CIPT: Certified Information Privacy Technologist
The ANAB-accredited CIPT credential proves that you understand how to use technical solutions to build data protection into products and services.
Why pursue a CIPT designation?
- Protect data from various forms of interference.
- Build privacy-friendly products, services and processes by embedding data protection throughout every stage of development.
- Design software and systems to better ensure privacy.
- Establish privacy practices for data security and control, such as minimization, limited access and encryption.
- Audit infrastructure and communicate data protection issues with management, development, marketing and legal departments and collaborate with them to produce solutions.
Consider CIPT training
IAPP’s globally trusted Privacy in Technology training is the principal training for CIPT certification, teaching technology and data professionals how to understand and integrate strategies and techniques to reduce privacy threats.
CIPT practice exam
Written by IAPP-selected data privacy experts and developed from the same body of knowledge used for the actual certification exam, 90 practice exam questions complement your studies by introducing you to the CIPT exam format.
Exam prep tools
Prepare for the exam with these free resources. Please contact our customer support team at certification@iapp.org to access these resources in other languages.
CIPT study guide
Prepare with this downloadable guide that familiarizes you with the exam format and offers sample questions.
How to prepare for your exam
Planning and studying is essential for achieving certification. To help, the IAPP offers textbooks, flexible training options, self-assessment tests and more.
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