Securing AI Systems is a hands-on course designed to help you safeguard machine learning applications against real-world threats. You will explore vulnerabilities such as adversarial attacks, data poisoning, and model theft, and then practice defense strategies through guided labs.
Securing AI Systems
Securing AI Systems
This course is part of AI Security Specialization
Instructor: Edureka
Access provided by Mirpur University of Science and Technology (MUST)
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Intermediate level
Recommended experience
9 hours to complete
Flexible schedule
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What you'll learn
Identify AI security concepts, attack types, and mitigation strategies.
Implement defenses, red-team simulations, and SOC/cloud/hardware security measures.
Evaluate weaknesses, assess defense effectiveness, and review incident response.
Design end-to-end secure AI systems and integrated security workflows.
Skills you'll gain
- Continuous Monitoring
- Incident Response
- Threat Modeling
- Vulnerability Assessments
- Information Systems Security
- Application Security
- Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML)
- Security Strategy
- Artificial Intelligence
- Security Controls
- Cybersecurity
- MLOps (Machine Learning Operations)
- Machine Learning
- Identity and Access Management
- Penetration Testing
- Threat Detection
- Security Engineering
- Responsible AI
- Cloud Security
- Hardening
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