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


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Course material is geared for cyber security professionals with hands-on experience
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Defend GenAI and LLMs at every stage with SEC411’s hands-on, real-world AI security labs. Always current. Always hands-on. Always relevant.
SEC411 is a living, practitioner-focused AI security course for cybersecurity professionals entering GenAI and LLM defense. No prior AI experience required.


Seth, SANS Faculty Fellow and author of SEC411, LDR414, and SEC511, combines cutting-edge consulting and education to equip defenders worldwide. Founder of Context Security and GSE #28, he brings clarity, humor, and purpose to cybersecurity training.
Read more about Seth MisenarExplore the course syllabus below to view the full range of topics covered in SEC411: AI Security Principles and Practices: GenAI and LLM Defense.
Build essential AI literacy for security professionals. Learn how LLMs operate, identify AI-specific attack surfaces, and apply the OWASP Top 10 for LLMs. This foundation bridges traditional security experience to AI threats with hands-on exploration of tokenization security.
Secure AI systems from training to runtime. Implement practical defenses for training pipelines, inference environments, and RAG systems. Master input and output filtering, guardrail implementation, and RAG-specific security controls through progressive attack and defense challenges.
Integrate AI security into enterprise architecture and protect autonomous systems. Deploy secure LLM applications, implement robust API security, connect AI monitoring with SOC operations, and address new threats in agentic systems and reasoning models using production-ready strategies.
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