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Are you familiar with these issues: difficulties in meeting customer needs in time, a lack of innovative force, late project completion, inadequate functionality of applications, high operating costs – and last but not least, gut decisions due to insufficient information...?
… If this sparks memories for you, you should definitely keep reading.
The high complexity of the IT systems in the company is often (partly) responsible for the factors mentioned above. This is because the system tends to grow almost unnoticed from year to year. At some point, it reaches the threshold where the overall picture is lost and is virtually impossible to control. The creep in system complexity often goes unnoticed. The causes for this are:
This is a crucial issue. Many companies lack IT security architecture, or at least it can no longer withstand the demands of digitisation. But why is company-wide IT security architecture necessary at all?
These questions address the need for a planned or structured approach. Just imagine what cities and places would look like are like if everyone was allowed to build indiscriminately? It would inevitably lead to conflict and mayhem in construction. The way in which land is developed and used is regulated through development schemes. These then form the basis for the architects, who develop the corresponding building project and finally execute it with a variety of companies.
Applied to IT security architecture, the questions above become the following:
These are great advantages - wouldn't you agree? But experience shows us that what is taken for granted in house building is not true in the IT world. In many companies, IT is growing and changing faster than the regulatory authorities can keep up with them. The consequences are these:
In our opinion, it doesn't have to be this way!
Fortunately, alongside the divisive forces, there are also the ordering forces that form the basis of an appropriate IT security architecture. To put it bluntly, we believe that IT security architecture should also mean "creating order".
Within enterprise architecture, there are different sub-areas. Below you will find an overview of the most well-known representatives. These partial architectures affect the enterprise IT security architecture and vice versa.
We will be happy to show you in detail in another blog post how you can find an appropriate IT security architecture. What I mean is: in a house construction project, at the start the final water or electricity connections are not set in stone, and in just the same way, it is also indispensable to plan the IT security architecture from the rough draft to the detailed version. In our experience, this is the only way to get such a project "off the ground".
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Don't be afraid. We won't let you down. We already assist numerous companies and organisations in the planning and implementation of structured, coordinated activities to ensure cyber security in the enterprise architecture.
Put your trust in our architects. We will help you to build a needs-based enterprise IT security architecture that offers you an optimal basis for all your digitisation projects.
And before I forget: The correct answers are 1b, 2c, 3a, and 4b. Of course, these apply both to house construction and to your IT security architecture.