Enterprise Security Architecture

Using Enterprise Architecture Framework to Design Network Security Architecture

-In the recent years, Information Technology (IT) has come to play an important, and often vital, role in almost all aspects of the life and so there is a growing role and importance for the enterprise architecture (EA) in the management of the organizations. Network security architecture, which can be referred as a comprehensive description of all of the key elements and relationships that mak...

Enterprise Security Planning using the Zachman Framework – Builder’s Perspective

In recent years enterprise architecture (EA) has acquired recognition as playing a pivotal role in change processes. Purported benefits of having enterprise architecture include improved decision making, improved adaptability to changing demands or market conditions, elimination of inefficient and redundant processes, optimization of the use of organizational assets and effectively achieve curr...

A Service Oriented Security Reference Architecture

Nowadays, service-oriented architecture (SOA) is used as an efficient solution to integrate distributed applications in an enterprise. In a SOA-based environment, security is one of the most important issues that must be considered on account of loosely coupled nature of SOA. However, there are several approaches and technologies for securing services such as WS-Security, SAML, and etc. SOA bri...

Business Security Architecture: Weaving Information Security into Your Organization's Enterprise Architecture through SABSA®

Issues in the Security Architecture of the Computerized Patient Record Enterprise

We discuss issues in CPR enterprise security architecture. The main goal is to provide a security environment where a user will be viewed the same across all enterprise systems, and access control decisions will be consistent across all components of the CPR enterprise.