IT Security Architecture
Combining our definitions of IT Security and IT Architecture gives us a comprehensive definition of IT Security Architecture.
Combining our definitions of IT Security and IT Architecture gives us a comprehensive definition of IT Security Architecture.
Definitions
- IT Security
- The IT system's ability to protect confidentiality and integrity of processed data, provide availability of the system and data, accountability for transactions processed, and assurance that the system will continue to perform to its design goals.
- IT Architecture
- A set of design artifacts that are relevant for describing an object such that it can be produced to requirements (quality) as well as maintained over the period of its useful life (change).
- IT Security Architecture
- The design artifacts that describe how the security controls (countermeasures) are positioned, and how they relate to the overall IT Architecture. These controls serve the purpose to maintain the system's quality attributes: confidentiality, integrity, availability, accountability and assurance.