Question 1

LDR520: Emerging Trends for Cyber Leaders: AI and Cloud

Accepted Answer

Advanced Skill Level | 5 Days (Instructor-Led) | 30 Hours | 13 Hands-on Labs LDR520 prepares leaders to manage the challenges that come with AI adoption, cloud transformation, and emerging cryptographic technology. The course builds practical capability in AI governance, threat defense, and cloud security foundations using real frameworks and decision models leaders can apply immediately. It also prepares leaders for post-quantum cryptography and enterprise modernization, so they can address today’s risks while getting ahead of what comes next.

Question 2

SEC411: AI Security Principles and Practices: GenAI and LLM Defense

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Intermediate Skill Level | 14 Hours (Self-Paced) | 2 Hands-On Lab(s)
Defend GenAI and LLMs at every stage with SEC411’s hands-on, real-world AI security labs. Always current. Always hands-on. Always relevant.

Question 3

SEC495: Leveraging LLMs: Building & Securing RAG, Contextual RAG, and Agentic RAG

Accepted Answer

Essential Skill Level | 7 Hours (Self-Paced) 
Is your organization seeking to create useful AI solutions? Has your organization struggled to get the project off the ground? SEC495 will supercharge your efforts to build a Large Language Model (LLM) based solution for internal and customer facing applications. More importantly, this fully hands-on class walks you through how to build effective Retrieval Augmented Generation solutions (RAG) that leverage LLMs while also protecting against prompt injection and implementing access controls based on information sensitivity levels.

Question 4

SEC535: Offensive AI - Attack Tools and Techniques

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Intermediate Skill Level | 3 Days (Instructor-Led) | 18 Hours (Self-Paced) | 14 Hands-On Lab(s)
Attackers are already using AI to push past traditional defenses. They automate reconnaissance, craft convincing social engineering campaigns, and even generate custom malware designed to bypass security controls. This course is built for security professionals who need to understand how offensive teams apply AI at every stage of an attack. Over three days, you’ll examine the same tools and techniques adversaries use to map networks, manipulate human targets, and build evasive payloads. Through labs based on real-world scenarios, you’ll see firsthand how these tactics unfold and learn to anticipate them. By studying offensive AI through the eyes of the attacker, you will build the insight and hands-on experience needed to outpace these evolving threats and protect what matters most when it counts.

Question 5

SEC545: GenAI and LLM Application Security

Accepted Answer

Advanced Skill Level | 5 Days (Instructor-Led) | 30 Hours (Self-Paced) | 20 Hands-On Lab(s) SEC545 explores GenAI security across the full lifecycle. Students learn to build, secure, and deploy GenAI applications using tools like LangChain, agents, and cloud platforms such as AWS Bedrock, then go deeper into securing agents and MCP, applying controls across MLOps workflows, performing structured threat modeling with MAESTRO, and defending real AI infrastructure through hands-on exercises.

Question 6

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

Accepted Answer

Advanced Skill Level | 6 Days (Instructor-Led) | 36 Hours (Self-Paced) | 30 Hands-On Lab(s) 
SEC595 provides students with a crash-course introduction to practical data science, statistics, probability, machine learning, and AI. The course is structured as a series of short discussions with extensive hands-on labs that help students to develop useful intuitive understandings of how these concepts relate and can be used to solve real-world problems. The best analogy is that we are using an apprenticeship approach to bring you from beginner to journeyman in AI and related fields. If you've never done anything with data science or machine learning but want to use these AI techniques, this is definitely the course for you!

Question 7

SEC598: AI and Security Automation for Red, Blue, and Purple Teams

Accepted Answer

Intermediate Skill Level | 6 Days (Instructor-Led) | 36 Hours (Self-Paced) | 25 Hands-On Lab(s) 
SEC598: AI and Security Automation for Red, Blue, and Purple Teams empowers you to elevate your security program across offensive and defensive domains. Whether you're automating adversary emulation campaigns, building intelligent response workflows, or engineering detection-as-code pipelines, this course teaches you to harness AI-driven automation to outpace modern threats.

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