We are thrilled to announce the release of our latest on-demand course: Practical AI Security: Attacks, Defenses, and Applications.
Over the past year, we’ve been researching modern AI frameworks, exploring real attack paths, and testing hands-on defensive strategies. Those insights shaped a curriculum that has already been battle-tested and well-received by security teams in our live sessions, and now we’re bringing that same practical approach to our on-demand academy.
Our goal was simple: create a course that gives you the skills to navigate and secure the AI systems you’ll face tomorrow, while also helping you work faster and more efficiently through smarter workflows.
We’ve organized the program into three focused pillars – Applications, Attacks, and Defenses – for complete coverage of the modern AI stack.
Here is a look at what you’ll be doing:
1. Applications
You start by building. You can’t secure what you don’t understand, so we begin with a quick foundation to make sure you’re comfortable with how modern LLMs and pipelines work. From there, you move straight into hands-on development with the Transformers library, practical application building, and advanced pipelines using RAG, LangChain, LlamaIndex, and vector databases. We also dive deep into AI Agents and MCP Servers so you can see how real AI workflows and integration layers are built.
2. Attacks
This is where our recent research comes in. We move past basic prompt injection and into the vulnerabilities we’re seeing right now. You’ll reverse engineer MCP servers, exploit complex agent logic, perform prompt injection and multimodal attacks, and uncover flaws in “vibe-coded” (AI-generated) applications.
It’s a full crash course in Red Teaming the modern AI stack.
3. Defenses
Finally, we focus on securing what you built. We use the Google Secure AI Framework (SAIF) for strategic guidance, then apply practical techniques to harden code, secure deployed agents, and strengthen AI pipelines across the 14 SAIF risk categories.
You’ll also learn how to use tools like Fabric AI to speed up your own workflow through log parsing, threat intel support, knowledge extraction, and other automated tasks.
Get Certified
This course includes a voucher for the Certified AI Security Researcher (CAISR) exam, so you can prove you have the hands-on skills to back up the knowledge.
Join Us Today
To say thanks to our early adopters, if you enroll today you’ll get a discounted price and 15 months of access (instead of the usual 12) to all the materials and future updates.
Check out the full syllabus and get started here: https://academy.8ksec.io/course/practical-ai-security
