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Security Architecture Design Lab

Apply industry-standard design methodologies to build robust, scalable security architectures that align with business and regulatory needs.

6 Weeks
Vinit Sinha

Instructor

Vinit Sinha

What you'll learn

Apply SABSA and TOGAF frameworks to structure security architecture
Design Zero Trust architectures for cloud and hybrid environments
Create threat models using STRIDE and PASTA methodologies
Document and communicate architecture decisions using standard notation
Align security design with business objectives and risk tolerance
Evaluate and select security controls appropriate to the architecture

Requirements

  • Solid understanding of network and cloud security concepts
  • Some experience working in or with IT/security teams
  • Familiarity with enterprise architecture concepts is advantageous

About this course

Security architecture is the discipline of designing systems that are secure by design, not just secure by compliance. This course walks you through proven methodologies — SABSA, TOGAF, and Zero Trust — and shows you how to apply them to real enterprise environments. You'll learn how to model threats, make security trade-offs, and communicate architectural decisions to both technical teams and business stakeholders.

Course curriculum

24 lessons
  • What security architecture is (and isn't)
  • Security-by-design vs security-by-compliance
  • Core architectural principles: least privilege, defence-in-depth, fail-safe defaults
  • Introduction to architecture frameworks

Your instructor

Vinit Sinha

Vinit Sinha

Director — Cybersecurity (APAC), Mastercard

4.9 instructor rating

Vinit Sinha leads cybersecurity for Mastercard's APAC region, where he designed and runs the Cyber Risk Quantification programme and directs region-wide cyber crisis simulation exercises. He is Immediate Past President of ISACA New Delhi and an EC-Council Advisory Board member, with prior leadership roles at Pine Labs (Head of InfoSec, Cyber & Data Privacy), Wipro (Practice Head — Cybersecurity), and EXL (AVP Corporate Audit) spanning payment security, GRC, DevSecOps and information security. He holds OSCP, CSX-P, CDPSE and CCNA Cyber Ops certifications, and is an IIM Calcutta alumnus.