An engineering course on the software security expectations inside the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), written for the engineer or engineering leader in regulated financial services who has been handed a compliance obligation and has to turn it into working practice. Covers secure development practice and the evidence it leaves, the review expectation for software you write yourself and where automated tooling stops, vulnerability management and the risk ranking that drives it, the payment page and the scripts running on it, change control and segregation where they touch the pipeline, recurring developer training, the shared responsibility conversation with providers, and assembling evidence continuously rather than in the final weeks. Every duty is described in substance rather than by clause number, because this is training material and the binding sources are the standard as published plus your own qualified assessor.
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.
