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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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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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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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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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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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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