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Anthropic's AI-enabled cyber threat research maps autonomous attack chains, MITRE ATT&CK gaps, and why Agentic AI needs stronger security controls.
Reported Instagram account takeovers through Meta's AI support flow expose the risks of giving agents account recovery permissions.
Windows 365 for Agents and Microsoft Agent 365 point to a new enterprise pattern: governed agents running inside auditable Cloud PCs.
A new confidential computing survey explains why agentic AI needs hardware-rooted trust when agents hold memory, credentials, and sensitive context.
Google's latest threat reporting shows AI moving from phishing support into vulnerability discovery and exploit workflows.
Anthropic’s Claude Security public beta gives enterprise teams AI-assisted code scanning, validation, and patch workflows powered by Opus 4.7.
Learn how to implement comprehensive guardrails for AI agents through input/output validation, safety mechanisms, and human oversight. Prevent data leaks, prompt injections, and hallucinations while ensuring secure enterprise adoption.
Understand what AI security is, why it's fundamentally different from traditional software security, and the unique challenges posed by probabilistic AI systems.
Why traditional security models fail when applied to AI. Explore the shift from deterministic vulnerability management to probabilistic behavior control.
Why randomness is a feature, not a bug. Understand how the non-deterministic nature of AI creates unique security vulnerabilities and makes traditional testing difficult.
Words matter. Learn the critical differences between protecting against hackers (Security), preventing user harm (Safety), and ensuring AI goals match human values (Alignment).
Analyze real AI security incidents including ChatGPT data leaks, Bing Chat jailbreaks, and production system compromises. Learn from actual failures.
The knowledge base is the weapon. Learn how attackers inject malicious 'facts' into RAG systems to influence AI responses from the inside.
The trojan horse. Learn how attackers embed prompt injection payloads inside legitimate-looking documents to hijack RAG sessions during retrieval.
Protecting the brain's storage. Learn how to secure Vector Databases (Pinecone, Weaviate, Milvus) against unauthorized access and data exfiltration.
Need-to-know AI. Learn how to implement Document-level Access Control (ACLs) to prevent an AI from accidentally leaking sensitive data to unauthorized users.
When the truth is not enough. Learn how attackers use 'Hallucination Anchoring' and 'Fact-Fudging' to make AI lie confidently even with perfect data.
Who built your brain? Explore the complex supply chain of AI development, from dataset collection to model training and deployment security.
Vulnerabilities in the engine. Learn about common CVEs and security flaws in core machine learning frameworks like PyTorch, TensorFlow, and NumPy.
Protecting the billions. Learn the methods attackers use to steal 'Model Weights' (the AI's brain) and the legal and technical defenses against exfiltration.
Model-turned-malware. Learn the mechanics of the 'Pickle' attack, where downloading a machine learning model leads to full Remote Code Execution (RCE).
The GitHub of AI under fire. Explore the security risks of Hugging Face, model squatting, and how to verify the authenticity of open-source AI weights.
Your data, remembered forever. Learn how Large Language Models accidentally memorize and leak Personally Identifiable Information from their training sets.
Protecting through absence. Learn the crucial principles of data minimization—only giving the AI exactly what it needs and no more.
Privacy through noise. Learn the mathematical foundation of Differential Privacy and how it allows AIs to learn from data without knowing specific individuals.
The right to be forgotten. Learn how to manage user consent for AI training and the complex challenge of deleting data from a 'Memorized' model.
Navigating the rules. Learn how traditional privacy laws like GDPR and CCPA apply to AI systems and the emerging 'EU AI Act' requirements.
The flight recorder. Learn what to log (and what NOT to log) in LLM applications to ensure security without violating user privacy.
Detecting the invisible. Learn how to use 'Scanners' and 'Classifiers' to catch prompt injection attacks before they reach the LLM.
Spotting the outlier. Learn how to detect 'Anomalous' AI behavior, from rapid token consumption to unusual tool-calling sequences.
Managing the frontline. Learn how to build and staff a Security Operations Center (SOC) specialized in monitoring and defending Large Language Models.
When the bot goes bad. Learn how to respond to AI-specific security breaches, from containing a jailbreak to recovering from a data poisoning attack.
Think like a hacker. Learn the strategic steps for planning an AI Red Team engagement, from defining scope to choosing attack vectors.
Firing the cannons. Learn how to use automated scanners like Garak and Microsoft's PyRIT to launch thousands of prompt injection and jailbreak attempts.
The art of the exploit. Learn the manual techniques for creative jailbreaking, including persona adoption, hypothetical scenarios, and payload splitting.
Beyond text. Learn how to test the security of Vision, Audio, and Agentic AI systems where attacks can be hidden in images or executed through tools.
Fixing the flaws. Learn how to document AI security findings, calculate risk scores, and track the 'Remediation' of probabilistic vulnerabilities.
The safety net. Learn the core concepts of AI Guardrails—external security layers that monitor and control the flow of text into and out of an LLM.
The programmable barrier. Learn about NVIDIA's NeMo Guardrails architecture and how to define 'Colang' flows to control AI dialog.
Validation at the gate. Learn how to use the 'Guardrails AI' framework to enforce structural and factual constraints on LLM outputs.
Building the shield yourself. Learn how to write custom Python-based guardrails to enforce your organization's unique security and business policies.
Breaking the muzzle. Learn the techniques attackers use to bypass AI guardrails (obfuscation, translation, multi-turn) and how to harden your defenses.
Locking the gate. Learn the specific security configurations and best practices for using enterprise AI services like Azure OpenAI and AWS Bedrock.
Least privilege for models. Learn how to use IAM roles, policies, and identities to control which users and applications can access your AI models.
Air-gapping the brain. Learn how to use VNETs, VPCs, and Firewalls to ensure your AI infrastructure is never exposed to the public internet.
Protecting the wallet. Learn how to set up alerts and quotas to prevent 'Denial of Wallet' attacks and runaway AI spending.
Sovereign AI. Learn the technical and legal requirements for keeping AI data within specific geographic boundaries and encrypted at every stage.
The glue that breaks. Learn how framework orchestrators like LangChain and LlamaIndex introduce new security vulnerabilities through complex chaining and data handling.
Hardening the chains. Learn specific security configurations for LangChain Agents, including sandboxing, tool limiting, and secure memory management.
Data bridge security. Learn how to secure LlamaIndex data loaders, prevent context poisoning, and implement private data connectors.
The intelligent firewall. Learn how to use Middleware and Proxies (like LiteLLM, Portkey) to centralize security, logging, and access control for all your AI models.
Poking the glue. Learn how to identify and test for vulnerabilities unique to LangChain, LlamaIndex, and other AI orchestration frameworks.
Were you in the dataset? Learn the mathematical attacks used to determine if a specific individual's data was used to train a machine learning model.
Re-creating the secret. Learn how attackers use 'Model Inversion' to reconstruct raw images and text from a machine learning model's output.
New task, old model. Learn how attackers 'Reprogram' pre-trained models to perform entirely different (and potentially malicious) tasks without changing any weights.
Smaller is more vulnerable. Learn how technical optimizations like Quantization and Pruning can accidentally introduce new security vulnerabilities and 'Backdoors' into AI models.
The global hack. Learn how attackers influence the behavior of the world's most powerful Foundation Models (like GPT-4, Llama 3) by poisoning the public internet.
Managing the chaos. Learn how to build a formal Risk Management Framework specifically for AI, based on NIST and ISO standards.
Fairness as a security feature. Learn how to audit AI models for bias, toxicity, and unethical behavior to prevent legal and reputational damage.
Rules of the road. Learn how to write a formal AI Security Policy that defines allowed usage, data handling, and responsibilities for your employees.
Who are you trusting? Learn how to evaluate the security of AI vendors (OpenAI, Anthropic, Midjourney) before integrating them into your business.
Proving your safety. Learn how to prepare for formal AI security audits and earn certifications like the 'EU AI Act' compliance or ISO 42001.
Deconstruct the components of modern AI systems, from data layers to infrastructure, to understand the critical pieces that require security monitoring.
Understand the collapse of the traditional 'Data vs. Instructions' boundary in AI and how to redraw trust lines in LLM-powered applications.
Why LLMs make your application harder to defend. Explore the new attack vectors introduced by prompt manipulation, tool use, and long-term memory.
Who built your model? Explore the security risks associated with third-party model weights, poisoned datasets, and malicious Python libraries in the AI ecosystem.
Protecting the money. Learn the unique requirements for AI security in the finance sector, from Anti-Money Laundering (AML) to fraud detection.
Protecting the patient. Learn the critical security and privacy requirements for AI in healthcare, from HIPAA compliance to securing medical diagnostic models.
Protecting the shop. Learn how to secure AI in e-commerce, from preventing price manipulation in chatbots to securing recommendation engines.
Protecting the public trust. Learn the unique requirements for AI security in the public sector, from FedRAMP compliance to securing citizen data.
Protecting the grid. Learn the high-stakes security requirements for AI in Industrial Control Systems (ICS), energy grids, and manufacturing.
The automated adversary. Explore how attackers use LLMs to automate vulnerability discovery, write malware, and launch massive social engineering campaigns.
The ultimate security challenge. Explore the theories of AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) risk, the 'Inscrutability' of superintelligence, and the 'Stop-Button' problem.
Fighting fire with fire. Explore the emerging field of 'Self-Defending' AI architectures that can detect and respond to attacks without external guardrails.
Security without a center. Explore the risks and defenses for decentralized AI marketplaces (like Bittensor) and Web3-integrated LLMs.
Mastering the shift. A strategic look at the evolving skills, certifications, and mindsets required to lead in the field of AI Security.
Defining the role. A deep dive into the day-to-day responsibilities, toolsets, and team dynamics of a professional AI Security Engineer.
Put it all together. Design a complete security architecture for a hypothetical enterprise AI application, from supply chain to guardrails.
The big picture. A comprehensive review of the 110 lessons covered in this course and the core principles of AI Security.
Test your knowledge. A comprehensive final exam covering all 22 modules of the AI Security course.
Mission accomplished. Learn how to claim your certificate, join the AI security community, and continue your professional journey.
Why firewalls and input validation aren't enough. Learn why traditional security frameworks need to evolve to address the unique challenges of AI.
The industry standard for threat modeling, updated for the era of intelligence. Learn how to map Spoofing, Tampering, and Elevation of Privilege to AI systems.
Meet the new class of vulnerabilities. Explore unique AI threats recognized by OWASP and MITRE ATLAS, including Membership Inference and Model Extraction.
How to think like a manipulator. Master the mental model of 'prompt manipulation' and learn why the best AI hackers are often social engineers, not coders.
Not all threats are equal. Learn how to use the 'Likelihood vs. Impact' matrix to prioritize AI security risks and manage your resource allocation effectively.
Data is the code of AI. Learn why your training datasets must be protected with the same rigor as your production source code to prevent long-term vulnerabilities.
How attackers inject malicious behavior into models. Explore the mechanics of data poisoning and how small amounts of bad data can compromise global models.
Precision poisoning. Learn how to execute label flipping attacks and how 'triggers' are used to create dormant backdoors in neural networks.
Why models shouldn't talk about their past. Explore the risks of personal data leaking from training sets and the 'over-memorization' problem in LLMs.
Know your sources. Learn how to implement data lineage and integrity checks to ensure that your training data hasn't been tampered with or replaced.
Your model is your IP. Learn how attackers use 'Query-Answer' pairs to clone your proprietary models for a fraction of the original training cost.
Is your data in there? Learn how attackers can determine if a specific record (like a medical file) was used to train a model, violating user privacy.
How LLMs recite their training data. Explore the 'Memorization vs. Learning' trade-off and how to prevent your model from leaking secrets.
Reverse-engineering the training set. Learn how attackers work backwards from a model's outputs to reconstruct the sensitive images or text used in training.
Is your model legally protected? Explore the legal and technical landscape of AI IP, from copyright issues to the dangers of using 'License-Violating' data.
Why models misidentify pandas as gibbons. Explore the phenomenon of adversarial examples and how imperceptible noise can fool neural networks.
Slip past the guards. Learn about evasion attacks where AI models are bypassed in real-time to allow malicious files or actors through security filters.
How to craft the perfect attack. Understand the difference between having the model's 'Code' (White-Box) and only having its 'Answers' (Black-Box).
Why we can't just 'Patch' AI. Explore the fundamental reasons why deep neural networks are inherently fragile and vulnerable to adversarial noise.
How to fight back. Explore the most effective ways to defend against adversarial attacks, from adversarial training to input transformation and certified robustness.
The #1 AI security threat. Learn the foundations of prompt injection—how attackers hijack an LLM's logic by blending instructions with data.
Know your vectors. Learn the difference between a user attacking their own session (Direct) and an attacker poisoning external data (Indirect).
Your secret instructions, revealed. Learn how attackers trick LLMs into reciting their internal guidelines, codenames, and proprietary logic.
Breaking the rules. Explore the history and mechanics of AI jailbreaks, from 'DAN' and 'Do Anything Now' to sophisticated persona adoption and adversarial suffixes.
The chain is only as strong as its weakest prompt. Learn how vulnerabilities propagate through multi-step AI workflows (chains) and how to break the cycle.
The 'Implicit Trust' trap. Learn why AI-generated content must be treated as untrusted user input and the dangers of bypassing conventional security checks.
How AI becomes an XSS vector. Learn how attackers use prompt injection to trick LLM-powered websites into rendering malicious scripts for other users.
When AI gets a shell. Learn how attackers use tool-calling AIs to perform Server-Side Request Forgery and Remote Code Execution inside your infrastructure.
The digital car wash. Learn the technical techniques for cleaning AI output before it touches your users, your database, or your infrastructure.
The ultimate firewall. Learn how to implement 'Human-in-the-Loop' (HITL) patterns to prevent AI from executing critical actions without explicit human approval.
From Chatbot to Agent. Learn how giving AI 'Tools' and 'Plugins' exponentially increases your attack surface and creates new vectors for system compromise.
How to trick a deputy. Learn the mechanics of tool injection, where attackers manipulate the arguments and payloads of AI-called functions.
From Guest to Root. Learn how attackers use 'Confused Deputy' agents to gain administrative access to systems they should never be able to reach.
When robots disagree. Learn how advanced multi-agent systems are vulnerable to 'peer manipulation' and recursive exploitation loops.
The App Store of AI. Learn the risks of integrating third-party plugins and how to prevent malicious extensions from stealing user data or hijacking sessions.