FAQ Category: Security and Privacy

**Disaster Recovery**: The assessment and recovery procedures for responding to a man-made or natural event that significantly disrupts or eliminates business and technology operations, yet does not threaten the existence of the enterprise. This includes sabotage, theft or corruption of resources, successful large scale hacker/virus attacks, building damage, fire, flood, and electrical outages. Two time-related…
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Security and privacy controls should function to reduce or eliminate external and internal threats – doing so through a combination of perimeter defense and internal configuration control. Controls should also support rapid bounce-back capabilities (called resilience) when incidents occur – from minor to major in scope. When done correctly, controls can serve to detect and…
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An integrated set of security and privacy controls for the enterprise is created by including these considerations security in the planning, design, implementation, and operation of all EA components and artifacts. For information-centric enterprises, including IT security and data privacy as required design elements of EA components, and having leadership support at the strategic and…
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The role of security and privacy within an EA program is best described as a comprehensive set of controls that pervade all architectural domains and are a key part of an organization’s risk management strategy. One can think of this as a vertical thread that weaves through all levels of the architecture. The thread metaphor…
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There are four key elements of the Security and Privacy Program: information security, personnel, operations, and physical protection.

The aspects of physical protection that should be captured in the EA include controls for the facilities that support IT processing, control of access to buildings, equipment, networks, and telecommunications rooms, as well as fire protection, media storage, and disaster recovery systems.

In the area of personnel security, the Security and Privacy Program should promote user authentication, security awareness, and training

In the area of information security, the Security and Privacy Program should promote security and privacy-conscious designs, information content assurance, source authentication, and data access control.