Decoded: The Cybersecurity Podcast

Security Architecture Episode 7: Final - Review

The source material provides an overview of the Complete Security Architecture Framework, which is divided into six progressive phases often structured like a pyramid. These phases—Governance & Strategy, Identity & Access Management, Infrastructure Security, Application & Data Security, Incident Response & Recovery, and Monitoring & Continuous Improvement—build upon each other to create a defense-in-depth approach. The text explains the function of each phase and offers numerous examples of real-world software vendors and tools that organizations use to implement specific security controls, such as Palo Alto for firewalls or Okta for identity management. The source concludes by presenting a full-architecture example and a memory framework (GIIAIM) to help listeners recall the order of the six essential security components.