All:
Bill Munyan, Mitch Thomas (Tripwire), and I have been doing some work in the architecture-wg of the Open Cybersecurity Alliance. That group has elected to represent architectural concepts using the
C4 model. The C4 model starts at a contextual level relating various systems, which is decomposed into what they call a container view of specific systems. Then containers are decomposed into components.
The first several images are specific to SCAP - subsequent diagrams are other orientations of the overall OCA Reference architecture.
Nothing is yet considered final.
Kind regards,
Adam