Safeguard Academy
Free, hands-on security courses and verifiable certifications from the team behind Safeguard — the immune system for software.
Free courses · timed exams · certificates anyone can verify at a public URL
One path, four steps — from first lesson to a credential anyone can check.
Work through video and text lessons at your own pace. Progress is tracked per lesson.
Ask the AI tutor, raise doubts in the course community, and plan study tasks on your calendar.
A timed exam with questions drawn at random from a larger pool — answer keys never leave the server.
Every certificate gets a public verification page with live status — add it to LinkedIn or print the QR.
Video and hands-on lessons, self-paced.
Modern applications are mostly assembled from open-source code, and attackers know it. This course takes you from supply-chain fundamentals to working fluency with the Safeguard platform: connecting repositories, running scan engines, triaging findings with VEX, generating SBOMs, proving compliance, and using Gold, the CLI, and the MCP server. Complete all lessons and pass a timed 30-question exam to earn the Safeguard Certified Practitioner credential.
Leads to Safeguard Certified Practitioner
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Learn what a software supply chain is, why attacks against it are rising, and how SBOMs, the four supply-chain roles (Producer, Distributor, Reseller, Consumer), and Safeguard's ESSCM, Portal, TPRM, and OSM products fit together into one platform.
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Learn how Safeguard finds vulnerabilities, scores component risk with Risk Score and SCAL, prioritizes what actually matters with reachability analysis, and fixes issues autonomously with Griffin, enforced by policies, gates, and guardrails.
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Learn how to generate and read SBOMs for compliance, manage license risk, work with Safeguard's GRC and VEX capabilities, and shift security left by scanning and gating releases directly inside CI/CD pipelines.
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A working tour of Safeguard's flagship ESSCM product: what it scans, how Risk Score and SCAL turn raw findings into a prioritized worklist, and the connect-to-fix loop that takes a repo from unknown risk to a gated, remediated release.
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How Safeguard's Portal product turns an internal SBOM into an externally shareable, audit-grade artifact — Publish vs Share, the Product/Project vocabulary split, and the Trust Center's public posture page.
View course →The arc of the flagship course — from fundamentals to working fluency.
Pass a proctored-style timed exam and earn a publicly verifiable credential.
Validates working knowledge of software supply-chain security and the Safeguard platform: the scan engines and findings-triage workflow, SBOM and VEX, compliance and the Trust Center, and the Gold / CLI / MCP ecosystem. Earned by completing the Safeguard Certified Practitioner course and passing a timed exam of 30 questions drawn from a 60-question pool, 45 minutes, 70% to pass (21 of 30), with a 24-hour retake cooldown; multi-select questions are graded exact-match with no partial credit. Valid for 24 months from issue; certificates are anonymously verifiable at learn.safeguard.sh/cert/(id).
The parts around the lessons matter as much as the lessons.
Ask questions in context and get course-scoped answers. AI responses are always labeled as AI.
Community meetups and course sessions run every week — RSVP, join live, or catch the recording.
Raise doubts and start discussions with fellow learners. Tutors and peers answer; the asker accepts the best answer.
Live events
AMAs, security deep-dives, and course sessions — free and open. RSVP and get a reminder.
Everything about courses, exams, certificates, and verification.
Read the full FAQNothing. Every course, exam, and certificate on the catalog is free — including retakes. All you need is a free Safeguard account.
No. One free Safeguard account covers the Academy and the platform. You can take courses and earn certifications without ever being a paying customer.
Create a free account, enroll in a course, and earn a credential anyone can verify.
Public verification pages with live status, a QR code, and one-click add to LinkedIn.
Every course, exam, and certificate on the catalog is free. All it takes is a free Safeguard account.
The whole interface ships in English and Hindi, with content translation infrastructure behind it.
Lessons, community, and exams are built mobile-first — learn wherever you are.
Plan study blocks, track RSVPs and exam cooldowns, and export it all to the calendar you already use.
None. The flagship course, Safeguard Certified Practitioner, is a beginner-level course — basic familiarity with how software is built helps, but every exam question is answerable from the lessons themselves.
The Safeguard Certified Practitioner exam is 30 questions drawn at random from a larger pool, 45 minutes, 70% to pass. Question types are multiple choice, multi-select (exact-match, no partial credit), and true/false. Grading is automatic and your result is available as soon as you submit.
You can retake it after a 24-hour cooldown, as many times as you need. Retakes are free, and each attempt draws a fresh random set of questions.
Every certificate has a public page at academy.safeguard.sh/cert/<id> — open the link or scan the QR code on the printed certificate. The page shows the credential's live status (valid, expired, or revoked), so it can't go stale the way a PDF can. No account is needed to check it, and you can add the credential to LinkedIn in one click.
