CERT Leadership in AI for Cybersecurity Application Workshop

The Leadership in AI for Cybersecurity Workshop is the capstone course for the CERT Leadership in AI for Cybersecurity Professional Certificate Program. Throughout the program, students gain skills and knowledge in AI fundamentals; this workshop serves as an opportunity to both exercise these skills and demonstrate proficiency in the course subject matter.

This two-day immersive, instructor-led workshop guides participants through an end-to-end AI project using a cybersecurity dataset pertaining to vulnerabilities found in JavaScript source code functions on public GitHub repositories. The dataset contains approximately 12,000 records, each representing a source code function with a label that indicates whether it contains a security vulnerability and code metrics that were obtained from static analysis tools.

Students will build an end-to-end AI solution using Python, consider how the solution might be deployed to realize value for their organization, and present their work to the class for feedback. Students will work both individually and in small teams on a capstone project, mirroring the types of AI-enabled cybersecurity problems encountered in real-world environments.

This course is intended for:

• Cybersecurity Analysts
• Data Scientists, Government Analysts
• Software Developers
• Software Engineers
• Technical Leaders

• Describe the breadth of topics and key concepts in AI for cybersecurity and cybersecurity for AI.
• Differentiate between AI-for-cybersecurity and cybersecurity-for-AI problem spaces, including typical risks, stakeholders, and solution approaches.
• Identify and explain the core tasks that technical experts perform when formulating cybersecurity AI use cases, including defining the problem, success criteria, constraints, and operational context.
• Summarize the technical work involved in data development, analysis methods, models, and supporting infrastructure for cybersecurity AI solutions.
• Explain the lifecycle activities required to deploy, monitor, and maintain cybersecurity AI solutions, including performance, drift, governance, and operational integration considerations.
• Describe and explain a complex cybersecurity AI problem and proposed solution clearly and persuasively to executive stakeholders and tailor the message to business risk, impact, and decision needs.

• AI for cybersecurity
• Cybersecurity for AI
• Formulating a good use case
• Analysis, modeling, and solution development
• Solution deployment and maintenance
• Communicating results to management stakeholders

• Short lectures and demonstrations
• Hands-on Python exercises
• Team-based capstone project
• Capstone presentations and feedback

This workshop is designed as the capstone course for the CERT Leadership in AI for Cybersecurity Professional Certificate Program. Participants are expected to have completed the following eLearning courses before participating in the Leadership in AI for Cybersecurity Application Workshop. Please allow adequate time to complete the prerequisite courses.

• Leading in AI for Cybersecurity (eLearning)*--estimated learning time: 11 hours
• Fundamentals of Statistics Applied to Cybersecurity (eLearning)**--estimated learning time: 5 hours
• Effective Communications of Technical Concepts (eLearning)--estimated learning time: 5 hours

*The Leading in AI for Cybersecurity eLearning prerequisite is waived for holders of the CERT AI for Cybersecurity Professional Certificate.

**The Fundamentals of Statistics Applied to Cybersecurity eLearning prerequisite is waived for holders of the CERT Applied Data Science for Cybersecurity Professional Certificate.

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