Certifications

From your first course in security to leading through a national crisis: certifications from the National Security Database, delivered by ISAC's training partners and examined by ISAC Foundation.

• Cyber Crime Intervention Officer (CCIO 3.0): Protecting children in a world they understand better than we do.
• NSD Certified Basics of Information Security (NCBIS): Strong security fundamentals, with the AI that modern teams now work with.
• NSD Certified Penetration Tester (NCPT): The complete penetration-testing lifecycle, with AI built in.
• NSD Certified Forensic Investigator (NCFI): From evidence acquisition to the report, on Windows and Linux.
• NSD Certified OSINT Analyst (NCOSA): Open-source intelligence, practised on 60+ real-world scenarios.
• NSD Certified Identity and Access Management Professional (NCIAM): The right people, with the right access, for the right reasons.
• NSD Certified Cloud Security Professional (NCCSP): Cloud security that works on AWS, Azure, Google Cloud and the rest.
• NSD Certified SOC Analyst (NCSA): Triage, hunt and respond: the job of a modern SOC.
• NSD Certified Threat Intelligence Program (NCTI): From raw data to intelligence defenders can act on.
• NSD Certified Reverse Engineer (NCRE): Reverse engineering: the skill under malware analysis, exploits and secure code.
• NSD Certified Malware Analyst (NCMA): Take malware apart, from the first infection to memory forensics.
• NSD Certified Basics of AI (NCBAI): Understand modern AI, from generative AI to agents.
• NSD Certified AI Security Professional (NCAIS): Secure AI. Use AI to secure.
• NSD Certified AI Risk and Governance Program (NCAIRG): Govern AI, from the model to the autonomous agent.
• NSD Certified Security & AI Product Management (NCSAIPM): Become a Security Product Leader: security, product and AI in one role.
• National Cyber Security Scholar Program (NCSSP): Executive cyber leadership for the AI era.
• NSD Certified CPTED Auditor (NCPTED): Design out crime: audit streets, parks and campuses so people feel and are safer.
• NSD Certified OT Security Professional (NCOSP): Defend the control systems that run power, pipelines, metros and plants, on a physical cyber range.