Architect guides

Architect reference guides

Each guide explains the relevant diagram's elements, connectors, design decisions, alternatives, failure behavior and implementation questions. They are proposed design references; read the review status alongside them.

Architecture Canonical source Detailed guide
AI Security overview Overview Narrative, example and explanations are included in the overview.
Secure business AI Architecture Guide
Defend against AI Architecture Guide
Defend with AI Architecture Guide
AI Governance Architecture Guide
Applying Secure Business AI Application companion Detailed guide
Stage 0 CISO conversation CISO walkthrough Full six-stage application guide

Start with the overview, then follow the recurring supplier-payment example across the three security views and the governance companion. Governance supplies the decision and oversight structure that the security views support; it is not a fourth security view. The diagrams describe responsibilities and boundaries; selecting products, assigning named roles or setting deployment conditions requires additional design work.

Applying Secure Business AI is an optional application module outside the existing 44-slide presentation. It applies architecture 01 and governance 04 across six progressive stages without adding another architecture.

The CISO walkthrough is a meeting view for Stage 0 Envision and the handoff into Stage 1 Discover and guardrail. It does not replace the complete six-stage guide.