Gain practical experience of creating security solutions and designing secure, highly available, and dynamic infrastructure for your organization

Key Features

Architect complex security structures using standard practices and use casesIntegrate security with any architecture solutionImplement cybersecurity architecture in various enterprises

Book Description

Solutions in the IT domain have been undergoing massive changes. There was a time when bringing your own devices to work was like committing a crime. However, with an evolving IT industry comes emerging security approaches.

Hands-On Cybersecurity for Architects will help you to successfully design, integrate, and implement complex security structures in any solution whilst ensuring that the solution functions as expected. To start with, you will get to grips with the fundamentals of recent cybersecurity practices, followed by acquiring and understanding your organization's requirements. You will then move on to learning how to plan and design robust security architectures, along with practical approaches to performing various security assessments. Once you have grasped all this, you will learn to design and develop key requirements, such as firewalls, virtual private networks (VPNs), wide area networks (WANs), and digital certifications. In addition to this, you will discover how to integrate upcoming security changes on Bring your own device (BYOD), cloud platforms, and the Internet of Things (IoT), among others. Finally, you will explore how to design frequent updates and upgrades for your systems as per your enterprise's needs.

By the end of this book, you will be able to architect solutions with robust security components for your infrastructure.

What you will learn

Understand different security architecture layers and their integration with all solutionsStudy SWOT analysis and dig into your organization’s requirements to drive the strategyDesign and implement a secure email service approachMonitor the age and capacity of security tools and architectureExplore growth projections and architecture strategyIdentify trends, as well as what a security architect should take into consideration

Who this book is for

Hands-On Cybersecurity for Architects is for you if you are a security, network, or system administrator interested in taking on more complex responsibilities such as designing and implementing complex security structures. Basic understanding of network and computer security implementation will be helpful. This book is also ideal for non-security architects who want to understand how to integrate security into their solutions.

Neil Rerup is the President and Chief Security Architect of an architecture firm that provides architectural services (enterprise and solution) to enterprises across North America. He is an enterprise architect who came out of the world of cybersecurity. He has worked on a number of projects for enterprises around the world and has worked in various architecture domains, including security, networking, and applications. He was responsible for the security architecture for the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics, securing the critical infrastructure of numerous utilities, and is also responsible for large enterprise solutions for companies around the world. Milad Aslaner is a mission-focused security professional with more than 11 years of international experience in product engineering; product management; and business evangelism for cybersecurity, data privacy, and enterprise mobility. He has been an award-winning speaker and technical expert at global conferences, such as Microsoft Ignite, Microsoft Tech Summit, and Microsoft Build.

Milad Aslaner

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