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table 14.4 F uture Vision of iA 2

FVF Description IA Future

Drivers Influences and

motivations to action

The complexity of risk management
and the business expense of IA are
strong influences on the continual
refinement of IA as a discipline for
risk management.

Extension Looking forward from

the present

The current IA provides an IA
framework, an IA process, and many
supporting frameworks. These are
foundational to defining areas of
further research in IA quantification
and IA modeling.

Extrapolation Looking forward from

the past

The past of IA resides in enterprise
architecture and the need to
formalize IA in context of an
enterprise architecture. IA will
evolve as EA evolves in support of
business activity, aligning technology
with business drivers, and aligning
IA with business risk.

Pendulum What is old is new again Einstein looked at Hume's philosophy

of epistemology for opinions/insight
while formulating his relativity
theories. Many IA insights find root
in classical philosophy. Philosophies
that attempt to build a foundation
on principles with the application of
those principles left up to the IA
architect.

Patterns Discernable coherence

from an aggregation of
discrete actions

IA provides a lexicon and reference
as a way forward to define methods
for identifying threat patterns and
how to address those patterns in risk
management.