Awarded for completing The Assisted Software Development Lifecycle, End to End and passing its exam, demonstrating the ability to locate the constraint in an assisted lifecycle, write security acceptance criteria that discriminate between plausible and correct, identify the controls that belong at generation and in the local loop and those that cannot, supply review with the four inputs it needs and reserve it for the judgements no other stage can make, derive tests from criteria rather than from an implementation, choose a small set of deterministic gates and run an exception process that holds, verify that what was approved is what runs, use runtime evidence for reachability and control execution, drive incident learning to the earliest economical detection stage, create review capacity without headcount, assign accountability on the merge decision rather than on authorship, measure the joins between stages, and state the case for moving controls to the new bottleneck without overclaiming.
Certificates are designed to be checked, not just displayed.
The credential is valid for 12 months from issue. Its public page states the expiry date, and renewing means passing the current exam again — so the credential always reflects the current material.