I've been working through the second edition of the Cybersecurity Architect's Handbook's "secret menu" one domain at a time...the controls that still mean something after everything else has fallen. This installment does something different...it looks down at the ground all of them are standing on.
Every control we design as architects ultimately serves one of two questions. Who is allowed to do what — and is the data still protected ... Access control answers the first. Data protection answers the second. Together they form the innermost ring of a defense-in-depth architecture...
Every query a device makes is a statement of intent — what it wanted to reach, when, and how often — and once you're logging them, you're no longer just blocking bad names. You're watching behavior....
Alongside the printed edition, the book's associated GitHub repository holds over 700 more pages of supplementary content and hands-on labs...
I'm thrilled to share that the second edition of the Cybersecurity Architect's Handbook is officially out in the world.
The Second Edition of the Cybersecurity Architect's Handbook: An Architect's Guide to Designing, Building, and Defending the Modern Enterprise is now available for pre-order on Amazon.
When the first edition of Cybersecurity Architect's Handbook: An End-to-End Guide to Implementing and Maintaining Robust Security Architecture hit shelves, the goal was ambitious but clear...
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