Digital Assets Custody & Security Professional (DACSP) Certification Program by Tonex
Digital Assets Custody & Security Professional (DACSP) equips you to design, operate, and audit enterprise-grade digital asset custody. You will master MPC, HSM-backed keystores, cold storage orchestration, and emerging quantum-safe wallet approaches. The focus is security-by-design, controls assurance, and resilience. You will translate regulatory requirements into technical safeguards and operating procedures. The curriculum blends architecture deep dives with real-world case discussions and checklists you can apply immediately.
Cybersecurity impact: Strong custody reduces breach blast radius, eliminates single points of failure, and hardens incident response. It also strengthens audit readiness and improves stakeholder trust across treasury, trading, and product lines.
You will learn how to segment trust domains, enforce policy with threshold signatures, and validate vendor claims. You will practice threat modeling for custodial workflows, from deposit to withdrawal to recovery. You will benchmark crypto-primitive choices, secure enclave options, and secure boot paths. You will also prepare governance artifacts, including key ceremony runbooks, continuity plans, and tamper-evidence controls.
The program is technology-agnostic and vendor-neutral. It is built for regulated environments and high-availability operations. All content reflects current standards and supervisory expectations. By graduation, you can evaluate custody architectures, steer risk decisions, and communicate them clearly to security, compliance, and executive audiences. Career credibility and confidence increase.
Learning Objectives:
- Define secure custody models for institutional use
- Map threats and controls across hot, warm, and cold tiers
- Design MPC and HSM architectures with clear trust boundaries
- Govern key lifecycle: generation, storage, rotation, recovery
- Engineer wallet policies, approvals, and transaction limits
- Integrate custody with monitoring, AML, and risk tooling
- Build IR, BCP/DR, and evidence trails for audits
- Evaluate vendors and attestations with objective criteria
Audience:
- Cybersecurity Professionals
- Security Architects and Engineers
- Crypto Operations and Custody Leads
- Risk and Compliance Managers
- Treasury and Product Managers
- Internal/External Auditors and Assessors
- Platform/SRE and DevSecOps Leaders
Course Modules:
Module 1: Custody Fundamentals & Threat Landscape
- Institutional custody models and roles
- Token standards, chain characteristics, and risks
- Attack surface across wallet tiers
- Segregation of duties and trust zones
- Control objectives and assurance families
- Breach case patterns and lessons learned
Module 2: Cryptography & Key Lifecycle
- Entropy quality and key strength baselines
- HD wallets, derivation paths, address hygiene
- Key ceremony design and documentation
- Backup, sharding, escrow, and recovery methods
- Rotation, expiry, and revocation policies
- Quantum-safe primitives and migration roadmaps
Module 3: MPC Architectures & Policy Enforcement
- Threshold schemes, assumptions, and pitfalls
- Coordinator, signer, and enclave roles
- Liveness versus security trade-offs
- Approvals, step-up auth, and velocity limits
- Transaction risk scoring and guardrails
- Vendor evaluation and interoperability checks
Module 4: Hardware Security & HSM Operations
- FIPS levels and certification scope
- Secure boot, attestation, tamper response
- HSM clustering, HA, and failover patterns
- Role/PIN controls and M of N
- Secret storage, TEEs, and enclaves
- Physical, DC, and environmental controls
Module 5: Wallet Ops, Cold Storage & Network Controls
- Air-gap procedures and chain-of-custody
- PSBTs and secure transaction crafting
- Policy engines, allowlists, and denylists
- Monitoring, anomaly detection, AML handoffs
- API security and rate-limit defenses
- Change management and break-glass pathways
Module 6: Governance, Compliance & Incident Response
- Regulatory expectations and supervisory themes
- Risk registers, KRIs, and control testing
- IR playbooks and forensics for digital assets
- Business continuity and disaster recovery
- Third-party risk, SLAs, and oversight
- Evidence capture, audit trails, and reporting
Exam Domains:
- Custodial Governance & Regulatory Alignment
- Cryptographic Assurance & Key Lifecycle Control
- Transaction Integrity, Fraud Controls & AML Interfaces
- Secure Hardware, Enclaves & Physical Safeguards
- Resilience, Continuity & Incident Handling for Digital Assets
- Assurance, Testing & Independent Validation
Course Delivery:
The course is delivered through expert-led lectures, interactive discussions, guided walkthroughs, tabletop exercises, and case studies. Participants access curated online readings, templates, and checklists for immediate use on the job.
Assessment and Certification:
Participants are assessed via quizzes, short assignments, and a capstone project. Upon successful completion, learners receive the DACSP Certification by Tonex.
Question Types:
- Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs)
- Scenario-based Questions
Passing Criteria:
To pass the DACSP Certification Training exam, candidates must achieve a score of 70% or higher.
Ready to secure digital asset custody at scale? Enroll in DACSP by Tonex. Bring this program to your team or schedule a private cohort today.