Find Your Cybersecurity Career Pathway

Turn ISAU learning into career outcomes.

Knights for Life

Once a Knight, Always a Knight.

Graduating from your course is not the end—it’s the beginning of your journey as part of the ISAU community. Your membership continues to support you with resources, mentorship, and a professional network that stays with you throughout your career.

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Why Pathways Matter

ISAUnited’s Pathways page is where you connect your learning to your career trajectory. The Basics and Core courses build your knowledge, but here you’ll see what that means for your future—from CPE recognition to the Certified Professional License (CPL), and from technical contributor to strategic leader.

Career Path Options

Security-by-Design (SbD)

Career Focus: Secure development lead, DevSecOps engineer, or program manager who institutionalizes SbD across teams.
Future Growth: Move into governance roles, SbD program management, or CPL stamp CSbDP.
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Cybersecurity Engineering (Engineer)

Career Focus: Network, system, and cloud engineers who evolve into defensive engineers.
Future Growth: Progress into senior engineering leadership, system design authority, or CPL stamp CPCE.
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Cybersecurity Architecture (Architect)

Career Focus: Solution/enterprise architects who shape defensible architectures.
Future Growth: Advance into principal architect, enterprise security strategist, or CPL stamp CPCA.
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Pathway Outcomes

1. CPE - Only

Earn continuing education credits, demonstrate professional development, and apply skills immediately in your role.

2. CPE + CPL - Track

Pursue ISAUnited’s evidence-based professional license. Instead of exams, you’ll submit portfolios (CDMs, CECs, DRM logs, V&V results) for peer review by the Technical Fellow Society. CPL holders receive:
Stamp & ID: Digital professional license ID
Recognition: Industry distinction akin to Professional Engineer (PE)
Validation: Proof of defensible design and engineering competence

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Technical Fellow Society Our Society is a prestigious body of seasoned experts whose leadership and counsel guide the advancement, integrity, and operations of our cybersecurity architecture and engineering mission.

ISAUnited Credentials & Certifications

Certified Professional Licenses (CPL)

Team Training & CAE Certification

Security by Design Accreditation

The School of Engineering Cyber Defense

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Courses

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Join Knights Nation Online school for cyber architecture & engineering—build a portfolio and follow a clear path to CPL.

ISAUnited's Defensible 10 Standards

Security Standards

Security Controls

Security Design

Visit Defensible10.org Explore the open standards library, download the 2025 Draft Edition, and join the Open Season to contribute Sub-Standards that advance true cybersecurity engineering.

Launching Fall 2025. ISAUnited’s Defensible 10 Standards offer a vendor-neutral, engineering-grade blueprint across ten core security domains for provable security by design beyond compliance.

ISAUnited's Core Divisions & Programs

Cybersecurity Architecture

Cybersecurity Engineering

Security by Design

Cyber Sciences

Coming 2026 — Cybercrime Division. A new ISAUnited department that fuses cyber-criminal intelligence, digital forensics, and U.S. cyber-law insight to sharpen every architecture and engineering decision.

Our Practices in Cybersecurity Architecture & Engineering

Overview

Fundamentals

NEW Mastering Security by Design Our new book, Mastering Security by Design, is your definitive guide to transforming security from cost to competitive edge—empowering you to build resilient, defensible systems from the ground up.

Enterprise Security Architecture Design Master the principles, frameworks, and technical rigor needed to design enterprise security architectures that are defensible, scalable, and ready for tomorrow’s threats.

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Enterprise Security Architecture Body of Knowledge. The ESABOK from ISAUnited empowers architects and engineers to navigate architecture conformity and standardized processes for secure design confidently.

Technical Standards in Action

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Find Your Cybersecurity Career Pathway

Turn ISAU learning into career outcomes.

Knights for Life

Once a Knight, Always a Knight.

Why Pathways Matter

Career Path Options

Pathway Outcomes

What Can I Do with This?

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Members

Technical Fellow Society

Our Society is a prestigious body of seasoned experts whose leadership and counsel guide the advancement, integrity, and operations of our cybersecurity architecture and engineering mission.

Security by Design
Accreditation

Join Knights Nation

Online school for cyber architecture & engineering—build a portfolio and follow a clear path to CPL.

Visit Defensible10.org

Explore the open standards library, download the 2025 Draft Edition, and join the Open Season to contribute Sub-Standards that advance true cybersecurity engineering.

Launching Fall 2025.

ISAUnited’s Defensible 10 Standards offer a vendor-neutral, engineering-grade blueprint across ten core security domains for provable security by design beyond compliance.

Coming 2026 — Cybercrime Division.

A new ISAUnited department that fuses cyber-criminal intelligence, digital forensics, and U.S. cyber-law insight to sharpen every architecture and engineering decision.

NEW Mastering Security by Design

Our new book, Mastering Security by Design, is your definitive guide to transforming security from cost to competitive edge—empowering you to build resilient, defensible systems from the ground up.

Enterprise Security Architecture Design

Master the principles, frameworks, and technical rigor needed to design enterprise security architectures that are defensible, scalable, and ready for tomorrow’s threats.

Enterprise Security Architecture
Body of Knowledge.

The ESABOK from ISAUnited empowers architects and engineers to navigate architecture conformity and standardized processes for secure design confidently.