Open Reference Architecture for Security and Privacy

Book excerpt: Due to the continuously stream of security breaches two security architects in the Netherlands started a project to harvest good practices for better and faster creating architecture and privacy solution designs. This project resulted in a reference architecture that is aimed to help all security architects and designers worldwide. All kinds of topics that help creating a security or privacy solution architecture are outlined, such as: security and privacy principles, common attack vectors, threat models while in-depth guidelines are also given to evaluate the use of Open Source security and privacy application in various use cases.