Certified Digital Trust Practitioner
The core credential for practitioners who run trust work day to day. It shows you can take an organization through audits, risks, vendors, incidents and privacy requests, and produce the evidence to prove it.
What it shows you can do
- Run SOC 2 and multi-framework programs with evidence that holds up
- Keep a risk register executives use, and handle risk acceptances properly
- Handle incidents, breach notifications and vendor risk in practice
- Write policies and obligation registers people follow
Who it's for
Practitioners with at least a year in security, privacy, GRC or audit. Newer practitioners can qualify by completing the capstone instead.
Your path to CDTP
Your dashboard tracks each step against your record, so you always know what's done and what's left.
- 1Complete the required courses11 courses, 32.5 ALCs. Each ends with a deliverable you keep.
- DTF-101What Digital Trust Means in Your Job3 ALCs
- DTF-110Ethics and Judgement Calls for Practitioners1.5 ALCs
- DTF-120Reading a Regulation Without a Lawyer2 ALCs
- GRC-201SOC 2 From the Inside: Scoping, Ownership, Evidence and the Auditor4 ALCs
- GRC-203Control Mapping and Evidence Reuse Across SOC 2, ISO, NIST CSF and HITRUST3 ALCs
- GRC-210Policies People Read: Writing, Versioning, Acknowledgement and Training Binding3 ALCs
- GRC-220Evidence Management and Audit Readiness3 ALCs
- PRV-260Breach Notification Decisions Under Pressure3 ALCs
- TPR-201Building a Third-Party Risk Program: From Zero and At Scale4 ALCs
- CYB-230Incident and Breach Readiness: Tabletop to Regulator3 ALCs
- OPS-201A Risk Register Executives Use3 ALCs
- 2Show practical experienceAt least 1 year working in the field, or complete the capstone, Capstone: Build a 90-Day Trust Program for a Real Organisation.
- 3Pass the assessmentA proctored, scenario-based exam that asks what you would do in a given situation, not what a framework says, plus a review of the deliverables you built in your courses.
- 4Affirm the code of ethicsA short annual affirmation of the ADTP code of ethics.
Keeping it current
The credential is valid for 3 years. You renew it with continuing education and the annual ethics affirmation, so it keeps saying something true about you.
Anyone can check it
Your credential has a public verification page and an Open Badges assertion you can add to LinkedIn. Employers and clients can confirm it in seconds.