PROJECT CONVERGE

Uniting Decision Makers, Practitioners, and Vendors for Cybersecurity Excellence.

A 2025 ISAUnited Expert Series of technical handbooks grounded in the authority of
ISAUnited’s Defensible 10 Standards.

What Is Project Converge?

Project Converge is ISAUnited’s initiative to unify the cybersecurity ecosystem—decision makers, IT & Security practitioners, and vendors—through real technical guidance, not marketing fluff.

Powered by the ISAUnited Expert Series, each handbook is concise and aligned with our Defensible 10 Standards. Written and peer-reviewed by ISAUnited’s Technical Research Center experts, every volume helps cybersecurity professionals act with clarity, implement with confidence, and reduce risk with precision.

Sponsor with Purpose

Does your solution solve real problems in cybersecurity?

ISAUnited invites a limited number of mission-aligned sponsors to join Project Converge—not to advertise, but to lead.

This is a strategic opportunity to demonstrate your commitment to clarity, discipline, and defensible design while gaining trusted visibility across the cybersecurity community.

Why Project Converge?

Modern cybersecurity is fragmented. Vendor saturation, tool sprawl, and a lack of cohesive strategy have created confusion and inefficiency across the ecosystem.

Project Converge is ISAUnited’s initiative to bring clarity and alignment by uniting three essential roles:

Decision Makers seeking trustworthy protections that align with business risk.
IT & Security Practitioners demanding technical clarity, defensible guidance, and validated tools.
Vendors working to build meaningful, relevant solutions that solve real-world security challenges.

Through rigorous research and peer-reviewed handbooks, Project Converge creates a central point of alignment—where trust, precision, and relevance converge.

Position Your Brand

This is an opportunity to lead, not just support, a movement that brings the cybersecurity community together around what works, not just what sells.

Powered by the ISAUnited Expert Series

The ISAUnited Expert Series is the tactical engine behind Project Converge. Each handbook is a focused, actionable resource grounded in cybersecurity architecture and engineering practices.

Every volume:

Centers on one Defensible 10 Standard to maintain domain-specific depth.
Breaks down the domain into four key technology areas for precision and clarity.
Delivers vendor-neutral guidance free from marketing influence or bias.
Includes research-backed validation to help decision makers and practitioners implement effective, measurable solutions.

Secure Your Role

By sponsoring a volume, you’re not just supporting content—you’re helping deliver clarity, validate tools, and strengthen the cybersecurity decisions made across the industry.

The Books

ATTACK SURFACE DEFENSE

VOLUME 1 - 2025 Q2

A tactical and architectural guide that empowers decision makers and practitioners to identify, assess, and reduce external exposure across hybrid cloud and on-prem environments.

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THREAT DRIVEN API SECURITY ARCHITECTURE

VOLUME 2 - 2025 Q3

A structured engineering playbook for designing and securing APIs based on adversary tactics, threat models, and ISAUnited's Defensible 10 architectural standards.

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ADVANCED THREAT DETECTION & RESPONSE

VOLUME 3 - 2025 Q4

A practitioner-aligned reference that bridges detection logic, telemetry integration, and response design into a unified, defensible approach to counter modern adversaries.

Attack Surface Defense

ISAUnited Expert Series – Volume 1 (2025)
By Arthur Chavez – Institute of Security Architecture United

The First Book:

Book Description
(For Sponsors & Partners)

Attack Surface Defense is the inaugural volume of the ISAUnited Expert Series—a quarterly publication of concise, technical handbooks built on ISAUnited’s Defensible 10 Standards.

This flagship edition offers a clear, structured view from executives to engineers on reducing exposure, hardening external and internal surfaces, and defending the modern tech stack from evolving threats.

It supports Network Security and Cloud Security as its primary Defensible Standards, with additional guidance aligned to Vulnerability Management (specifically Configuration Management).

Through vendor-neutral segmentation and research-driven clarity, this handbook unites Decision Makers, IT & Security Practitioners, and Vendors around a shared understanding of the attack surface challenge and how to address it effectively.

What Sponsors Are Supporting:

By sponsoring this volume, your organization:

Demonstrates technical leadership in advancing enterprise security architecture.
Empowers practitioners and decision makers with validated guidance that shapes how they evaluate and implement security solutions.
Aligns with one of four defined technology segments, placing your brand where it matters most—alongside the concepts, challenges, and tools your customers care about.
Contributes to vendor-neutral industry education, helping eliminate noise and build clarity for the cybersecurity community.

Strategic Sponsorship

Sponsorship is not just brand placement—it’s a commitment to clarity, collaboration, and defensible design. It’s your opportunity to help shape the future of cybersecurity through engineering-first, practitioner-ready content.

The Four Technology Segments

Each of the following segments forms a quadrant of Attack Surface Defense and is aligned to Defensible Standards, showcasing how customers should evaluate, how practitioners implement, and how vendors support these controls:

Segment 1: External Attack Surface Management (EASM)

Defensible Standard Alignment: Network Security
Focus: Discovery, inventory, and monitoring of public-facing digital assets
Customer Need: Visibility into exposed domains, IPs, and assets
Practitioner Challenge: Continuous mapping, anomaly detection, third-party exposure
Vendor Opportunity: Show how your solution empowers organizations to reduce unknown and unmanaged risks

Segment 2: Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM)

Defensible Standard Alignment: Cloud Security
Focus: Misconfiguration detection, visibility across cloud workloads and services
Customer Need: Confidently operate in AWS, Azure, and multi-cloud environments
Practitioner Challenge: Align security policies with cloud-native architecture
Vendor Opportunity: Demonstrate how your CSPM solution supports secure cloud operations through automation and intelligence

Segment 3: API & Web Attack Surface Protection

Defensible Standard Alignment: Network Security + Application Security
Focus: API exposure analysis, input validation, behavioral anomaly detection
Customer Need: Secure critical business APIs from unauthorized access and data theft
Practitioner Challenge: Implement authentication, throttling, and request integrity
Vendor Opportunity: Provide API security insight, protection platforms, or gateway enhancement strategies

Segment 4: Configuration & Exposure Hardening

Defensible Standard Alignment: Vulnerability Management (Configuration Management)
Focus: Secure baseline configurations, port/service exposure reduction
Customer Need: Prevent misconfigurations that lead to lateral movement
Practitioner Challenge: Maintain hardened, version-controlled infrastructure
Vendor Opportunity: Align your solution to hardening, scanning, and misconfiguration remediation workflows

Sponsorship Value & Benefits

Benefit

Strategic Value to Sponsors

Targeted Audience Reach

Gain direct exposure to ISAUnited’s trusted network of enterprise architects, security engineers, and cybersecurity decision makers across industries.

Strategic Brand Alignment

Be positioned within a dedicated, domain-relevant technology quadrant—aligned to your product’s specific security value and engineering purpose.

Industry Credibility

Be featured in a peer-reviewed publication backed by the ISAUnited Technical Research Center—recognized for integrity, expertise, and thought leadership.

Multi-Channel Distribution

Amplify your brand through ISAUnited’s website, expert newsletter, LinkedIn campaigns, and partner channels—reaching both technical and executive audiences.

Evergreen Visibility

Your sponsorship lives beyond the launch—each handbook remains available digitally and in print as a long-term educational and reference asset in the cybersecurity community.

Become a Sponsor

Show your commitment to the industry by sponsoring a volume of the ISAUnited Expert Series. Sponsorship helps keep the guidance vendor-neutral while giving your organization visibility as a leader in cybersecurity excellence.

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