An hour by hour runbook for the single day that gets a real security baseline genuinely running: connecting your highest priority source code, registries and AI model sources, turning on the scanners that match your actual risk priorities, writing a narrow, trustworthy policy gate, wiring notifications and ticketing, and running a real first triage pass sorted by reachability and exploitability rather than severity alone. The course is built around one honest boundary, stated plainly throughout: a day is enough to stand up detection and enforcement, and it is not enough to close a findings backlog or finish a security programme. It closes with the operating habits that keep a setup day from decaying and a clear map to the sibling compliance-automation runbook and the realistic longer timeline course.
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.
