security data breaches affect our IT infrastructure (networks and components), Data, and IT systems?
• GDPR View – 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 Data, IT infrastructure, and IT systems?
• Availability View – How well do we secure, provide, and maintain the business-required availability of the IT Systems, Data, and IT infrastructure?
• Skills & Education View – What knowledge and skills do we have or do we need to gain/develop, as is required by the enterprise cybersecurity 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 with standards in the IT infrastructure has a (positive/negative) impact on certain processes?

Microsoft Cybersecurity Architecture Example

All cybersecurity architecture blueprints show relationships and dependencies between IT components within a context.

Create the Microsoft Cybersecurity Architecture on Dragon1 platform.