Enterprise Security Architecture

Part 2

Strategy and Planning

This part of the book is entitled Strategy and Planning. It is about how you develop the contextual security architecture and the conceptual security architecture. First take a look at what exactly is meant by these words, starting with some dictionary definitions to help you understand the language being used.

strat+e-gy n. pl. -gies 1. the art or science of the planning and conduct of a war. 2. the practice or art of using stratagems, as in politics, business, etc. 3. a plan or stratagem. [C17: from French stratégie, from Greek strategia function of a general: see STRATAGEM]

strat-a+gem n. a plan or trick, esp. one to deceive an enemy. [C15: ultimately from Greek strat− egos a general, from stratos an army + agein ...