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Governance, Risk, Audit & Privacy · Advanced

SABSA

Sherwood Applied Business Security Architecture, a risk-driven enterprise security architecture framework.

Definition

SABSA uses a six-layer matrix (contextual, conceptual, logical, physical, component, and service management) crossed with six questions (what, why, how, who, where, when). It starts with business requirements expressed as attributes and traces them through to security services.

Example

Architects derive the 'available' business attribute into resilience controls through SABSA layers.

Exam tip

SABSA is business-driven security architecture modeled on the Zachman framework.

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