Membership Dues, CPL & Team Certification
Joining ISAUnited provides members with a thriving professional community, access to an extensive technical library, opportunities for free training and educational resources, and significant discounts on certifications.
Flexible payments—Select at checkout
Pay over time is now available — choose Klarna, Afterpay, or PayPal (Pay in 4) at checkout for tuition, CPL, memberships, and other eligible purchases.
*Subject to approval; availability may vary by country. Auto-renewals/subscriptions may not qualify.



Membership Institute Dues

Professional Membership
$179.00
Every year
Experienced security designer or builder with skills to demonstrate a high level of professional competency.
Unlock Your Full Potential with Our Professional Membership.
Join Today and Elevate Your Career!
(Membership auto-renews annually, cancel at any time)

Certified Professional License (CPL)

Certified Professional
Cybersecurity Architect (CPCA)
$695.00
Payment Options available
Demonstrate cybersecurity architecture competency through a capstone portfolio review. Define trust boundaries, security zones, and identity and access decisions that protect critical systems and data. Use cybersecurity design models to explain and defend your architecture, such as trust boundary models, data flow models, and more. Show how security requirements are translated into architecture patterns, security controls, and clear responsibilities across teams and platforms. Use the Defensible 10 Standards and cybersecurity core principles to justify your design choices and document the conditions that must remain true for the architecture to stay defensible over time.
NOTE:
1) CPL Cyber Capstone only, no Academy admission.
2) No program courses included
3) No CPEs will be issued
4) Eligibility requires a technical background review.

Certified Professional
Cybersecurity Engineer (CPCE)
$695.00
Payment Options available
Demonstrate cybersecurity engineering competency through a capstone portfolio review. Define technical security requirements, document engineering tradeoffs, and show how security controls are designed to enforce those requirements. Use Defensible Engineering components and systems to specify secure configurations, hardening steps, deployment safeguards, and monitoring expectations. Submission includes acceptance criteria and a verification plan that explains what is checked, how it would be checked, and what success looks like.
NOTE:
1) CPL Cyber Capstone only, no Academy admission
2) No program courses included
3) No CPEs will be issued
4) Eligibility requires a technical background review.

Certified Professional
Red Team Engineer (CPRTE)
$695.00
Payment Options available
Demonstrate Red Team Engineering competency through a capstone portfolio review. Define lawful authority, approved scope, rules of engagement, White Cell coordination, threat-informed exercise objectives, and safety boundaries. Use Red Team Engineering doctrine, Intrusion Vault resources, threat vector mapping, and architecture exposure analysis to design and document a controlled adversarial exercise. This evaluation emphasizes scope discipline, professional judgment, evidence quality, and defensible reporting for organizational readiness and resilience.
NOTE:
1) CPL Cyber Capstone only, no Academy admission.
2) No program courses included
3) No CPEs will be issued
4) Eligibility requires a technical background review.

Certified
Security by Design Professional (CSbDP)
$695.00
Payment Options available
Demonstrate security by design competency through a capstone portfolio review. Define security requirements early, document design decisions and tradeoffs, and show how security controls are selected and specified to reduce risk. Use Defensible Engineering components and systems (ISAUnited’s catalog of proven security mechanisms) to design and harden the solution on paper. This evaluation emphasizes a security-first mindset, where security is treated as a primary design driver rather than an afterthought. Submission includes acceptance criteria and specifications that explain what is checked, how it would be checked, and what success looks like.
NOTE:
1) CPL Cyber Capstone only, no Academy admission.
2) No program courses included
3) No CPEs will be issued
4) Eligibility requires a technical background review.












