This program equips cybersecurity professionals, IT teams, and business leaders with foundational knowledge and practical skills to secure AI-driven systems using Generative AI and Large Language Models (LLMs). You’ll start by understanding AI’s role in cybersecurity, exploring traditional security methods, LLM architectures, and how GenAI applications are transforming threat detection and defense mechanisms.

Generative AI for Security Fundamentals
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Generative AI for Security Fundamentals
This course is part of AI Security Specialization

Instructor: Edureka
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What you'll learn
Describe core concepts of AI, Generative AI, and LLMs within modern cybersecurity.
Explain security implications and key risks of using Generative AI and LLMs in enterprises.
Apply prompt engineering and secure techniques to reduce prompt injection and adversarial threats.
Evaluate AI architectures and enforce best practices to protect models, data pipelines, and defenses.
Skills you'll gain
- Security Strategy
- Cyber Attacks
- Cybersecurity
- Natural Language Processing
- Incident Response
- Security Awareness
- IT Security Architecture
- Security Management
- Vulnerability Assessments
- Responsible AI
- Enterprise Security
- Threat Detection
- Cyber Security Strategy
- Information Systems Security
- Distributed Denial-Of-Service (DDoS) Attacks
- AI Security
- Cloud Security
- Threat Modeling
- Large Language Modeling
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