15. Looking to the Future

This book describes a pragmatic framework for managing a comprehensive enterprise cybersecurity program. This architecture uses 11 functional areas to organize all aspects of an enterprise’s cybersecurity, including policy, programmatics, IT life cycle and assessment. While this framework may provide a successful cyberdefense today, attackers and defenders are not standing still. Cybersecurity challenges and technologies continue to evolve quickly. How will this book’s framework hold up over time? Only time will tell. This concluding chapter examines how the authors expect that this book’s enterprise cybersecurity architecture may evolve over time.