Training and Certifications
Boost your OneTrust knowledge and skills
The OneTrust Certification program is the industry's most recognized and trusted training program, offered exclusively to our customers and partners. We provide comprehensive, free online courses along with in-person paid engagement options tailored to both beginners and advanced professionals.
Earn your OneTrust certification
1 | Attend the elected prerequisite course |
Available as an instructor-led session or self-paced eLearning.
2 | Pass the exam |
Complete an exam within the designated timeframe to earn a certificate of completion.
3 | Complete courses and receive a badge |
Complete advanced courses and exams in a learning track and receive a Credly badge for completion of all courses in the learning track.
Legal Disclaimer:
No part of this training program and its supporting material(s) may be reproduced in any form without the written permission of OneTrust. The contents of the trainings and their supporting material(s) may be revised by OneTrust in its sole discretion, without notice, due to continued progress in the methodology of the Certification, any changes in applicable laws, regulations or related guidance, or for any other reason. OneTrust shall have no liability for any error or damage of any kind resulting from the use of the trainings, their content, supporting material(s), or the information provided therewith. The content of these trainings, supporting material, and any materials and other information conveyed during the trainings are for informational purposes only and do not constitute legal advice (and should not be relied upon as such).
Updated OneTrust certification program: What's new?
Learn about the new course tracks you can participate in to advance your knowledge and earn badges.
Training and certifications brochure
Download the training and certification brochure to learn more about our new certifications.
Gain the skills you can put to work
OneTrust customers and partners can begin with our prerequisite courses and unlock the advanced sessions as you deepen their knowledge. Earn a Track badge for each completed certification learning track.
Not yet a customer or partner? Complete this form to learn more about the OneTrust platform.
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Privacy Automation
The Privacy Automation Track provides perspective and insight into key components within a privacy program, including assessment management, creating and updating data maps, responding to privacy rights requests, and configuring strategies to streamline incident response.
If this is your first e-learning certification course since March 1, 2025, complete these steps before registration:
- Go to https://labs.onetrust.com/
- Click the "Log In" button in the top right
- Click the MyOneTrust button
- Log in to MyOnetrust
- Confirm a user profile is seen in the top right
During the new program's pilot period, only the first 300 registrations will gain access to a Hands-on-Lab. Registration caps will be removed entirely in the coming weeks.
- Pilot e-learning Data mapping: Available
- Pilot e-learning Incident management: Available
- e-learning Data Subject request: Coming Soon
Foundational
Incident management: Foundations
Leverage AI-powered features for incident management. Customize workflows and streamline incident reporting to reduce manual load, boosting efficiency. Discover the power of Dynamic Incident Notification Assessments (DINA). Configure self-service reporting to facilitate robust privacy protections.
Data Mapping Automation Foundations
Master the essentials of data mapping and assessment automation. Customize templates and questionnaires to perform bulk data updates, ensuring accuracy and regulatory compliance. Use assessment to efficiently manage risks end-to-end. Create inventory item attributes, add and manage assets / activities. Visualize data by building data graphs. Leverage One Trust for a comprehensive overview of your data management processes.
Data Subject Request Automation: Foundations
Consolidate and manage DSRs via OneTrust’s encrypted comms portal. Learn how to create and optimize effective workflows, update and test web forms, set precise routing rules. Scale efficiency by using existing or configurable response templates. Equip your teams to significantly improve your operational approach to DSR automation.
Consent & Preferences
The Consent & Preferences Management Track teaches how to use several OneTrust capabilities to receive, manage, update, and act on data subject consent to remain compliant with global laws and regulations.
*Instructor-led training is available now. e-learning courses are coming soon.
Foundational
Consent & Preferences : Solution Foundations
Configure cookie consent banners, geolocation rules, cookie categories. Manage user data preferences end-to-end. Leverage practical insights of consent tracking, preferences management and compliance. Optimize your approach and ensure stronger regulatory alignment.
Data Discovery & Classification
The Data Discovery & Classification Track breaks down how data flows through the OneTrust platform, the technical requirements to connect to data sources, and how discovered and classified data can be used to execute and automate data policies and/or respond to privacy rights requests.
Foundational
Coming Soon — Data Discovery: Product Overview
This course teaches the functionalities, key terms, connections, and concepts of the Data Discovery & Classification capabilities, providing learners the ability to explain navigation, components, and core data flows within the platform.
AI Governance
The AI Governance Track provides insight into the various aspects of managing AI technologies in the OneTrust platform. The courses within this track demonstrate how to configure and manage the product based on how AI is used within an organization, such as governing AI/ML development and mitigating third-party AI risk.
Foundational
Coming Soon — AI Governance: Product Overview
Master the essentials of the AI Governance product within the OneTrust platform. Recognize how to navigate within the product and perform key configurations needed to get up and running with AI Governance, including how to create attributes, templates, and relationships for managing the responsible use of AI within the organization.
Tech Risk & Compliance
The Tech Risk & Compliance Track breaks down several capabilities within the OneTrust platform, such as risk identification, scoring, and mitigation, policy management, compliance automation, and issues management.
*Instructor-led training is available now. e-learning courses are coming soon.
Foundational
Tech Risk & Compliance: Solutions Overview
This course defines, diagrams, and breaks down key terminology, elements, concepts, and data flows that OneTrust uses across several of the platform’s capabilities to solve many tech risk & compliance use cases.
Third-Party Management
The Third-Party Management Track focuses on the tools within the OneTrust platform that assist with streamlining vendor management. The courses within this track provide insight on the configuration of workflows, documentation of vendors in the inventory, creation of automation rules, use of engagements and contracts, and more.
*Instructor-led training is available now. e-learning courses are coming soon.
Foundational
Third-Party Risk Management: Solution Foundations
Master the essentials of configuring the platform for managing third parties within the organization. This includes building out attributes and assessment templates for gathering information and assessing these vendors within the Third-Party Risk Management product as well as utilizing the Exchange in the process.
Prerequisites
To unlock the rest of the courses in the track, you are required to complete the prerequisites.
Registering for the Track
Click ‘Start this Track now’ to be directed to OneTrust University where you can start this track by taking the prerequisites.
Instructor-Led or eLearning
You choose! Once you are directed to register to this Certification Track, you can choose which format you would like to take each course in.
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Meet your instructors and instructional designers
Jason Trankle
Principal Training Consultant
Jasmine Bohman
Principal Training Consultant
Alberto Camporesi
Senior Training Consultant
Israel Borges
Senior Training Consultant
Nicole Isaacs
Principal Training Consultant
Jonathan Belanger
Manager, Instructional Design
Kaci Roper
Senior instructional Designer
Amanda Jaconelli
Senior Instructional Designer
Jordyn Daws
Senior Instructional Designer
Meet the Global Director
Jennifer Schmidt, PhD
Senior Director, Global Training & Certifications
“I’ve been able to keep my skills sharp and up to date through OneTrust’s extensive training program for many years. I’ve used both eLearning and Instructor-led experiences, and both have been invaluable to me personally and to my employers.”
Jennifer Carlson
Client Technical Advisor – Global Data Security, Responsible AI, and Privacy Services
Kyndryl
“I started in data privacy and compliance in 2015 and in 2022 I wanted to learn a best-in-practice tool. The OneTrust training was exceptional. The OneTrust team went above and beyond to accommodate my learning disability, ensuring I fully understood the tool and its processes.”
Robert Shingles
Non-Profit Co-Founder
Legal, Compliance, Security (LCS) ThinkTank & Social Network
“I have completed several courses and have enjoyed the comprehensive and well-structured content. My work with the OneTrust tool improved, and my expertise grew day by day. The blend of eLearning and instructor-led experiences provided a flexible and engaging learning environment.”
Anil Patil
FAQ
For more answers, please check our full FAQs.
To register for our certification courses please click on 'Start learning now’. You will need to log into your My.onetrust.com account before being redirected to our OneTrust University platform. If you don’t currently have a My.onetrust.com login, please reach out to your Account Manager or email Sales@onetrust.com
Please be prepared with a WiFi-compatible laptop or device with a charging cord. This is to ensure you can fully participate in all our hands-on exercises. We also highly encourage having at least two screens, one for the course/webinar, one for the Hands-on Lab. Once you launch the course, a Hands-on Lab will be assigned to you automatically. Access to the Hands-on Lab will expire after 7 calendar days from the time you launched the course.
Please note – we are unable to extend this access under any circumstance.
You can earn a Track badge after completing all the certification courses of a learning track. Please click on the following link to see the different courses in each learning track.