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SEC-504 Security

Data Privacy & Protection Engineering

Build privacy into pipelines rather than bolting it on: data classification and minimisation, anonymisation and pseudonymisation with their real limits, consent and purpose tracking, residency-aware architecture, and deletion that actually deletes — proven by implementing subject-rights workflows on a realistic dataset.

B4Professional
5modules
35skill atoms
2role journeys
Curriculum

What this course covers.

5 modules, 35 named skill atoms. Expand any module to see them.

1Privacy Engineering Principles7 skill atoms
minimisationpurpose limitation in designprivacy by design & by defaultlawful basis mapped to each processing activitystorage limitation & retention schedulesLINDDUN-style privacy threat modelingdefault-off telemetry collection
2Classification & Discovery7 skill atoms
PII taxonomiesautomated discoverydirect vs indirect identifiers & special categoriescolumn and document level scanninglineage tracking of copies & derivativeslabel propagation through pipelinesdiscovery false positive handling
3De-Identification Reality7 skill atoms
maskingpseudonymisationre-identification riskk-anonymity & l-diversity limitstokenisation with a separated key storequasi-identifier linkage riskdeterministic vs random masking for joins
4Residency Architecture7 skill atoms
regional splitscross-border controlsin-region storage and processing guaranteesbackup, log & metadata residency trapstransfer mechanisms such as SCCs & adequacyregional key management boundariessupport and CDN access egress
5Subject Rights Lab7 skill atoms
access/deletion workflowsevidence of erasurerequester identity verificationrequest fan-out across systems & processorsdeletion in backups, caches & derived storesportability export formatsSLA tracking with audit trail
Where it fits

SEC-504 in the role journeys.

This course appears in 2 of our 45 role journeys. Here is what a learner takes immediately before and after it in each.

Data Platform Engineer

Professional stage
CL-406SEC-504CL-227

GRC / Compliance Analyst

Practitioner stage
SEC-503SEC-504SEC-104

Roles this course serves

The capability ladder

This course is authored to band B4.

Every course we run is written to one rung of the CASI ladder, so a plan can be assembled to take a team from where they are to where they need to be.

What do B1–B6 mean?The CASI Capability Ladder — click to expand

Every course targets a band on the CASI Capability Ladder — our six-band proficiency scale, anchored to open standards (O*NET, ESCO, NICE, NIST AI RMF, Bloom's). A band tells you how deep a course goes, and what evidence proves it.

What the learner can doTypical evidence
B1
AwareUnderstands concepts and vocabulary; uses tools with guidance
Knowledge checks
B2
FoundationPerforms standard tasks correctly in familiar contexts
Guided labs, autograded exercises
B3
PractitionerDelivers complete pieces of work independently
Scenario labs, proctored hands-on exams
B4
ProfessionalHandles production-grade complexity, trade-offs and failure modes
Break-fix drills, design defenses
B5
AdvancedEngineers systems end-to-end under constraints; leads others
Rubric-scored capstones, vivas
B6
ExpertSets direction; recognised authority across teams
Portfolio + panel evaluation

A note on B6. Courses in this catalog target B1–B5. B6 is not taught — it is recognised, through a portfolio and a panel, once someone is setting direction for others. Every journey here is built to land a learner at B5.

Next step

Run SEC-504 for your team.

This course runs at several lengths depending on how deep you need to go and how much of it your people already have. Tell us who is being trained and we will scope it.

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