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Skilled Responsible Artificial Intelligence Hacker

Course Length: 16 hours.

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Learn how AI systems can be attacked—and how to protect them.

This practical, tactical program teaches participants how AI systems can be compromised and how to strengthen their security posture. Using specialized AI software, the course demonstrates vulnerabilities, adversarial techniques, and defensive controls. Learners develop the ability to design AI security strategies, manage AI-related incidents, apply maturity-based controls, and use Microsoft tools to mitigate risks. The program delivers a comprehensive view of securing AI from design to operation.

Skilled Responsible AI Hacker

Audience

  • Technology, cybersecurity, information security, compliance, and risk professionals
  • AI project leaders and solution architects
  • Technology governance teams
  • Enterprise and cloud architects

Objectives

  • Understand how "Ethical Hacking" principles apply to AI
  • Learn security fundamentals for AI systems
  • Design tactical and technical strategies for AI security
  • Manage identities, access, and regulatory compliance in AI solutions
  • Identify security controls across maturity levels
  • Structure an AI Security Chapter
  • Explore market tools for AI security
  • Evaluate risks and establish security metrics
  • Understand secure AI architectures and security planning

Course Content

  • Security principles applied to AI environments
  • Emerging risks in AI solutions
  • Security as an enabler of trust

Discussion: Identifying real initial risks

  • Identity and access management in AI solutions
  • Integration with access policies
  • Regulatory requirements and compliance
  • Overview of identity management tools
  • Overview of the security incident lifecycle phases
  • Detection, response, recovery, and learning
  • Requirements for simulating attack and defense scenarios

Exercise: Defining an AI security incident management process

  • Key components of a Security Chapter
  • Roles and responsibilities in AI security
  • Alignment with AI governance practices
  • Discussion of a Security Chapter example
  • Microsoft Purview: data governance and classification
  • Microsoft Defender: protection of AI environments
  • Security Copilot: incident response automation
  • Overview of Purview and Defender tools
  • Designing secure AI architectures
  • Solution types and scenarios: Buy (SaaS), Extend & Build (PaaS / IaaS)
  • Security controls by maturity level
  • Discussion of security posture vs. architecture
  • What is ethical hacking applied to AI?
  • Differences from traditional hacking
  • Key risks in AI systems (models, data, pipelines)
  • OWASP AI Security & Privacy Guide
  • MITRE ATLAS (Adversarial Threat Landscape for AI Systems)
  • NIST AI Risk Management Framework
  • How these frameworks integrate into testing methodologies
  • Phase 1: Reconnaissance and Data Collection – Identification of models and datasets
  • Phase 2: Analysis and Enumeration – Evaluation of architecture and weaknesses
  • Phase 3: Exploitation (Adversarial Attacks): Evasion, Poisoning, Model Extraction
  • Phase 4: Post-Exploitation and Reporting – Impact assessment, mitigation, and documentation of findings
  • Accountability in AI testing
  • Applicable regulations (GDPR, AI Act)
  • Best practices for secure testing

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