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

Securing AI Models: Artificial Intelligence Security Posture Management (AI-SPM) and Hugging Face Scanning in Practice

IntermediateFree4 modules · 13 lessons

About this course

Machine-learning models are downloaded, loaded and executed like software, but most teams never scan them. This course teaches how model artifacts (pickle, PyTorch, safetensors, GGUF, ONNX) can carry risk, how to connect Hugging Face and supply models directly to Safeguard's AI-SPM scanner, how to build an AI-BOM, and how to put policies, gates and safe-loading practices around every model your organisation consumes.

What you'll learn

Foundations: Model Artifacts as a Supply Chain

The AI Model Supply Chain: Hubs, Fine-Tunes and Where Trust Breaks
Model Artifact Formats and Their Risk: Pickle, PyTorch, safetensors, GGUF, ONNX
Beyond Code Execution: Impersonation, trust_remote_code, Backdoors and Licenses

Scanning Models with Safeguard

Connecting Hugging Face and Supplying Models Directly
Reading AI-SPM and Eagle Findings for a Model Version
AI-BOM Discovery: Inventorying Models Across Code, Cloud, SaaS and Vector Stores
Scanning Skills and Agents and Establishing Agent Identity

Hardening Model Consumption

Safe Loading: safetensors-First, Restricted Unpicklers, Revision Pinning and Isolation
An Approved Model Registry: Quarantine, Conversion, Signing and Lineage
CI/CD and MLOps Integration: Intake and Deployment Gates with the CLI

Governance, Compliance and Operations

Policies and Gates for Models, and What Zero AI Mode Changes
Compliance Evidence: EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF and ISO 42001 in the GRC Suite
Running an AI Model Security Program: Ownership, Metrics, Runbook and an Incident

01Foundations: Model Artifacts as a Supply Chain3 lessons

The AI Model Supply Chain: Hubs, Fine-Tunes and Where Trust Breaks
Model Artifact Formats and Their Risk: Pickle, PyTorch, safetensors, GGUF, ONNX
Beyond Code Execution: Impersonation, trust_remote_code, Backdoors and Licenses

02Scanning Models with Safeguard4 lessons

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.