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This Specialization prepares learners to design, deploy, and secure generative AI systems with confidence and responsibility. As generative AI and large language models (LLMs) transform industries, securing these technologies is critical. Through three courses, you will build foundational knowledge of generative AI, learn to recognize and mitigate risks, and gain hands-on practice in applying defensive strategies to protect AI-powered systems.
You will be able to explain generative AI fundamentals, identify vulnerabilities in AI workflows, implement security measures to defend against adversarial attacks, and design responsible AI deployments aligned with best practices.
This program is ideal for students, developers, AI engineers, data scientists, and cybersecurity professionals, as well as business and IT leaders who need to ensure safe AI adoption.
Basic knowledge of Python and familiarity with AI or machine learning concepts are recommended. No prior cybersecurity expertise is required.
Courses Included:
Generative AI for Security Fundamentals – Understand core AI architectures and security basics. Generative AI and LLM Security – Focus on securing LLMs, safe deployment, and responsible use. Securing AI Systems – Learn about vulnerabilities, adversarial attacks, and defenses.
By the end of this Specialization, you will have the skills to build secure, ethical, and trustworthy generative AI applications for real-world impact.
Syllabus
- Course 1: Generative AI for Security Fundamentals
- Course 2: Generative AI and LLM Security
- Course 3: Securing AI Systems
Courses
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This program equips cybersecurity professionals, AI engineers, and security architects with the expertise to identify, analyze, and mitigate vulnerabilities in Generative AI (GenAI) and Large Language Models (LLMs). You’ll begin by exploring the foundations of GenAI threats, examining common attack vectors such as prompt injection, jailbreaks, model theft, and adversarial manipulation. Through practical demonstrations, you will learn how attackers exploit weaknesses in AI-driven systems and how defenders can detect and respond to these risks in real-world environments. Building on these fundamentals, you’ll gain hands-on experience in securing LLM applications, aligning model outputs to security objectives, and applying guardrails, watermarking, and safety evaluation methods. You’ll also work with API integrations using platforms like Gemini API and Google Colab to simulate secure deployment practices and mitigate risks in live systems. Next, the program delves into AI lifecycle security, covering strategies to secure training data, prevent poisoning attacks, and protect AI pipelines. You’ll explore model provenance, dependency scanning, and secure deployment pipelines—ensuring the integrity of AI systems across their entire supply chain. The course also emphasizes AI ethics and compliance, including bias detection, fairness in model design, and global regulatory frameworks like GDPR, CCPA, NIST AI RMF, ISO standards, and the EU AI Act. Using tools like Sola Security, you’ll practice auditing, governance, and risk management to operationalize ethical and compliant AI practices. Finally, you’ll examine frontier threats in emerging domains such as multimodal AI and Agentic AI, exploring adversarial attacks, cross-modal vulnerabilities, and their implications for enterprise cybersecurity. By the end of this program, you will be able to: - Identify and evaluate attack vectors targeting GenAI and LLMs. - Apply secure prompt engineering and defense strategies against prompt injection and jailbreaks. - Design and implement guardrails, safety mechanisms, and watermarking in LLM applications. - Protect AI training data, pipelines, and deployment workflows from poisoning and supply chain risks. - Assess and enforce regulatory compliance with GDPR, CCPA, NIST, ISO, and the EU AI Act. - Recognize and mitigate frontier threats in multimodal and agentic AI systems. - Integrate ethical, transparent, and resilient security practices across the AI lifecycle. This specialization is designed for cybersecurity engineers, LLM developers, AI security specialists, ML engineers, and cloud/edge security architects who want to build advanced expertise in safeguarding GenAI systems. Join us to gain the skills, tools, and strategies required to secure next-generation AI systems against evolving adversarial threats.
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This program equips cybersecurity professionals, IT teams, and business leaders with foundational knowledge and practical skills to secure AI-driven systems using Generative AI and Large Language Models (LLMs). You’ll start by understanding AI’s role in cybersecurity, exploring traditional security methods, LLM architectures, and how GenAI applications are transforming threat detection and defense mechanisms. Next, you’ll dive into Generative AI security fundamentals, learning prompt engineering techniques, risks of manipulation, and how to securely design interactions with AI models. You’ll also gain hands-on experience applying LLMs to threat analysis, identity management, and security automation. By the end of this program, you will be able to: - Explain the foundational concepts of AI and its implications for cybersecurity. - Differentiate between traditional AI, LLMs, and Generative AI applications in security contexts. - Apply secure prompt engineering methods and mitigate risks associated with AI interactions. - Use LLMs to enhance threat detection, identity management, and automation in security workflows. - Identify vulnerabilities in AI architectures and implement best practices to secure models - Understand adversarial machine learning techniques and deploy defenses to protect AI systems. - Evaluate AI-driven security processes for ethical, transparent, and resilient operations. This course is designed for cybersecurity engineers, AI security specialists, LLM engineers, ML engineers, and cloud/edge security architects looking to build expertise in AI security. Join us to develop the skills needed to protect modern cybersecurity environments with AI-powered solutions and best practices.
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Securing AI Systems is a hands-on course designed to help you safeguard machine learning applications against real-world threats. You will explore vulnerabilities such as adversarial attacks, data poisoning, and model theft, and then practice defense strategies through guided labs. By the end of the course, you will be able to secure AI pipelines, strengthen deployment environments, and implement monitoring and governance frameworks that ensure responsible AI use. This course is ideal for AI engineers, data scientists, cybersecurity professionals, and students aspiring to specialize in AI security. While prior knowledge of Python and basic machine learning concepts is recommended, all core security techniques will be taught step by step. Do not just build smarter AI. Build safer AI. Enroll now to gain the expertise needed to protect tomorrow’s intelligent systems,
Taught by
Edureka