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.

HandbookFree

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

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PrimerFree

Choosing 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

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PrimerFree

Digital 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

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Body of knowledgePractitioner

Digital 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

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Exam guide · DTFCPractitioner

Preparing 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

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Exam guide · CDTPPractitioner

Preparing 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

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Exam guide · CPTPPractitioner

Preparing 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

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Exam guide · CTTPPractitioner

Preparing 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

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Exam guide · CATPPractitioner

Preparing 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

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HandbookPractitioner

The 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

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PlaybookPractitioner

The 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

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PlaybookPractitioner

The 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

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HandbookPractitioner

The 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

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HandbookExecutive Practitioner

The 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

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HandbookExecutive Practitioner

The 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

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HandbookExecutive Practitioner

Quantifying 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

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