Security Architectures
Nicole Graf, University of Cooprative Education, Germany
Dominic Kneeshaw, Independent Consultant, Germany
Extraordinary and Catastrophic Events
All-Embracing Role of Security
Software for Desktop PCs and Notebooks
Firewalls, the First Line of Defense
Protection of Remote Access Services (RAS)
INTRODUCTION
Webster's New Encyclopedic Dictionary (1994) describes the word architecture as the “art or science of designing and building habitable structures.” In its broadest sense, this meaning can also be applied to security architectures. The individual steps in the development of security architectures in an IT environment can be identified as follows:
- define the system's purpose in the context of an organization's business process,
- design technical structures and specifications,
- develop functional systems,
- deploy a tested and approved system,
- periodically audit the system, and
- continually improve the system.
This approach provides ...
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