Generative AI for Cybersecurity Professionals
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Generative AI for Cybersecurity Professionals
This course is part of Cybersecurity Analyst Specialization
Instructor: Edureka
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What you'll learn
Analyze AI and LLM architectures used in cybersecurity operations and SOC workflows.
Apply secure prompt engineering techniques to mitigate injection and misuse risks.
Evaluate adversarial machine learning threats across AI pipelines and models.
Design governance and compliance controls for responsible and secure AI deployment.
Skills you'll gain
- Cyber Risk
- Automation
- Large Language Modeling
- Cyber Threat Intelligence
- Cyber Security Policies
- LLM Application
- Machine Learning
- Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML)
- Generative Model Architectures
- Cyber Security Strategy
- Cyber Attacks
- Responsible AI
- Cybersecurity
- AI Security
- Data Ethics
- AI Integrations
- Security Awareness
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There are 3 modules in this course
This program equips cybersecurity professionals, AI security practitioners, SOC leaders, and governance specialists with the expertise required to integrate Artificial Intelligence and Generative AI into security operations responsibly and securely. You will begin by exploring AI fundamentals, comparing traditional detection approaches with AI-driven analytics, and understanding how Large Language Models enhance SOC workflows. Through guided demonstrations, you will examine real-world applications such as AI-based malware detection, automated triage, and intelligent threat analysis.
Building on AI foundations, you will explore transformer architectures, evaluate LLM capabilities and limitations, and apply AI systems to cybersecurity use cases. Emphasis is placed on identifying output risks, implementing guardrails, and maintaining human oversight in AI-assisted workflows. Next, the program advances into secure prompt engineering and AI system defense. You will learn how prompt injection attacks occur, how adversarial machine learning manipulates models, and how AI pipelines can be hardened against misuse. Structured exercises demonstrate how robust model training, monitoring, and validation reduce AI-specific security risks. The course then expands into governance, ethics, and compliance frameworks. You will analyze bias, fairness, transparency, and accountability challenges in AI systems, and align AI deployment with recognized standards such as NIST and regulatory compliance frameworks. Practical examples demonstrate how to audit AI systems and establish responsible oversight mechanisms. Finally, you will integrate AI security, adversarial defense, and governance strategies in a structured practice project, designing a secure AI-enabled SOC framework aligned with enterprise risk management principles. By the end of this program, you will be able to: -Explain AI, GenAI, and LLM concepts in cybersecurity contexts. -Apply AI and LLMs to enhance SOC detection and triage workflows. -Design secure prompt engineering and guardrail controls. -Identify vulnerabilities across AI pipelines and system architectures. -Defend against adversarial machine learning attacks. -Implement ethical, transparent, and compliant AI governance frameworks. -Audit AI-assisted decisions for bias, risk, and misuse. -Design a secure AI-driven security operations strategy. This course is designed for SOC professionals, cybersecurity engineers, AI security practitioners, governance officers, and security leaders seeking to responsibly integrate AI into enterprise defense strategies. Join us to build the technical insight, defensive resilience, and governance expertise required to secure AI-powered cybersecurity operations in modern enterprises.
Understand how artificial intelligence, generative AI, and large language models are reshaping modern cybersecurity operations. Learn how AI-driven systems enhance traditional security controls, improve threat detection accuracy, and accelerate SOC workflows. Explore real-world applications of AI in malware detection, password security, and threat analysis, while examining the core architectures behind generative AI systems, including transformers, GANs, VAEs, and LLMs.
What's included
17 videos6 readings3 assignments
17 videosβ’Total 79 minutes
- Specialization Introductionβ’2 minutes
- Course Introductionβ’5 minutes
- Introducing AI in Cybersecurityβ’6 minutes
- Comparing Traditional Security and AI-Driven Detectionβ’5 minutes
- Exploring the Real-world Applications of AI in Cyber Defenseβ’6 minutes
- Introduction to Generative AI Systemsβ’5 minutes
- Modeling Core Generative AI Systemsβ’6 minutes
- Analyzing Key Generative AI Models (GANs, VAEs, LLMs)β’5 minutes
- Demonstration: Introduction about Google Colab Interfaceβ’3 minutes
- Demonstration: Traditional vs AI-Driven Malware Detectionβ’5 minutes
- Demonstration: Using AI and Gen AI to Improve Password Securityβ’5 minutes
- Transformers: The AI Backboneβ’6 minutes
- Exploring Large Language Model Architecturesβ’3 minutes
- Classifying Key LLM Models (GPT, Gemini, LLaMA)β’5 minutes
- Evaluating LLM Capabilities and Limitations in Cybersecurityβ’4 minutes
- Demonstration: Using LLMs for Threat Detection and Analysisβ’5 minutes
- Demonstration: Evaluating LLM Output for Security Risksβ’4 minutes
6 readingsβ’Total 65 minutes
- Course Overviewβ’15 minutes
- Machine Learning Foundations for Cybersecurityβ’10 minutes
- AI-Driven Threat Detection and Response in Modern Cybersecurityβ’10 minutes
- Foundations of Transformers and Large Language Modelsβ’10 minutes
- Secure and Effective Use of LLMs in SOC Operationsβ’10 minutes
- Module Summary: Artificial Intelligence and Large Language Models in Cybersecurityβ’10 minutes
3 assignmentsβ’Total 42 minutes
- Knowledge Check: Artificial Intelligence and Large Language Models in Cybersecurityβ’30 minutes
- Test Your Knowledge: Leveraging AI and LLMs in Cybersecurityβ’6 minutes
- Test Your Knowledge: Applying and Securing AI and LLMs for Cyber Defenseβ’6 minutes
Develop a strong foundation in prompt engineering and AI system security to ensure safe and reliable use of large language models in cybersecurity environments.Explore AI system architectures to understand security vulnerabilities across data pipelines, model training, and deployment layers. Gain practical insight into adversarial machine learning attacks and defensive strategies, while learning to critically evaluate AI and LLM outputs for security risks, reliability issues, and potential misuse in real-world operations.
What's included
12 videos5 readings3 assignments
12 videosβ’Total 59 minutes
- Introducing Prompt Engineering Conceptsβ’5 minutes
- Crafting Secure and Effective Promptsβ’6 minutes
- Identifying Risks in Improper Promptingβ’5 minutes
- Exploring Advanced Prompting Techniquesβ’5 minutes
- Demonstration: Applying Prompt Engineering Techniques for Secure AIβ’5 minutes
- Exploring AI System Architectures and Componentsβ’4 minutes
- Identifying Vulnerabilities Across AI Pipelinesβ’6 minutes
- Understanding Adversarial Machine Learning Attacksβ’4 minutes
- Methods of Crafting Adversarial Attacksβ’5 minutes
- Demonstration: Building Robust ML Models with Adversarial-Style Trainingβ’5 minutes
- Shielding AI Systems from Adversarial Threatsβ’3 minutes
- Demonstration: Defending AI Systems Against Adversarial Inputsβ’5 minutes
5 readingsβ’Total 50 minutes
- Foundations of Prompt Engineering for Secure and Effective LLM Interactionβ’10 minutes
- Controlling AI Behavior Under Attackβ’10 minutes
- Securing AI Systems: Architecture, Pipelines, and Attack Surfacesβ’10 minutes
- Attacking and Hardening AI Modelsβ’10 minutes
- Module Summary: Prompt Engineering and AI System Securityβ’10 minutes
3 assignmentsβ’Total 42 minutes
- Knowledge Check: Prompt Engineering and AI System Securityβ’30 minutes
- Test Your Knowledge: Foundations of Prompt Engineering for Secure AIβ’6 minutes
- Test Your Knowledge: Securing AI Systems and Defending Against Adversarial MLβ’6 minutes
Secure enterprise environments by implementing AI-aware operating system and network defense mechanisms. Learn how to protect AI-enabled systems by hardening configurations, enforcing access controls, and monitoring AI-driven workloads for misuse and anomalous behavior. Design and secure infrastructures that support AI applications using layered defenses, continuous monitoring, and traffic analysis. Gain hands-on experience evaluating AI system interactions and operational telemetry to ensure integrity, visibility, and rapid detection of security risks across modern enterprise environments.
What's included
19 videos8 readings6 assignments1 discussion prompt
19 videosβ’Total 92 minutes
- Identifying Common Attack Vectors in Generative AI Systemsβ’4 minutes
- Analyzing Prompt Injection Attackβ’5 minutes
- Demonstration: Containing Prompt Injection and Model Abuseβ’5 minutes
- Examining AI Jailbreak Techniquesβ’4 minutes
- Exploring Model Theft and Extraction Attacksβ’4 minutes
- Securing AI Data Against Poisoning Risksβ’7 minutes
- Introducing Multimodal AI for Cybersecurityβ’4 minutes
- Demonstration: Applying Multimodal AI to Threat Detection Use Casesβ’6 minutes
- Multimodal and Agentic AI for SOC Workflowsβ’3 minutes
- Exploring Agentic AI for Cybersecurity Operationsβ’6 minutes
- Demonstration: Leveraging Agentic AI for Cybersecurity Triageβ’6 minutes
- Using Generative AI for Security Automation and Intelligenceβ’4 minutes
- Addressing Bias, Fairness, and Ethical Risks in AI Systemsβ’5 minutes
- Ensuring Transparency and Accountability in Generative AIβ’4 minutes
- AI Regulations and Risk Frameworks (GDPR, NIST, ISO)β’3 minutes
- Conducting AI Audits and Legal Risk Assessmentsβ’5 minutes
- Exploring AI Security Tool: Sola Securityβ’6 minutes
- Ethical Screening Using Sola Securityβ’6 minutes
- Course Summaryβ’4 minutes
8 readingsβ’Total 100 minutes
- Detecting Synthetic Content in Generative AIβ’10 minutes
- GenAI Risks in IoT and Physical Systemβ’10 minutes
- Working of Agentic AI for SOC β’10 minutes
- GenAI for Security Automation and Responseβ’10 minutes
- When AI Trust Breaks: Ethical Risk Explainedβ’10 minutes
- Proving Responsible AI: Audits and Oversightβ’10 minutes
- Module Summary: Advanced Security, Ethics, and Governance for Generative AIβ’10 minutes
- Practice Project: Secure AI-Enabled SOC and Governance Frameworkβ’30 minutes
6 assignmentsβ’Total 108 minutes
- Knowledge Check: Advanced Security, Ethics, and Governance for Generative AIβ’30 minutes
- End Course Knowledge Check: Generative AI-Powered Security and SOC Automationβ’30 minutes
- Designing a Secure AI-Driven Security Operations Frameworkβ’30 minutes
- Test Your Knowledge: Threats and Vulnerabilities in Generative AI Systemsβ’6 minutes
- Test Your Knowledge: Leveraging Multimodal and Agentic AI for Security Automationβ’6 minutes
- Test Your Knowledge: AI Ethics, Governance, and Regulatory Complianceβ’6 minutes
1 discussion promptβ’Total 5 minutes
- Describe Your Learning Journey β’5 minutes
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This course is ideal for cybersecurity professionals, SOC engineers, AI practitioners, and governance specialists.
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