ETP-HSC Enterprise Transformation Projects

The Role of Enterprise Architecture in Implementing a Holistic Security Concept (ETP-HSC)

Abstract

This article presents the ETP-HSC and a corresponding enterprise transformation framework, where the focus is on the application of Enterprise Architecture (EA) to support Security (EA4S) and it is the central topic. The EA4S is a Polymathic-holistic approach, which adopts a clear EA as the main ETP constraint for the implementation of a secured Information and Communications System’s (ICS). EA and all other ICS related architecture disciplines, are inspired from the term Architecture that comes from civil engineering, and in this domain, secured building objects are achieved by implementing robust building and urbanistic architectures, like the famous case of Hausmann’s Architecture and Urbanistic plan for the (re)Architecture of Paris in France, in which its primary objective was to assert Paris’ security. Therefore, the author considers that EAS’ first step is to build an enterprise security concept. But for enterprises that have been archaically built and do not have the needed resources to implement a Haussmannian security concept, therefore an iterative ETP-HSC implementation process can transform the enterprise’s security. ETP-HSC’s feasibility and integrity can be supported by an integrated Applied Holistic Mathematical Model (AHMM) for EAS (AHMM4EAS), and the author’s various research works on the applications of holistic security concepts, ETPs, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Cloud Services (CS), and AHMM. The ETP-SRC is based on a multi-disciplinary proprietary-mixed research method.