OPEN ENTERPRISE SECURITY ARCHITECTURE (O-ESA)

Information Security professionals today have to be able to demonstrate their security strategies within clearly demonstrable frameworks, and show how these are driven by their organization''s business priorities, derived from sound risk management a
ssessments.

This Open Enterprise Security Architecture (O-ESA) Guide provides a valuable reference resource for practicing security architects and designers ? explaining the key security issues, terms, principles, components, and concepts un
derlying security-related decisions that security architects and designers have to make. In doing so it helps in explaining their security architectures and related decision-making processes to their enterprise architecture colleagues.

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escription avoids excessively technical presentation of the issues and concepts, so making it also an eminently digestible reference for business managers - enabling them to appreciate, validate, and balance the security architecture viewpoints along
with all the other viewpoints involved in creating a comprehensive enterprise IT architecture.