D01

Network Security Architecture & Engineering

About The Standard Domain

The Network Security Architecture and Engineering domain defines how networks are designed,segmented, protected, and operated to reduce risk and contain potential impact.

It governs secure connectivity, traffic control, network segmentation, boundary protection, and the foundational infrastructure required for visibiliy, reliability, and performance.

Secure Network Design

Segmentation & Isolation

Traffic Control & Filtering

Visibility & Monitoring

Resilence & Reliability

Why Adoption is Necessary

Architectural Clarity

Provides a shared blueprint for building secure, scalable, and maintainable network architectures.

Consistent Engineering Expectations

Aligns teams on proven patterns for segmentation, connectivity, and access control.

Measurable Verification

Defines testable outcomes and control mappings for continuous validation.

Stronger Evidence

Supports traceability and audit readiness with clear design intent and implementation evidence.

How The Standard Works

Requirements

Define the outcomes and capabilities network must achieve to be secure, resilent, and compliant.

Technical Specifications

Provide the architecture, controls, and design specifications to meet the requirements.

Verification and Validation

Define how to test, verify, and validate that network controls operate as intended.

Implementation Guidance

Offer practical guidance, patterns, and best practices, to implement the standard effectively.

Associate Standards Preview

Associate Standards Coming in Q3 2026

Detailed, implementation-level standards that support D01 will be published in Q3 2026 to help teams operationalize secure network architectures.

Built for Builders. Backed by Evidence.

D01 provides the architectural foundation for secure networks, designed, engineered, and proven to deliver what matters.