What happens if I fail the exam?

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.

How long is a certificate valid?

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.

Courses

Air-Gapped and Sovereign Deployment: Running Without Internet Egress

AdvancedFree5 modules · 15 lessons · ~2 min

About this course

The hardest deployment topology Safeguard offers, taught as an operating discipline rather than a network diagram. You will learn what breaks when there is no internet egress, how advisory feeds, artefacts, and AI models are mirrored and verified into the enclave, and how to prove freshness and chain of custody to a sovereign or defense auditor.

What you'll learn

The Hardest Topology

Why Air-Gapped Is the Hardest Deployment Topology to Run Well
What Breaks Without Internet Egress: A Systematic Inventory
The Four AI Modes and Where Air-Gapped Sits Among Them

Getting Intelligence Into the Enclave

Mirroring and Verifying Advisory Feeds Into the Enclave
Artefact and Image Import With Signature Verification
Chain of Custody: Treating Every Import as Evidence

Keeping the Enclave Current

Update Cadence and Drift: Measuring How Stale You Are
Local and On-Prem AI Models Inside the Boundary
Continuous Scanning When There Is No Live Feed

Identity, Policy and Proof

Identity and Access Without a Reachable External Provider
Guard Policies, Guard Proxy and Guard SDK Inside the Enclave
Evidence for Sovereign and Defense Estates

Operating and Defending the Decision

Proving Freshness of Intelligence to an Auditor: A Worked Walkthrough
A Worked Incident: A Zero-Day Breaks After Your Last Mirror Import
Certification Language, the Segment Playbook, and Moving In or Out of Air-Gapped

01The Hardest Topology3 lessons

Why Air-Gapped Is the Hardest Deployment Topology to Run Well
What Breaks Without Internet Egress: A Systematic Inventory
The Four AI Modes and Where Air-Gapped Sits Among Them

02Getting Intelligence Into the Enclave3 lessons

Common questions

How much does Safeguard Academy cost?

Nothing. Every course, exam, and certificate on the catalog is free — including retakes. All you need is a free Safeguard account.

What are the prerequisites?

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.