Technical due diligence from the target's side of the table, written for the founder or executive who will be in the room. It covers the seven areas a diligence team examines, what they open first and what the opening sequence tells them, the artefacts you can produce in a week and the six that take months so must be started now, the open source licence question that generates more findings than any other area and what makes it cheap or expensive, how to present a known problem so it reads as managed rather than discovered, why concealment is a different category of problem from any finding, the questions that are really about the team, the mechanisms through which a finding reaches the commercial terms, the integration questions an acquirer asks while assessing you, and how to hold readiness as a standing state rather than running it as a project.
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.
