CAIN-42 CAIN StudioCAIN-42 ACADEMY
Learn to govern AI agents that act.
Earn certificates that prove it.
12 CAIN-42 certificates, 50 lessons built on real code, server-graded exams and certificate IDs anyone can check. Every higher certificate starts with the CAIN-42 Novice Certificate.
The certification ladder
Professional certificates
Each requires the CAIN-42 Novice Certificate. 5 modules, a practice check in every lesson, then a 20-question, 30-minute exam graded on the server (85% to pass).
CAIN Certified Agentic Security Practitioner
Design and review a runtime control layer that decides every agent action before it runs, fails closed, and leaves evidence.
CMSECAIN MCP Security Engineer
Find poisoned or over-privileged MCP tools, harden their definitions, and put a deciding boundary in front of them.
CAIUCAIN AI Insurance & Risk Underwriting Analyst
Read an evidence-derived agent-fleet risk score, explain each factor, and tell what it does and does not support in an underwriting conversation.
CAGACAIN AI Governance & Compliance Evidence Specialist
Map EU AI Act articles, ISO/IEC 42001 and NIST AI RMF expectations to runtime evidence, and produce an honest evidence pack.
CARTCAIN Agentic Red Team Operator
Plan and run an authorized agent red-team engagement, find authority and boundary failures, and turn every finding into a permanent regression test.
CBTFCAIN Byzantine Trust Fabric Engineer
Explain PBFT, operate a 4-replica cluster, read quorum certificates, and run honest soak tests.
CEFVCAIN Evidence & Forensics Verifier
Verify hash chains, Merkle proofs and signatures offline, grade evidence strength, and spot tampering.
CGMSCAIN Governed Memory & Data Protection Specialist
Design agent memory that resists poisoning, isolates tenants, redacts personal data and supports provable deletion.
CAAECAIN Agent Assurance & Reliability Engineer
Build deterministic agent regression tests, grade trajectories without an LLM judge, and run continuous re-authorization.
CFVECAIN Formal Verification & Proof Engineer
Express safety rules as solver queries, interpret SAT/UNSAT/UNKNOWN correctly, and attach proofs to AI-generated fixes.
Active students use everything free
Hold the Novice Certificate, enrol, and keep one continuous 3-hour study session in the Academy every 7 days: the whole CAIN-42 catalog is free for you while you pursue your next certificate.
Get your free student key →Why these certificates are valuable now
For years AI security meant filtering what a model said. In 2026 agents call tools, move money, change databases and message customers. The risk moved from the conversation channel to the execution channel, and most security teams were trained for the first one. The CAIN-42 certificates are built entirely around the second: deciding every consequential action before it runs, failing closed, and keeping evidence.
Cisco's AI Workforce Consortium found that 28.5% of cybersecurity job postings across G7 countries asked for AI skills between October 2025 and March 2026, up from 14.2% a year earlier, and leaders named hands-on experience with AI agents as the hardest entry-level competency to find. Every CAIN-42 lesson is built on running agent-security code, so the time you spend here is time spent on that exact gap.
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