What is SABSA?

SABSA is a proven methodology for developing business-driven, risk and opportunity focused Security Architectures at both enterprise and solutions level that traceably support business objectives.

It is besides widely used for Information Assurance Architectures, Take a chance Management Frameworks, and to align and seamlessly integrate security and adventure management into Information technology Architecture methods and frameworks.

The SABSA framework and methodology is used successfully around the globe to encounter a wide variety of Enterprise needs including Risk Management, Information Assurance, Governance, and Continuity Management. SABSA has evolved since 1995 to exist the 'approach of selection' for organisations in fifty countries and in sectors as diverse equally Banking, Homeless Management, Nuclear Power, Information Services, Communications Technology, Manufacturing and Government.

SABSA ensures that the needs of your Enterprise are met completely and that security services are designed, delivered and supported equally an integral function of your business concern and It direction infrastructure. Although copyright protected, SABSA is an open-use methodology, not a commercial product.

SABSA is comprised of a series of integrated frameworks, models, methods and processes, used independently or equally an holistic integrated enterprise solution, including:

  • Business organisation Requirements Engineering Framework (known equally Attributes Profiling)
  • Risk and Opportunity Management Framework
  • Policy Architecture Framework
  • Security Services-Oriented Compages Framework
  • Governance Framework
  • Security Domain Framework
  • Through-life Security Service Management & Performance Management Framework

The SABSA Institute develops and maintains the method and certifies and accredits the professional Architects who use it in approximately l countries effectually the world.

Why is SABSA so Successful?

The SABSA Constitute

SABSA is governed past The SABSA Institute. In the United Kingdom an "Institute" is non an ordinary company: information technology has a protected and highly-regulated condition that guarantees:

  • SABSA intellectual property can never exist sold
  • SABSA will always remain vendor-neutral
  • SABSA will exist complimentary-use in perpetuity
  • SABSA volition have ongoing development to meet the needs of business concern
  • SABSA's community can obtain truthful competency-based professional person certifications that provide trust and confidence to peers and employers of an architect's capabilities

Unique Selling Points

Feature Advantage
Business-driven Value-bodacious
Risk & Opportunity Counterbalanced Prioritised and proportional responses
Comprehensive Scalable telescopic
Modular Agility for ease of implementation & management
Open up Source Free utilize, open source, global standard
Auditable Demonstrates compliance to relevant government
Transparent Ii-way traceability

Each of the seven primary features and advantages can be interpreted and customised into key "elevator pitch" messages and unique selling points (USPs) for specific stakeholders or customers. The instance below was created for eight stakeholders at a global fiscal institution:

SABSA Key Features Advantages and Benefits Matrix

Competency-Based Professional person Certification

Existent 'professionals' (such every bit pilots and doctors) are not certified by their professional person bodies past knowledge-based multiple choice tests. They are required to actively demonstrate the application of their skills and accomplish career progression by 'doing' non 'knowing'.

Certification past the SABSA Institute is competency-based and delivers to stakeholders the assurance, trust and confidence that a professional has demonstrated the skill and ability to use the SABSA method in the real world.

How is SABSA Used?

SABSA is comprised of a series of integrated frameworks, models, methods and processes, used independently or every bit an holistic integrated enterprise solution. Information technology is widely applied in:

  • Enterprise Security Architecture
  • Individual Security Solutions
  • Enterprise and Solutions Architecture
  • Seamless security integration and alignment with other frameworks including TOGAF, ITIL, Zachman, DoDAF
  • Business-driven, traceable toolkits for modelling and deploying security standards and references such as ISO 27000 series, NIST and CObIT
  • Governance, Compliance & Inspect
  • Business organization Requirements Engineering
  • Risk & Opportunity Direction
  • Information Balls
  • Business Continuity
  • Policy Compages
  • Security Service Management
  • Security Operation Management, Measures & Metrics
  • Secure Systems Design & Development
  • Over-arching decision-making framework for fully integrated end-to-end solutions

Who Uses SABSA?

As SABSA is free-use and registrations non required, nosotros do not take a definitive listing of user organisations. Nonetheless, we do know the profiles of the thousands of professionals who accept qualified as SABSA Chartered Architects in nearly 50 countries, on every continent and from every imaginable business sector.

SABSA has evolved as a standard (formal and de facto) all over the world. Information technology has been deployed, customised and incorporated as a government architecture standard and framework in:

  • Whole-of-Government Services Architecture
  • Defense & Intelligence communities
  • Standards Bodies

SABSA certification is widely requested by employers globally and is a mandatory requirement for Security Architects and Enterprise Architects alike in numerous large-scale and national fiscal sector bodies.

SABSA is also widely referenced in other security and It certification programmes and throughout the third academic world.

Where is SABSA Used?

SABSA is used all over the world and the Institute has certified SABSA Chartered Architects in nearly 70 countries.

When is SABSA Used?

SABSA is a 'Through-Life' method and framework: information technology applies throughout the entire lifecycle from Business organisation Requirements Technology to management of the solutions delivered.

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