Cybersecurity Value Stream Catalog: AI-Ready Edition

Cybersecurity Value Stream Catalog: AI-Ready Edition catalogs the end-to-end work of cybersecurity for architects and transformation leads in financial services firms: 12 value streams in 60 stages, each running from a trigger to a result. Every stage is set out twice, as it runs today and as it could run AI-native, with the target AI mode, the agents involved and the checkpoint where a person decides. The catalog is taken from Cybersecurity Business Architecture Package: AI Transformation Blueprint and sold on its own.

The Catalog

Each entry names the stream, its number of stages and the outcome it delivers.

• Business Direction to Funded Security Program (5 stages). Outcome: A security program funded against the threats and business services that matter most, run as one portfolio, and reported to leadership and the board in measures they can follow.
• Security Risk Identified to Risk Decision (5 stages). Outcome: Every material security risk rated in business terms, decided by the accountable owner at the right authority level, recorded with its treatment and watched until it closes.
• Joiner to Leaver Access (5 stages). Outcome: People who have the access their role needs on their first day, extra access only on the accountable owner's approval, access that follows each change of role, and nothing left behind when they leave.
• Privileged Access Request to Closed Session (5 stages). Outcome: Privileged work done through time-bound elevation, with standing privilege kept only where its reason is approved, each elevation approved by the accountable owner, and a full record of what was done.
• Review Cycle to Certified Access (5 stages). Outcome: Access that its accountable owners have confirmed is still needed, unneeded access removed, nonhuman identities owned and right-sized, and the evidence kept.
• Threat Report to Defensive Action (5 stages). Outcome: Defenses that change with what attackers are doing: detections built, weaknesses reprioritized and hunts run for the threats relevant to the organization.
• Vulnerability Found to Fix Verified (5 stages). Outcome: Weaknesses fixed in the order of how likely and harmful their exploitation is here, with due dates owners agreed to, interim protection where a fix must wait, and every fix verified.
• Security Signal to Resolved Alert (5 stages). Outcome: Attacks found early, every alert triaged with its context, routine steps run the same way every time, and analysts' time spent on what matters.
• Incident Declared to Trusted Recovery (5 stages). Outcome: Less harm from each incident, systems and data restored to a trusted state in the planned order, the right people informed, disclosures decided on the facts, and lessons acted on.
• Software Design to Secure Release (5 stages). Outcome: Software designed against approved patterns, built from approved components, tested for the weaknesses that matter, released through security checkpoints, and supported when outsiders report a weakness.
• Third-Party Request to Assured Supplier (5 stages). Outcome: Outside services used without unseen or unaccepted security risk: each third party reviewed in proportion to the data and access involved, approved by the named approver, watched while engaged and exited cleanly.
• Sensitive Data Found to Protected Data (5 stages). Outcome: Sensitive data protected as its classification requires, wherever it is kept and however it moves, and destroyed securely at the end of its retention.

In the Download

Three files carry the same catalog: a deck for presenting, a workbook for analysis and a guide for reading.

• Stream and stage detail: steps, stakeholders, entry and exit criteria, and the capabilities that enable each stage
• At each stage: current pain points, the AI-native design, agents, target AI mode, human checkpoint and KPIs
• A further 14 standard cybersecurity value streams, steps included, kept as a reference set of common processes
• Value Streams deck (PowerPoint), with each stream as a flow and then one stage at a time
• Workbook (Excel), with the streams and stages in sheets to filter and extend
• Guide (Word), covering the AI mode, human oversight, risk tier and work pattern scales, each stream in prose, and the license
• Corrections free of charge, and new versions free for 180 days after purchase

Your organization's name and license ID are printed in every file.

Who It Is For

Process owners redesigning cybersecurity work, transformation leads planning from a future-state view, and architects linking value streams to capabilities.

With the Other Editions

The Cybersecurity Capability Matrix: AI-Ready Edition defines the capabilities each stage names, and Cybersecurity Business Architecture Package: AI Transformation Blueprint specifies the agents and adds the data model, use cases, controls, operating model and roadmap. The Cybersecurity Business Information Model is sold on its own as well.

Target AI modes reflect a typical large enterprise; treat them as a first draft of your own.