A course for the security leader whose plan has to be delivered by people who do not report to them. It starts from risk and constraint rather than a tool wish list, separates work that needs engineering from work security can do alone, and sizes an item end to end including the review, rollout, support, migration and steady state costs that security plans routinely omit. It covers sequencing against engineering's own roadmap and release calendar, the conversation pattern for asking another team for a quarter of their capacity, negotiating rather than mandating and the small set of cases where a mandate is correct, what to do when a quarter is consumed by an incident, how to say no to your own good idea, and how to keep the plan alive through handover, verification and retirement.
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.
