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SABSA strategy and planning

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SABSA strategy and planning

- [Instructor] One of the most popular enterprise security architecture frameworks is SABSA, the Sherwood Applied Business Security Architecture. SABSA is used to capture business requirements, and then determine what security is needed to meet those requirement. SABSA is based on the wider enterprise architecture framework developed by John Zachman. We won't spend time reviewing The Zachman Framework but it's useful to know there's an underlying and solid foundation upon which the SABSA framework has been built. The basic construct in SABSA is its architecture matrix. The top two layers form the elements of the architecture necessary in the strategy and planning stage. This matrix is used to capture all relevant security concepts and activities for the enterprise and to make sure that we as the security architects consider six questions as the architecture is being developed: What, why, how, where, who and when.…

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