Read before you sit. Keep after you pass.
Exam guides with blueprints, weightings and worked examples for every credential; the body of knowledge behind all of them; handbooks and playbooks for the work itself. Three are free, including the DTCF handbook.
The DTCF Handbook
Companion to the Digital Trust Common Framework 2026.1
How to read DTCF, how to use graded mappings to scope work, and how to explain a deliberate absence to an auditor. Published free with the framework.
48 pages · .pdf · edition 2026.1
ContentsChoosing Your Credential
Which ADTP credential fits the work you actually do
The ladder from certificate to certification, what each demands, how long each takes, and how credits carry across credentials.
16 pages · .pdf · edition 2026.1
ContentsDigital Trust in Plain Words
A primer for people who inherited the responsibility
For the person who did not choose this work: what digital trust covers, who owns what, and the first ten things worth doing.
24 pages · .pdf · edition 2026.1
ContentsDigital Trust Body of Knowledge
The reference behind every ADTP credential
The full body of knowledge: domains, competencies and the practices each credential tests, with references into DTCF objectives.
180 pages · .pdf · edition 2026.1
ContentsPreparing for DTFC
Exam guide for the Digital Trust Foundations Certificate
Blueprint, weightings, worked examples and a four-week study plan for the foundations certificate.
40 pages · .pdf · edition 2026.1
ContentsPreparing for CDTP
Exam guide for the Certified Digital Trust Practitioner
The core certification in full: eleven required courses, the ALC threshold, the artefact expectations, the proctored exam and how it is scored.
72 pages · .pdf · edition 2026.1
ContentsPreparing for CPTP
Exam guide for the Certified Privacy Trust Practitioner
Privacy specialisation: scope, blueprint, and the practice areas that carry the most weight.
56 pages · .pdf · edition 2026.1
ContentsPreparing for CTTP
Exam guide for the Certified Third-Party Trust Practitioner
Third-party specialisation: the assessment lifecycle, contracts, monitoring and concentration risk.
56 pages · .pdf · edition 2026.1
ContentsPreparing for CATP
Exam guide for the Certified AI Trust Practitioner
AI governance specialisation: inventories, assessments, oversight and the regulatory picture as tested.
56 pages · .pdf · edition 2026.1
ContentsThe Evidence Handbook
Collecting, keeping and presenting proof
What counts as evidence, how long to keep it, how to reuse one artefact across frameworks, and how to survive a sample request.
64 pages · .pdf · edition 2026.1
ContentsThe Third-Party Risk Playbook
Running a programme that scales with the vendor list
Tiering, questionnaires that earn their length, contract terms, monitoring and offboarding, at three organization sizes.
68 pages · .pdf · edition 2026.1
ContentsThe Privacy Operations Playbook
From notice to deletion, with the work in between
Records of processing, rights requests, retention, transfers and vendor privacy, run as operations rather than paperwork.
72 pages · .pdf · edition 2026.1
ContentsThe Incident Handbook
The first hour, the first day, the week after
Roles, triage, notification clocks, evidence preservation and the retrospective that changes something.
56 pages · .pdf · edition 2026.1
ContentsThe Board Reporting Handbook
Saying what matters in one page
What boards ask, what they should be told, and how to report risk and assurance without a heat map doing the work.
44 pages · .pdf · edition 2026.1
ContentsThe Programme Leadership Handbook
Owning digital trust across a business
Standing up and running the programme: mandate, funding, operating model, maturity and the politics of shared accountability.
80 pages · .pdf · edition 2026.1
ContentsQuantifying Risk
Ranges, calibration and decisions
Moving from colours to money: building defensible ranges, calibrating estimates, and using the result to make a decision.
60 pages · .pdf · edition 2026.1
ContentsWritten and maintained by the association. Guides are revised each edition; the edition is printed on the cover.