An advanced course for platform and DevOps engineers on making the build platform and the artifact registry the most trustworthy components in the software supply chain. You will apply the SLSA build threat model to real CI systems, harden runners with ephemeral isolation and workload identity, make builds hermetic and reproducible, design a quarantine-to-promoted registry topology with signing and attestations, and enforce verification at promotion and Kubernetes admission using Safeguard Gates, SCAL and continuous registry scanning. It closes with drift detection and NIST SP 800-61 runbooks for build platform and registry compromise.
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.
