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Generative AI for Security Fundamentals

Edureka via Coursera

Overview

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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.

Syllabus

  • Introduction to AI
    • Discover how AI is transforming cybersecurity by improving threat detection, response, and defense strategies. Learn the fundamentals of AI, Generative AI, and Large Language Models (LLMs), and explore their applications in real-world cybersecurity scenarios. Apply insights from AI to enhance malware detection, secure interactions, and understand potential risks while building a strong foundation in AI-powered security practices.
  • Generative AI Security Fundamentals
    • Learn how AI enhances cybersecurity by enabling secure interactions with Generative AI and LLMs. Explore prompt engineering techniques to mitigate risks, design safe AI workflows, and evaluate AI outputs for threats. Gain practical skills to apply AI in threat detection, security automation, and risk assessment while ensuring ethical and resilient AI usage.
  • Security in AI System Architectures
    • Explore how AI system architectures can be secured to protect against cyber threats and adversarial attacks. Learn to identify vulnerabilities in AI components, implement best practices for system protection, and defend networks. Gain hands-on experience with adversarial attack simulations, vulnerability assessments, threat modeling, and AI security strategies to ensure resilient and robust AI-driven systems.
  • Course Wrap-Up and Assessment
    • This module is designed to assess an individual on the various concepts and teachings covered in this course. Evaluate your knowledge with a comprehensive graded quiz.

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