From the course: Introduction to IT Architecture

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IT security management

IT security management

- Imagine shaping your IT infrastructure into a dynamic fortress that evolves to counter new threats where you've designed each element to protect your information assets, stakeholders, and reputation. Let's look at how you can influence your organization's IT infrastructure to be the strong backbone of its IT security posture. First, let's define IT security management. It's the subset of IT risk management that protects your organization's infrastructure, data, and operations from internal and external security threats. As an IT architect, you support IT security management through design and participation in the practice's activities. Let's look at design first. In design, you embed mitigations that reduce security risks and contingencies to handle threats when they arise. You include telemetry to gather security observability data and monitoring and remediation capabilities align with security standards, enabling quick issue detection and resolution. You follow a defense-in-depth…

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