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Are you ready to lead your organization into the future of cybersecurity while safeguarding privacy in an increasingly AI-driven world? This primer provides an essential foundation in generative AI, exploring its transformative potential and the specific cybersecurity and privacy risks it introduces. Learn to embrace AI’s capabilities while maintaining trust, compliance, and security in your organization.
What You'll Learn:
- Safeguard Organizational Privacy: This primer will help you understand the privacy implications of AI systems and the risks posed by data fusion across platforms.
- Address Emerging AI-Specific Threats: Develop a clear understanding of vulnerabilities like prompt injection, deepfakes, AI-enhanced phishing, and adversarial text in AI deployments.
- Build Confidence in AI Adoption: Gain the foundational tools and techniques to implement secure environments for AI development and responsible usage.
Who Is This Course For?
- Cybersecurity and Privacy Leaders: Seeking a primer to harness AI while preserving organizational integrity.
- IT Professionals: Interested in responsibly implementing AI within technical infrastructures.
Business Executives: Looking for a foundational understanding of AI integration without compromising compliance or ethics.
- Policy Makers: Aspiring to shape legislation around AI and privacy with a deep technical primer.
Why Take This Course?
Generative AI offers unmatched opportunities to enhance security and privacy, but it also brings novel challenges. From adversarial risks to complex data privacy concerns, leaders need a clear and concise primer to navigate these complexities effectively.
This course provides the essential knowledge and skills to balance innovation with protection. By the end, you’ll be empowered to lead AI initiatives that drive progress while mitigating the unique cybersecurity risks posed by generative AI. With this primer, you’ll confidently lay the groundwork for safe and responsible AI adoption.
What's included
4 videos1 reading1 assignment
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4 videos•Total 26 minutes
Introduction•1 minute
Is Our Data at Risk if We Upload it to Generative AI?•10 minutes
Filtering a Privacy Policy or Terms and Conditions with ChatGPT•7 minutes
A Personal Cybersecurity Tabletop•8 minutes
1 reading•Total 1 minute
Learning More & Staying Connected•1 minute
1 assignment•Total 30 minutes
Conducting a Personal Cybersecurity Tabletop•30 minutes
Generative AI Security & Prompting
Module 2•27 minutes to complete
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4 videos
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4 videos•Total 27 minutes
Attacks on Your Prompts•1 minute
Prompt Injection Attacks•12 minutes
Adversarial Text & Imagery•6 minutes
Self-consistency and Quotation to Help Detect Issues •8 minutes
Misinformation & Deepfakes
Module 3•1 hour to complete
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4 videos2 readings1 assignment
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4 videos•Total 11 minutes
Intro to Deepfakes•1 minute
Seeing is No Longer Believing•2 minutes
A Deepfake of Myself Teaching About the Risks of Deepfakes•3 minutes
Wrapping Up on Deepfakes•5 minutes
2 readings•Total 11 minutes
The Last Video Was Not Me•1 minute
How I Deepfaked Myself•10 minutes
1 assignment•Total 30 minutes
Protecting Against Deepfakes•30 minutes
Hyper-Personalization, Persuasion, & Phishing
Module 4•1 hour to complete
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4 videos1 assignment
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4 videos•Total 28 minutes
Personal Privacy in a World with Generative AI•3 minutes
Hyper-Personalization & Persuasion•11 minutes
Scaling Up Hyper-Personalization•7 minutes
Hyper-Personalization & Phishing•7 minutes
1 assignment•Total 30 minutes
Hyper-Personalize for Awareness•30 minutes
Generative AI Privacy & Security: A Perspective for Businesses & Organizations
Module 5•1 hour to complete
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3 videos1 reading
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3 videos•Total 33 minutes
Information Access Control•16 minutes
Accidental Information Leakage•7 minutes
Best Practices for Adoption with Respect to Privacy•11 minutes
1 reading•Total 10 minutes
Vanderbilt's Open Source Platform for Enterprise Chat•10 minutes
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I thought this was a fabulous course and I learned some things about GenAI that I hadn't previously considered. It was a wise investment of my time and attention -- thank you, Jules!
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