A response and recovery course for the people living through a ransomware event, structured around the first hour, the first day, the first week and the first month. You will learn the roles, decision points and evidence to preserve under pressure, the honest business and legal calculus behind paying or not paying, what a decryptor does and does not restore, and how to contain, rebuild and verify a system before trusting it with production traffic again.
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.
