Enterprise Architecture
What is Enterprise Architecture?
A conceptual framework that defines the structure and operation of an organization's IT landscape in alignment with business strategy.
Terms that appear alongside enterprise architecture
Each of these is named in at least one of the same controls as enterprise architecture. The number is how many controls name both.
- nist 3 shared controls
- authorisation 3 shared controls
- privacy risk 2 shared controls
- information security 2 shared controls
- cybersecurity 2 shared controls
- risk assessment 2 shared controls
- information system 2 shared controls
- risk tolerance 2 shared controls
Frameworks that govern enterprise architecture
What the standards actually require on enterprise architecture
Requirements naming enterprise architecture across 6 standards, quoted from the control text.
The enterprise is given enterprise architecture services, including advice to implementation projects and oversight of them, ways of working made formal in architecture contracts, and the worth of the architecture measured and reported together with monitoring...
cobit-2019::APO03.05 · APO03.05 Provide enterprise architecture services →Offload [Assignment: organization-defined non-essential functions or services] to other systems, system components, or an external provider.
NIST800-PM-7(1) · PM-7(1) Enterprise Architecture | Offloading →The cyber risk management strategy is established and kept current in line with the cybersecurity program strategy (PROGRAM-1b) and the enterprise architecture.
australian-energy-sector-cyber-security-framework-aescsf::RISK-1b · RISK-1b: Risk strategy aligned with program strategy and enterprise architecture →The organisation develops and maintains an enterprise architecture that considers information security, privacy and the resulting risk to operations, assets, individuals, other organisations and Canada.
canada-itsp-10-033-security-and-privacy-controls-and-assurance-activities-catalogue::PM-07 · PM-07 Enterprise architecture →Institutions with highly complex systems or growing IT costs without matching benefit consider an enterprise architecture program under which IT requirements follow a defined process from business need to a solution conforming to approved policy, with security...
ffiec-it-examination-handbook::MGT-I.A.3 · I.A.3 Enterprise Architecture (Management) →Maintains the business, systems and information architecture that the organization builds to, and the rules that govern technology choice.
NICE-DD-WRL-002 · Enterprise Architecture →Questions people ask about enterprise architecture
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