About The Training

In an era where AI is reshaping industries and daily life, the security of AI systems has never been more critical. This comprehensive training program delves into the fascinating world of AI, providing a robust understanding of how these advanced technologies operate and how their inherent vulnerabilities can be identified and mitigated.

Identifying and mitigating vulnerabilities in AI applications is a critical aspect of ensuring their security and reliability. AI systems can be susceptible to a range of attack vectors, including adversarial attacks where malicious inputs are designed to deceive the AI, and data poisoning, where the training data is manipulated to produce inaccurate models. Other vulnerabilities include model inversion, which allows attackers to infer sensitive information from the AI model, and algorithmic biases that can lead to unfair or unethical outcomes. The new age of GenAI brings its own vulnerabilities on the table such as Prompt Injection and jailbreak attacks that target AI systems to perform unintended actions.

By examining real-world case studies and engaging in hands-on exercises, participants will learn how these vulnerabilities manifest and the impact they can have on AI systems. They will also explore best practices and defense mechanisms to safeguard AI applications. This comprehensive approach ensures that participants are equipped not only to identify potential threats but also to implement effective strategies to protect AI systems in an ever-evolving digital landscape.

Basic - Intermediate 

Part 1: Understanding how AI works
This section aimed towards understanding how AI applications are built and deployed. Making sense of underlying algorithms and their use cases. Hands-on model-building exercises will strengthen our intuition behind the algorithms and prepare us to be introduced to AI Security vulnerabilities in Part 2.

• Foundations of AI:
• Basic terminologies, techniques, and introduction to frameworks to get us started with learning them
• Neural Networks: Understanding how deep learning works
• Neural network for classification: spam filter, WAF, and much more
• Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN): to understand how the following works
• Object detection
• Image classification
• Face recognition
• GenAI application: aah! this is what the hype is about
• The LLM architecture: Transformers and Attention
• RAG: Systems that perform Q&A on user documents
• Multimodal models: Understanding how a chatbot sees Images
• Knowing how everything is deployed in various applications: end-to-end pipeline, MLOps, etc
   

Part 2:
This section explores potential loopholes in AI applications. Lab exercises will help us deeply understand AI security vulnerabilities. Thus helping us to plan and implement effective mitigation strategies for AI-specific vulnerabilities.

• Exploring vulnerabilities in AI applications and *real-world examples of the same
• Adversarial Learning attack
• Fooling Image classifiers and object detection systems
• Generating Adversarial patches to target the physical domain
• Fooling the face recognition systems
• Model Stealing attack
• Extracting models
• Model Skewing and Data poisoning: Hacking our way through feedback loops to control the information that trains the AI models
• Prompt injection and Jailbreak attacks: Knowing how an attacker can own the LLMs and get them to do (predict) whatever you want
• Attacking The RAG
• Knowing what could go wrong with systems like your company's internal chatbot
• Insecure serialization: Understanding how malicious actors can inject executable code in publicly distributed ML models.
• Issues with MLOps frameworks
• Exploring existing security frameworks for AI: MITRE and OWASP

• Laptop with 8GB+ RAM
• 20 GB space
• Any flavor of Linux is preferred over Windows
• A Gmail account to run code on google colab
• Open mind made up for some intense mathematics

• Basic knowledge of Python and Machine Learning is good to have but not required
• Basic of Linux and Virtualbox

• Cyber Security professionals responsible for the security of AI systems
• Developers and engineers who are looking forward to design, implement, and maintain secure AI Applications
• Students with a Computer Science background and a taste for AI and infosec
• AI enthusiasts and professionals

• Understanding the fundamentals of AI development
• Hands-on practice in Specially crafted labs for ML and Infosec enthusiasts
• Intuitive understanding of AI algorithms
• Actionable understanding of AI vulnerabilities and how to mitigate them
• Lab material and references for post-training practice

• Course slides and notes
• Precooked lab exercises to practice AI development and security
• Post-training reference material

• Being an AI expert in 2 days
• Heavy mathematical background of AI algorithms concepts