Welcome to AiSP Members

Why become a Security Architect?

Security has never been about the pure deployment of technology solutions. It has always been about business enablement – allowing the business to maximise opportunities whilst ensuring risk is managed at all times to acceptable levels.

The InformationSecurity Architect is a senior-level role responsible for the effective planning, designing, testing, implementing and maintaining of an organisation’s security infrastructure. This requires knowledge and understanding of the organisation – its assets, motivation, processes, governance, technology and anything that is time-sensitive.

To become a security architect is to position yourself strategically because the security architect provides the critical link between two domains – that of senior management and that of the technical subject matter expert.

An industry-wide cyber security skills gap means there is strong demand for security architects and that companies are paying high salaries to those who are qualified to thrive in this essential role.

Why SABSA?

SABSA® is the world’s leading, open-source, security architecture framework and methodology. SABSA® uses a top-down approach as part of a continuous improvement lifecycle, with its key stages of strategy and planning, design, implement, and manage and measure, fully aligned to the Deming lifecycle of Plan-Do-Check-Act.

SABSA® is business-driven. This is the key to its power and its global acceptance. SABSA is all about empowering the organisation to do business as it needs and wants to do, while ensuring that it is secured and fully enabled in accordance with its business priorities. SABSA® is adaptable and extensible and readily integrates with other frameworks and standards such as NIST Cybersecurity Framework, ISO/IEC 27000 series, COBIT, TOGAF, Zachmann, and PCI DSS. It can be used as a compliance and governance framework for complex sets of standards that need to be deployed simultaneously.

Who uses SABSA?

SABSA® is a powerful component of organisational resilience used extensively in over 90 countries in critical infrastructure sectors including government, financial institutions, defence, manufacturing, telecommunications, healthcare, energy and utilities.

The SABSA® Certification Roadmap

SABSA® has a comprehensive certification program at three levels:

• SABSA Chartered Foundation (SCF) – 5 day course, no pre-requsities to attend.
• SABSA Chartered Practitioner (SCP) – must complete ONE Advanced course, Foundation is a pre-requisite.
• SABSA Charted Master (SCM) – The completion of TWO Advanced courses plus a Master’s Thesis of 10,000 – 25,000 words.

More than 9,000 people have attained SABSA certification since its inauguration in 2007.