Security Architecture
May 20, 2025 2025-06-17 15:27Security Architecture
Security Architecture
Welcome to one of the only industry- and product-neutral offerings to build the architectural practice of security professionals!
As an architect in the information security space, you need to balance the core security professional considerations like risk and technology with the business, communication, and design skills that define the architect role. This course supplements your career experience and technical excellence in security disciplines to grow the complementary skills that help your security programs communicate risk, structure remedies, evaluate options, and respond quickly to business changes.
Competency Focus Areas
- Foundational Security Architect
- Architecture of Risk and Options
- Capabilities and Requirements
- Security Design and Patterns
- Roadmaps, Communication and Process
- Soft Skills and Leadership
Who is this course for?
Candidates for this class should have completed the foundational training of the IASA Global Architect Core class or have equivalent knowledge and experience. Such experience would include the ability to identify stakeholders, define and measure the concept of value, complete many common solutions design diagrams and approaches, and do capability assessment in a limited complexity program for a new technology or application. An architect will get the most value out of this course if in current or prior roles, they have been asked to form a set of requirements and deliver a solution to an operations team for your organization or a client.
What you'll learn
You will be able to think about technological solutions in the context of your business – or your customer’s business – and communicate them with a variety of levels of stakeholders. You will be able to position security as part of the opportunity and innovation cycle at your company or in your market, and you will have new tools for quickly evaluating and communicating security program steps that can be put into practice to deliver lower risk and better business outcomes.
Section 1
Introduction to the Security Architect
The role of the security architect is a unique one in the larger field of architecture, as the architect is required to transcend elements of software, infrastructure, information, and enterprise architecture to address a set of unique business challenges and stakeholder concerns.
Section 2
Architecture of Risk and Options
The Security Architect seeks to align business outcomes, mitigate potential risk, and evaluate options when the identified risks are greater than the organization’s willingness to tolerate that risk.
Section 3
Capabilities and Requirements
Extend the core architectural knowledge of capability documentation and selection for a business or technology system with the domain specific information of security.
Section 4
Security Design and Patterns
Use design and systems-oriented thinking to design and describe an architectural approach and one or more technologies to the organization. Consistent design practices will help consistency and scalability in designing the solutions to be consumed in the organization.
Section 5
Roadmaps, Communication and Process
Use common tools from change management, quality management, and project management disciplines to manage a security program, build stakeholder relationships, and convey status or needed action to organizational audiences or your customers.
Section 6
Assessment and Improvement
The architecture discipline should result in repeatable assessment of business and technology concerns in the security organization. Use industry tools to assess and assert differences between required capabilities and the capabilities of a given program or toolset. Convey those differences in a repeatable way, contributing to audit or risk management activities.
Section 7
Putting It All Together
Finally, we reflect on the techniques and approaches in this course and address final questions that might have occurred from architectural experience applying techniques learned.
Teaching Modalities
- 3 days
- 2 lessons per day
- Full time
- 45 min presentation
- 45 min workshops with. group
- Classroom
- Classwork – Miro
- Course Material – MS Teams
- 3 weeks
- 2 hrs per week plus homework Total 6 hrs/wk
- 45 min lessons
- 1 hr group work
- Homework
- Final presentation to instructor for grade
- Online (Teams)
- Homework – Miro
- Course Material – MS Teams
Maintaining your IASA certification
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