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

Running Scanners Locally: The Runner, the Command Line and Offline Work

IntermediateFree5 modules · 16 lessons

About this course

A practical course for platform and DevOps engineers on running Safeguard's scanning engines on your own machine and your own infrastructure. You will learn the local runner and command line interface, what stays on the machine, working without internet egress, caching and performance, and reconciling a local result with the platform's own scan when the two disagree.

What you'll learn

Why Run Locally

What 'Local' Means: The Runner and the 'Never Give Us Your Code' Model
The Command Line Interface: Install, Tiers and Package Coverage
Interactive, Headless and Agent Modes: Choosing How the Runner Behaves
Local Runner, Desktop App and Continuous Integration Job: Three Places, One Engine

What Stays on the Machine

The Data Flow of a Local Run, and the Answer to 'We Can't Grant Repo Access'
Choosing Fast, Deep or Proactive for a Local Run
Secrets and Credential Hygiene When Scanning on Your Own Machine

Working Without Internet Egress

What a Scan Normally Reaches Over the Network, and What Happens Offline
Zero AI Mode, and Scaling the Same Idea to a Fully Air-Gapped Estate
The Kubernetes Helm Operator for Self-Hosted Running at Scale

Caching, Performance and Repeatable Runs

What a Local Run Can Genuinely Cache
Scan Depth and the Cost of Local Iteration
Scripting a Repeatable Local Run and Keeping It in Parity with Continuous Integration

Reconciling Local and Platform Runs

Why a Local Run and a Platform Run Can Legitimately Disagree
A Trust Workflow: Local as Fast Feedback, the Platform as the System of Record
A Day in the Life: Local First, Platform to Confirm

01Why Run Locally4 lessons

What 'Local' Means: The Runner and the 'Never Give Us Your Code' Model
The Command Line Interface: Install, Tiers and Package Coverage
Interactive, Headless and Agent Modes: Choosing How the Runner Behaves

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.