Resources · Training & Certification

Safeguard Academy. Train your team. Certify your engineers.

Structured training programmes for the people who actually use the platform — developers, security engineers, AppSec leads, platform engineering, and incident responders. Plus a public Certified Practitioner programme.

4
Certifications
12+
Hours of curriculum
Self
Self-paced
Free
Free for partners
Certification tracks

Four tracks, four audiences.

Each track ends with an exam and a verifiable, signed certification record.

SCD

Safeguard Certified Developer

For engineers using IDE + CLI + Safeguard Code.

4 hours of self-paced content1-hour exam
  • Lino inline workflows in the IDE.
  • PR-time gates and how to interpret them.
  • Auto-fix review: when to accept, when to push back.
SCSE

Safeguard Certified Security Engineer

For security teams running the platform day to day.

6 hours self-paced1.5-hour exam
  • Eagle/Griffin reasoning trace review.
  • Policy authoring and exception lifecycle.
  • Break-glass workflows and audit reconciliation.
SCPA

Safeguard Certified Platform Administrator

For platform / DevOps owners.

5 hours self-paced1-hour exam
  • Deployment shapes — shared, dedicated, VPC, sovereign.
  • Tenant configuration and capacity planning.
  • SSO / SCIM and audit-log integration with your SIEM.
SCCL

Safeguard Certified Compliance Lead

For GRC / compliance leads.

4 hours self-pacedProject-based capstone
  • Mapping findings to SOC 2, ISO 27001, NIST 800-53, PCI.
  • Evidence collection and continuous control monitoring.
  • Customer security questionnaire automation.
Course catalogue

Shorter courses, deep on a single topic.

Each course is 30–90 minutes. Mix and match, or stack them toward a certification.

60 min

MCP Server fundamentals

What the Model Context Protocol is, how the Safeguard MCP server exposes platform data, and how to wire it into your agent stack.

45 min

AI-BOM 101

AI Bill of Materials — what to track for models, weights, training data references, and runtime dependencies.

90 min

Reachability analysis primer

Static and dynamic reachability — separating exploitable findings from background noise.

60 min

Writing your first policy

From a plain-English security requirement to a versioned, testable policy that gates merges.

45 min

Coordinated disclosure workflow

When the platform finds a third-party vulnerability, how to drive coordinated disclosure cleanly.

75 min

Sovereign deployment readiness

Air-gap installs, customer-controlled keys, and what to evaluate before signing off on sovereign.

30 min

Auto-fix review playbook

A reviewer's checklist for accepting, rejecting, or modifying machine-proposed patches.

60 min

Reading a Griffin reasoning trace

HYPOTHESIS / CITED PATH / DISPROOF / PROPOSED PATCH — interpreting structured reasoning output.

Delivery options

Three ways to learn.

Customer portal

Self-paced

Access the full catalogue via the customer portal. Track progress, retake quizzes, and earn certification badges on completion. Open to every active tenant.

Quarterly cohort · virtual

Instructor-led

A live virtual cohort runs once a quarter for each certification track. Office hours, Q&A with Safeguard engineers, and group exercises against a shared sandbox tenant.

50+ engineers

On-site

For enterprise teams with 50+ engineers, we deliver custom on-site programmes built around your stack, your repos, and your existing security workflows.

For partners & educators

Free Academy access, for the people who teach the next cohort.

Active channel partners

Safeguard Academy is free for engineers and pre-sales staff at active channel partners. Certifications are recognised in our partner directory and feed into partner tiering.

Accredited universities

Accredited universities running secure-software-engineering programmes get bulk access for enrolled students, plus instructor materials and a sandbox tenant for coursework.

Enroll your team.

Talk to us about cohort sizing, on-site programmes, or partner access. We will set up a sandbox tenant and a learning path tailored to your stack.