ISAUnited Cyber Academy
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Courses
ENG600
Course: Introduction to Defensible Engineering
Field: Cybersecurity Engineering
An introduction to defensible cybersecurity engineering, organized around ten core security domains used to assign responsibility in enterprise and cloud environments. Covers what each domain includes, how controls connect to requirements and measurable acceptance criteria, and how to read a system diagram to identify boundaries, interfaces, and what must be protected.
ENG601
Course: Cybersecurity Engineering Concepts (CEC) Practicum
Field: Cybersecurity Engineering
This course introduces practical methods for engineering secure systems by using structured, real-world design and implementation techniques. Learners will explore the full lifecycle of system protection through modeling, validation, and technical execution, with emphasis on engineering traceability, repeatability, and accountability in modern system environments.
ENG650
Course: Defensible Engineering Framework
Field: Cybersecurity Engineering
A practical framework for building and integrating secure systems using defensible engineering methods. Learn to translate domain expectations into technical specifications, place protections at boundaries and interfaces, document engineering trade-offs, and verify results with repeatable tests and operational signals. Emphasis is on implementation discipline, traceable decisions, and measurable outcomes.
ENG651
Course: Defensible Engineering Mechanisms
Field: Cybersecurity Engineering
Explore how defensive mechanisms are identified, designed, and verified within secure enterprise and cloud systems. It explains how mechanisms such as gateways, firewalls, identity services, scanners, WAF, and monitoring components enforce protection across architectures. Learners study how these mechanisms are placed, tested, and sustained to ensure defensible, measurable security outcomes.
ENG652
Course: Defensible Distributed Systems
Field: Cybersecurity Engineering
Builds practical skill in designing secure distributed systems at scale across data centers and cloud services. Learn to map trust boundaries, service-to-service flows, identity, and data protection into clear mechanism choices, with measurable tests and acceptance criteria. Practice reading system diagrams and spotting failure paths that break security now.
ENG654
Course: Proof Engineering, Verification & Validation, Evidence Packs
Field: Cybersecurity Engineering
Proves security design and control intent with repeatable testing, clear acceptance criteria, and documented results. Covers verification and validation planning, test case design, negative testing, evidence collection, and traceability from requirements to outcomes. Builds audit-ready evidence packs that remain current through change, with peer-reviewed scoring.
ARC500
Course: Introduction to Defensible Architecture
Field: Cybersecurity Architecture
Introduces defensible cybersecurity architecture and explains how ten security domains organize responsibilities across enterprise and cloud environments. Clarifies the purpose of each domain, how controls connect to requirements and measurable acceptance criteria, and how to read a system diagram as an architectural security map that supports consistent design reviews and accountable outcomes.
ARC504
Course: Security Design Operations
Field: Cybersecurity Architecture
Security design operations define how security architecture is executed within technical design authorities and centers of excellence across enterprise and cloud environments. It shows how to interpret system diagrams, clarify security responsibilities across key domains, and translate design decisions into control expectations, requirements, and measurable acceptance criteria.
ARC550
Course: Defensible Architecture Design Framework
Field: Cybersecurity Architecture
This course introduces students to the Defensible 10 Standards and explains how the ten domains organize security responsibilities across enterprise and cloud environments. Students learn the purpose of each domain, the relationships among controls, requirements, and measurable acceptance criteria, and how to interpret a system diagram through the D10S lens.
ARC551
Course Title: Technical Adversarial & Defensible Analysis (Advanced)
Field: Cybersecurity Architecture
This advanced course teaches how to review a solution architecture diagram from an attacker’s perspective and translate findings into a defensible security design. Students learn to map attack stages and entry points, threat-model components and data flows, align attacker behaviors to real techniques, and produce clear remediation recommendations.
ARC552
Course Title: Cybersecurity Design Models (CDM) Practicum
Field: Cybersecurity Architecture
This practicum develops practical modeling skills for designing secure system architectures using structured, repeatable techniques. Learners will apply real-world design principles to model system components, assess exposure, and document defensible architecture patterns, with a focus on modularity, precision, and traceability in design workflows.
ARC554
Course Title: Cloud Security Architecture Design
Field: Cybersecurity Architecture
This course examines how secure cloud systems are architected through structured design practices. It covers foundational engineering concepts, including landing zone architecture, hub-and-spoke segmentation, tenant isolation, encryption and key management, and secure workload deployment. Learners gain practical insight into aligning design principles, trust boundaries, and security controls across multi-cloud and hybrid environments.
Why Knights?
A Knight is bound by oath, trained for discipline, and trusted to protect. That’s our ethos: shield-first design, evidence you can prove, and integrity in every decision.
Knight virtues → your practice
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Honor → Hold the Standard: Commit to D10S and a code of conduct in every design.
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Intelligence → Think Like an Engineer: Model with CDMs, decide with CECs (use CIE when component trust matters).
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Credibility → Show Your Work: Keep traceable DRM logs, CDM/CEC declarations, Cyber Science metrics, and TMC calculations.
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Faith to the Cause → Protect the Mission: Defend people, data, and business outcomes with clarity and restraint.
The Knight’s toolkit
Shield: Architecture-first defense mapped to D10S ·
Visor: Telemetry & review checklists ·
Oath: Professional standards & ethics ·
Formation: Teams that move as one—design, build, verify.
