A bill of materials course for things that are not applications, written for the product security engineer, firmware lead and release engineer at a company that ships hardware. It starts where package manager output runs out: a build that produces an image with no manifest, binary blobs from silicon vendors, components with no registry entry, and a toolchain and C library that ship under your name. You will wire generation into the build, run an extraction pass with honest confidence grades, separate what a hardware parts list tells you from what it does not, version one document across a product line where a single image serves several stock keeping units, assemble supplier documents into a product level answer, deliver to a customer or an authority, and keep the whole thing true for a product supported over a decade. Obligations are described in substance rather than by citation. This is training material and not regulatory or legal advice.
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.
