Enterprise Security Architecture

Sometime during the 1980s we crossed a line from a world in which the majority of computer users were users of multi-user systems to one in which the majority were users of single-user systems. We are now in the process of connecting all computers in the world into the most complex mechanism that humans have ever built. Although for many purposes we may be able to do this on an ad hoc basis, for purposes of security, audit, and control it is essential that we have a rigorous and timely design. We will not achieve effective, much less efficient, security without an enterprisewide design and a coherent management system.