Identify Opportunities to Mature the Security Architecture

Prioritize your security architecture roadmap to drive business value.
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Major Business Pain Points

  • Organizations do not have a solid grasp on the complexity of their infrastructure and are unaware of the overall risk to their infrastructure posed by inadequate security.
  • Organizations do not understand how to properly create and deliver value propositions of technical security solutions.
Identify Opportunities to Mature the Security Architecture-Pain Points

Recommendations

Key Points

  • The security architecture is a living, breathing thing based on the risk profile of your organization.
  • Compliance and risk mitigation create an intertwined relationship between the business and your security architecture. The security architecture roadmap must be regularly assessed and continuously maintained to ensure security controls align with organizational objectives.

Approach

Identify Opportunities to Mature the Security Architecture-Recommendations
  • A right-sized security architecture can be created by assessing the complexity of the IT department, the operations currently underway for security, and the perceived value of a security architecture within the organization. This will bring about a deeper understanding of the organizational infrastructure.
  • Developing a security architecture should also result in a list of opportunities (i.e. initiatives) that an organization can integrate into a roadmap. These initiatives will seek to improve security operations and strengthen the IT department’s understanding of security’s role within the organization.
  • A better understanding of the infrastructure will help to save time on determining the correct technologies required from vendors and therefore cut down on the amount of vendor noise.
  • Creating a defensible roadmap will assist with justifying future security spend.
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Methodology and Tools

Executive Brief

Read the concise Executive Brief to find out why you should develop a right-sized security architecture and review the methodology.

  • Identify Opportunities to Mature the Security Architecture – Executive Brief
  • Identify Opportunities to Mature the Security Architecture – Phases 1-2

1. Identify the organization’s ideal security architecture

Complete the unique assessments to define the ideal security architecture maturity for your organization.

  • Identify Opportunities to Mature the Security Architecture – Phase 1: Identify the Organization's Ideal Security Architecture
  • Security Architecture Recommendation Tool

2. Create a security program roadmap

Use the results of the assessments from Phase 1 of this research to create a roadmap for improving the security program.

  • Identify Opportunities to Mature the Security Architecture – Phase 2: Create a Security Program Roadmap

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