What you'll learn:
- Understand the role of a cybersecurity solution architect and how architecture connects business, technology, security, and risk.
- Translate business needs into security requirements by identifying critical services, assets, dependencies, risks, and constraints.
- Analyze modern cyber threats, vulnerabilities, attack paths, and business impacts to develop credible security risk scenarios.
- Design secure network, identity, authentication, authorization, device trust, and Zero Trust architecture foundations.
- Protect endpoints, data, cryptographic assets, secrets, and cloud services using appropriate security architecture principles.
- Design secure applications and APIs using trust boundaries, threat modeling, authorization, data protection, and abuse-case analysis.
- Integrate security into software development, architecture reviews, testing, releases, dependencies, and software supply chains.
- Prioritize vulnerabilities and exposures based on asset criticality, reachability, privileges, attack paths, and business risk.
- Design logging, monitoring, incident response, recovery, governance, control ownership, and third-party security processes.
- Apply cybersecurity architecture principles to AI systems and a realistic enterprise case study to develop defensible recommendations.
Cybersecurity today is not about securing technologies in isolation. Modern business services depend on cloud platforms, identity systems, APIs, endpoints, data, suppliers, monitoring, and recovery capabilities that all need to work together securely.
Cybersecurity Solution Architecture 101: Secure Design Foundations teaches you how to approach cybersecurity from an architecture perspective and connect business needs, cyber risk, technical design, operations, governance, and recovery into practical security decisions.
You will learn how to identify critical services and assets, discover security requirements, recognize trust boundaries, analyze credible threats, compare design options, assign ownership, and determine what evidence is needed to prove that a security decision is working.
The course covers the core domains a modern cybersecurity solution architect needs to understand, including:
• Networking and secure connectivity
• Identity, authentication, authorization, and Zero Trust
• Endpoint, mobile, SaaS, and device security
• Data security, privacy, cryptography, PKI, keys, and secrets
• Cloud security and shared responsibility
• Secure applications and APIs
• Secure development and software supply chains
• Vulnerability and exposure management
• Logging, monitoring, and threat detection
• Incident response, recovery, and resilience
• Security governance, controls, and third-party risk
• Generative AI, agentic systems, and emerging technology security
Throughout the course, you will follow a realistic enterprise case study that connects these areas into one complete architecture problem. This helps you understand not only what individual security controls do, but how decisions in one area can affect the security of the entire service.
By the end of the course, you will have a structured method for evaluating cybersecurity architecture, communicating with technical and business stakeholders, comparing realistic options, and developing security recommendations that can be implemented, tested, operated, and defended.
This course is ideal for cybersecurity professionals, engineers, consultants, architects, and technical leaders who want to move beyond individual security technologies and understand how secure solutions are designed as complete systems.
Cybersecurity Solution Architecture 101 is the foundation of a three-course series, followed by applied architecture in Course 201 and enterprise-scale architecture leadership in Course 301.
