Chapter 2: IS Governance and Risk Management - Security Frameworks

The thing that I found the most interesting in this section of chapter two is the difference between enterprise and system architectures. I had never really thought about the similarities and differences of the two before reading this section and I feel as if it is pretty important to understand. Enterprise architecture is generally centered around an organization's structure. On the other hand, system architecture has to do with software and computing. I had been using these two terms kind of synonymously. Although they are not exactly the same thing, one supports the other in a direct fashion. Basically, an application for a business cannot be designed without first knowing how the business works and what the company wants the system to do. This is how the two architectures are intertwined, but are not the same thing like I had originally thought.