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

Portal Advanced: Customer Trust Programs, NDA-Gated Sharing and Audit Trails

AdvancedFree5 modules · 13 lessons · ~2 min

About this course

Design and operate a customer trust program on Safeguard Portal at enterprise scale. You will architect the external catalog, use Publish (immutable copy) and Share (as-is) as audit primitives, pair SBOMs with VEX, run NDA-gated and tracked distribution, verify against EO 14028 and NTIA minimum elements, and turn audit trails into SIEM detections and incident evidence. Assumes the intermediate Portal course.

What you'll learn

Designing the Trust Program

Distributor and Reseller: Two Outbound Motions in One Product
Naming Discipline, the Buyer and Audience Segmentation

Catalog Architecture at Scale

Project vs Product: Composing the External Catalog
Lifecycle, Versions, Tags and Diffing in the SBOM Repository
Manage Repository: Folders, Retention, Quotas and Syft/Trivy Imports

Publish, Share and Evidence Integrity

Publish Creates an Immutable Copy: The Audit Primitive
Share Distributes As-Is: Answering 'What Exactly Did You Keep'
Pairing SBOMs with VEX and CSAF Statements

Sharing Controls and Audit Trails

NDA Gates, Branded Portal, Tracked Links, Roles and Revocation
Audit Trails, SIEM Export and Link-Leak Response

Compliance Verification, Trust Center and Operating Model

EO 14028, FedRAMP Verification and NTIA Minimum Elements as a Pre-Publish Bar
Trust Center (Early Access) and the Public Posture Release Process
Operating Model: RACI, Intake SLAs, Automation and Program Metrics

01Designing the Trust Program2 lessons

Distributor and Reseller: Two Outbound Motions in One Product
Naming Discipline, the Buyer and Audience Segmentation

02Catalog Architecture at Scale3 lessons

Project vs Product: Composing the External Catalog

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.