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

What You’ll Learn

• Master AI security fundamentals including tokenization, attack surface analysis, and OWASP Top 10 for LLMs.
• Exploit and defend against prompt injection, jailbreaking, RAG manipulation, MCP security, and context hijacking across 125+ hands-on lab tasks.
• Implement production-ready defenses for inference runtime, system prompts, and RAG applications.
• Secure agentic workflows, autonomous systems, and reasoning models against manipulation and misuse.
• Apply OWASP Top 10 for LLMs, MITRE ATLAS, and NIST AI RMF in real security operations scenarios.
• Bridge traditional cybersecurity skills to AI-specific requirements and SOC integration.
• Design defense-in-depth strategies that balance security and usability across the AI lifecycle.
• Protect Model Context Protocol (MCP) environments by identifying attack surfaces and enforcing controls.
• Master prompt-injection techniques from direct instruction attacks and encoding-based obfuscation to context-window manipulation and social-engineering.
• Build a vendor-neutral detection and incident-response capability spanning prompt, retrieval, tool, and memory-based attacks, grounded in OWASP's Agentic Top 10 threat categories including Tool Misuse and Memory Poisoning.
• Critically evaluate Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 safety disclosures and government-driven access changes, translating a fast-moving capability and access-governance story into concrete defensive action.

Business Takeaways

• Close critical skill gaps quickly with progressive learning paths building on existing expertise.
• Maximize training ROI with a living curriculum that adds new modules and labs throughout 4-month access.
• Apply learning immediately with Docker-based hands-on labs deployable in real production environments.
• Accelerate team readiness with gamified labs and an integrated Learning Assistant for faster competency.
• Reduce deployment risk with comprehensive OWASP Top 10 for LLMs and production security controls coverage.
• Support compliance with NIST AI RMF, EU AI Act, and other standards connected to existing security ops.
• Future-proof security capabilities spanning current and emerging AI threats with continuous curriculum updates.
• Reduce response gaps with a unified monitoring and incident-response framework for the major ways untrusted content reaches AI systems.
• Stay ahead of the frontier: SEC411's living curriculum keeps your team current on capability and access shifts like Anthropic's Fable 5/Mythos 5, not months after the fact.