An honest technical and practical guide to establishing whether a piece of media was generated or manipulated by an artificial intelligence system. You will learn how visible and invisible watermarking work and where each one fails, how content provenance metadata records origin and edit history and why it is trivially strippable, how detection-based approaches analyse content directly and why they remain an unsettled area of research, why the adoption gap limits every technique's real-world value, and how to build a verification workflow that combines these signals with process controls proportional to risk, since no current technique solves this problem end to end.
Nothing. Every course, exam, and certificate on the catalog is free — including retakes. All you need is a free Safeguard account.
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.
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.
The Safeguard Certified Practitioner credential is valid for 24 months from issue. The expiry date is printed on the certificate and shown live on its public verification page. Renewing means passing the current exam again.
