Want to work with Defence? Membership of the Defence Industry Security Program is the gate. We give defence-adjacent businesses an honest, structured path to DISP membership across governance, personnel, physical and cyber security.
DISP / Essential Eight ML2 / ISM-aligned
DISP membership is required when a Defence contract obliges it, or when your business stores, handles or transmits Defence classified information. It is not required simply because you sell to Defence. The obligation comes from the contract and the information you hold — not from the sector you operate in.
Are you delivering or tendering for Defence work?
Will you hold Defence information or assets?
Has Defence or a prime contractor asked about DISP?
Yes — you will need DISP membership.
Holding Defence classified information requires membership. Which level, and which categories, depends on the classification and what you do with it.
Securitribe is working toward DISP membership. We prepare you for yours — we don't sponsor it.
Yes — it is contractually required.
If Defence or a prime has named DISP in the requirement, membership is the gate. Start early: sponsorship and vetting routinely take longer than the tender does.
Not yet — and possibly never.
Without Defence work and without anyone asking, DISP is not your obligation. Other things almost certainly are — the Privacy Act binds nearly every Australian business, and your customer contracts may bind you further.
The answer turns on something you can check today.
Whether you hold Defence information — and at what classification — is the question that decides this. It is answerable from the contract and the data you actually hold, usually in an afternoon.
Probably — but the contract decides, not the sector.
Defence-adjacent work often carries DISP obligations through the prime's flow-down clauses rather than a direct Defence contract. That is exactly the kind of obligation businesses miss, because nobody reads the annexure.
The Defence Industry Security Program (DISP) lets businesses work with Defence and access sensitive or classified information. Membership requires demonstrated security across four domains — governance, personnel, physical and ICT/cyber — and the requirements are real. We won’t pretend approval is fast; we’ll give you a credible path and the evidence to support it.
Assess your current state against the membership requirements across all four security domains.
Security officer roles, policies, personnel security and the governance DISP expects.
Lift your ICT security and Essential Eight maturity to the required level.
Prepare the security documentation and evidence the application requires.
Guidance through the application and assessment process.
Book a call and we’ll assess your readiness and map the steps to membership — without the false promises.
