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
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 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.