Defensible 10 Standards

Defines how to design and engineer segmented, resilient network architectures that enforce least privilege, prevent lateral movement, and enable measurable control across hybrid infrastructures.

Guides practitioners in architecting cloud environments with integrated Zero Trust controls, automated security enforcement, and resilient multi-cloud design patterns.

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Establishes engineering principles for securing compute resources, platforms, and workloads through hardened configurations, runtime protection, and workload integrity validation.

Provides a structured framework for embedding security by design into software architecture, ensuring applications are built, tested, and deployed with defensible assurance.

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Outlines engineering controls for protecting data throughout its lifecycle, including classification, encryption, governance, and secure data handling across distributed systems.

Defines architectural and engineering methods to enforce Zero Trust identity, adaptive authentication, and privileged access management across enterprise systems.

Establishes a proactive engineering discipline for identifying, modeling, and mitigating threats through continuous vulnerability analysis, attack surface reduction, and validation.

Defines the architecture and operational design for real-time detection, telemetry integration, and automated incident response across hybrid and cloud-native environments.

Provides the engineering foundation for implementing secure cryptographic systems, key management lifecycles, and encryption standards that ensure data integrity and confidentiality.

Integrates security automation, validation, and compliance into CI/CD pipelines, ensuring software and infrastructure are engineered for security at every stage of development.

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