SEC536: Adversarial AI - Penetration Testing AI Systems


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Contact UsAttack your organization's AI before an adversary does by building prompt-injection, jailbreak, and adversarial-ML attack chains against LLM apps, RAG systems, and agents.
Construct prompt-injection and jailbreak sequences against LLM apps, RAG systems, and agents, not just single-shot prompts.
Execute evasion, poisoning, extraction, and inference attacks, and test agent tool permissions for confused-deputy and escalation paths.
Automate attacks in Python with frameworks like PyRIT, Garak, or Promptfoo, and write reproducible reports engineering teams can close.
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In this role, you will work to find 0-days (unknown vulnerabilities) in a wide range of applications and devices used by organizations and consumers. Find vulnerabilities before the adversaries!
Explore learning pathIn this fairly recent job position, you have a keen understanding of both how cybersecurity defenses (“Blue Team”) work and how adversaries operate (“Red Team”). During your day-today activities, you will organize and automate emulation of adversary techniques, highlight possible new log sources and use cases that help increase the detection coverage of the SOC, and propose security controls to improve resilience against the techniques. You will also work to help coordinate effective communication between traditional defensive and offensive roles.
Explore learning pathMonitor and analyze activity across cloud environments, proactively detect and assess threats, and implement preventive controls and targeted defenses to protect critical business systems and data.
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