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Contribute

r expertise helps strengthen the Defensible 10 ecosystem.  Contribute by developing requirements, reviewing submissions, providing technical feedback, and helping shape future Associate Standards backed by real-world evidence.

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Help Build the Next Layer of Defensible Standards

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Download Template

Get the associate-standard template and guidelines to begin your contribution.

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Submit for Review

Submit your work for community peer review and feedback.

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Develop Associate-Standard

Create your associate-standard following the established framework and schema.

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Publication

Upon approval, your associate standard becomes part of the official framework.

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NOTE: Optional - ISAU allows the author’s name to be presented as the original submitter for credit and transparency.

Become a Assiciate-Standard Author

ISAUnited invites qualified technical practitioners, architects, and engineers to participate in developing Defensible Associate Standards—the detailed, domain-specific extensions of each Parent Standard within the Defensible 10 Standards (D10S).
By contributing, you help advance cybersecurity architecture and engineering into a structured, defensible discipline practiced globally.

Registration and Vetting

To maintain the technical rigor and integrity of ISAUnited’s open standards process, all prospective Associate-Standard authors must register for official vetting before receiving contributor access.
Registration ensures:

  • Verification of professional background and relevant expertise in IT, cloud, software, or cybersecurity engineering.

  • Assignment to appropriate review tracks within the ISAUnited Standards Committee or Technical Fellow Society.

  • Access to the Defensible Standards Submission Schema (D-SSF), author templates, and supporting technical resources.

Upon successful vetting, registered contributors gain full access to authoring tools, reference materials, and peer-review collaboration channels.

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Click the Register button to apply.

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The Defensible 10 Standards (D10S) are published under a Creative Commons Attribution–NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0).


This license permits free use, adaptation, and internal implementation of the D10S by individual practitioners, educational institutions, and organizations for the purpose of research, training, architecture design, or internal security engineering.


Attribution to ISAUnited.org must be maintained in all uses, reproductions, or derivative works.

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This includes but is not limited to:

  • Integration into commercial or subscription-based platforms or software tools

  • Use in vendor-branded frameworks or automated compliance products

  • Redistribution of modified or adapted versions for resale or commercial benefit

 

Requests for commercial licensing or integration agreements should be directed to:  info@isaunited.org

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