Why is Enterprise Architecture important for Risk Management?

Enterprise Architecture delivers overview of the current state of IT,
establishes vision for a future state, and finally generates strategy to move from the current state to the desired state.

When analysing Enterprise Architecture you should answer following questions:

  • Are we doing the right things?
  • Are we doing them the right way?
  • Are we getting them done well?
  • Do we expected benefits?

Basically Enterprise Architecture delivers information on how an enterprise achieves its strategy.

Following key areas should be covered within Enterprise Architecture:

  • documentation,
  • notation,
  • process,
  • organization.

The most common EA frameworks are:

  • TOGAF,
  • Zachman Frameworks,
  • DODAF,
  • FEAF,
  • SABSA – Sherwood Applied Business Security Architecture.