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About NextLabs Certified Solutions Specialist (NCSS)
The NextLabs Certified Solutions Specialist (NCSS) program validates IT professionals’ and governance, risk, compliance, and security specialists’ technical expertise through rigorous hands-on projects and exams covering various NextLabs products, technologies, and solutions.
NCSS Certification Courses Schedules
All session times are listed in Pacific Time (PT).
Policy Platform
(Prerequisite for Data-Centric Security Products for SAP Course)
- Prerequisites: None
- Learning Objectives:
- Gain foundational understanding of the CloudAz Platform
- Fundamentals of policy authoring – policy modelling, policy structures, syntax, component definitions, and key theoretical aspects necessary for creating and testing effective security and compliance policies
- Best practices for managing and governing policies in CloudAz – policy lifecycle management, auditing, version control
- Learn about the reporting and analytics capabilities of CloudAz
- Gain hands-on experience in writing policies, troubleshooting errors, and implementing use cases to enforce security controls through exercises and a take-home assignment
- Sessions
- CloudAz Overview
- Policy Authoring Basics Part 1
- Policy Authoring Basics Part 2
- Policy Management
- Standard Reports
- Hands-on Exercises
- Hands-on Exercises
2026 Course Schedule
Session time: 7:30 AM – 9:30 AM PT
- Nov | Start: Mon, Nov 16 | End: Tue, Nov 24 – Open
Data-Centric Security Products for SAP
- Prerequisites: NCSS Policy Platform Course
- Focus: Design controls using DAE for SAP
- Learning Objectives:
- Extend your knowledge of NextLabs’ Policy Platform to SAP
- Articulate the value to clients of NextLabs’ capabilities for SAP when addressing concerns like Export Controls, IP protection, and PII
- Learn features like Data Filtering, Data Masking, and Data Obfuscation
- Get an overview of the full range of SAP products that NextLabs offers
- Learn our implementation methodology
- Gain practical hands-on experience by using the Policy Platform and SAP GUI to implement policy controls
- Provide students with hands-on experience through exercises and a take-home assignment
- Sessions
- Overview
- Data Masking
- Data Filtering
- Format Preserving Encryption (FPE)
- Hands-On Session
- Hands-On Session
- Hands-On Session
- Business Cases and Implementation Methodology
- DAM, DLP, and EDRM
- Other SAP Applications
2026 Course Schedule
Session time: 7:30 AM – 9:30 AM PT
- Dec | Start: Wed, Dec 2 | End: Tue, Dec 15 – Open
SkyDRM
- Prerequisites: None
- Learning Objectives:
- Explain Enterprise Digital Rights Management (EDRM) concepts and business applications
- Describe SkyDRM’s architecture and core components
- Configure administration settings and user attributes
- Author access control policies using policy authoring concepts, including classifications, policy syntax, attributes, and other features
- Understand the functionality of the SkyDRM Web Client, SkyDRM Desktop for Windows, and the SkyDRM Rights Protection Tool
- Operate SkyDRM’s auditing and reporting features
- Provide students with hands-on experience through exercises and a take-home assignment
- Sessions
- Introduction to SkyDRM
- Core Functionalities
- Administration Console
- Policy Authoring
- Web Client
- Rights Management Desktop (RMD)
- Rights Protection Tool (RPT)
- Reporting and Auditing
- Hands-On Session
- Hands-On Session
2026 Course Schedule
Session time: 7:30 AM – 9:30 AM PT
Please note that all sessions for 2026 have concluded. The next course run is scheduled for January 2027.
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Registration Has Closed – New Dates Coming Soon
Thank you for your interest. Registration for March-April series has now closed.
We will be announcing new upcoming sessions shortly. Please check back soon for updated dates and registration details.
