SEC595: Applied Data Science and AI/Machine Learning for Cybersecurity Professionals


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Embedding safeguards into models, data pipelines, and agentic workflows to prevent adversarial manipulation, data leakage, and unintended behaviors before they can impact the business.
Integrating AI-enabled workflows across SOC operations and equipping teams to accelerate defensive capabilities without losing visibility, control, or alignment with established security practices.
Driving research, compliance, and policy readiness to ensure AI is adopted securely, ethically, and at scale across business and technical environments.
SEC545 gives you the practical skills to design, secure, and defend GenAI applications by understanding real risks, applying proven security controls across RAG, agents, and MLOps workflows, and developing threat models and defenses that strengthen your organisation's AI systems.

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AI is transforming cybersecurity roles faster than organizations can adapt. From incident response to governance, today’s defenders need new skills, and entirely new job functions are emerging. These roles demand fluency in AI-driven threats, secure system design, and policy leadership. Whether you're planning your own path or shaping a team, now is the time to understand what the future requires.
This talk will look at how attackers are actually making use of artificial intelligence to attack organizations through social engineering attacks, and what organizations can do to try and actually address these threats.
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The SANS Draft Critical AI Security Guidelines v1.1 outlines how enterprises can implement AI securely and effectively using a risk-based approach.
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This webcast is built on insights from one of our most anticipated cybersecurity surveys of the year—offering an in-depth look at how the community is adopting, adapting to, and defending against artificial intelligence in all its forms.
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