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Mastering AI-Driven Cybersecurity Threat Detection is designed for professionals who demand flexibility, clarity, and career-transforming outcomes. This is not a theoretical overview or generic tutorial. This is a precision-crafted, deeply practical learning experience that equips you with real-world skills to detect, analyse, and neutralise advanced cyber threats using the most effective AI-driven methodologies in use today. Self-Paced Learning with Immediate Online Access
From the moment you enrol, you gain entry to a comprehensive library of structured, hands-on modules. There are no waiting periods, no gatekeeping of content. You begin exactly when you're ready. The course is entirely self-paced, allowing you to progress at a speed that suits your schedule, workload, and learning style. Whether you're dedicating 30 minutes a day or completing multiple modules in one focused session, the structure supports your rhythm. No Fixed Dates. No Time Pressure. Total Flexibility.
This is an on-demand experience. There are no live sessions, fixed deadlines, or scheduled lectures to attend. You learn on your own timeline. The entire program is built for integration into busy professional lives. Whether you're based in Sydney, London, Toronto, or Lagos, the content is available whenever you need it, day or night. Accelerated Results in 6–8 Weeks (Many Finish Faster)
A dedicated learner typically completes the course in 6 to 8 weeks while balancing full-time responsibilities. However, many professionals report applying key threat detection techniques within the first 72 hours of starting. The curriculum is designed for rapid skill acquisition, with every module engineered to deliver immediate tactical value. You're not just learning theory-you're building actionable expertise that starts paying dividends from Day One. Lifetime Access with Free Future Updates Forever
Once you enrol, you own this course for life. Technology evolves, threats change, and AI models advance. That’s why every update to the curriculum, every new module added, and every refinement to existing content is delivered to you automatically at no extra cost. This is not a one-time snapshot. It's a living, evolving resource that grows with the field, ensuring your skills remain current for years to come. Accessible Anywhere, Anytime, on Any Device
Whether you're on a desktop at the office, a tablet during travel, or your smartphone between meetings, the course platform is fully responsive and mobile-friendly. You can pick up exactly where you left off, regardless of device. Our 24/7 global access ensures uninterrupted progress, with no region-based restrictions or login issues. Your learning journey goes where you go. Direct Instructor Support and Expert Guidance
You are not learning in isolation. Throughout the course, you have access to expert-led support channels. Have a technical question? Encounter a challenge in model implementation? Our team of cybersecurity practitioners and AI engineers provide timely, detailed responses to help you overcome obstacles quickly. This is not an automated chatbot system. Real humans, with real experience, guide your development. Receive a Globally Recognised Certificate of Completion
Upon finishing the course, you earn a Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service. This is not a generic participation badge. It is a verified credential that signals mastery of AI-driven threat detection to employers, clients, and peers. The Art of Service is trusted by thousands of professionals worldwide and recognised across industries for delivering high-integrity, skills-based certifications. Your certificate includes a unique identifier for verification and can be shared directly on LinkedIn, in job applications, or on your personal website. Transparent Pricing. No Hidden Fees. Ever.
What you see is exactly what you pay. There are no surprise charges, no subscription traps, and no hidden upsells. The price covers lifetime access, all content, future updates, mobile compatibility, and the official certificate. That’s it. We believe in fairness, clarity, and respect for your investment. Secure Payment with Visa, Mastercard, and PayPal
We accept all major payment methods, including Visa, Mastercard, and PayPal. Our payment process is encrypted and compliant with global security standards, ensuring your transaction is safe and seamless. No special accounts, no downloads, no hassle. Enrol in minutes, not hours. 100% Money-Back Guarantee: Satisfied or Refunded
We are so confident in the value of this course that we offer a complete money-back guarantee. If you find the content does not meet your expectations, or if you do not gain tangible skills you can apply immediately, simply request a refund. There are no questions, no delays, no friction. We remove the risk so you can focus on your growth. Clear Access Delivery Process After Enrolment
After you complete your enrolment, you will receive a confirmation email acknowledging your registration. Shortly after, a separate email will be sent with your secure access details and instructions for entering the course platform. This ensures a smooth onboarding process and gives our team time to verify your information and prepare your learning environment. Please allow up to 24 hours for access delivery, though it often arrives much sooner. There is no need to wait online-once your materials are ready, you’ll be notified promptly. “Will This Work for Me?” – We’ve Thought of Everything
Whether you’re a network security analyst, SOC team member, IT manager, systems administrator, or a career switcher entering cybersecurity, this course is built to work for you. The content is structured to meet you at your current level and guide you to mastery. No prior AI or machine learning expertise is required-we start with the essentials and build upward with clarity and precision. This works even if: You’ve never coded before, you’re not a data scientist, you’re working with legacy systems, or your organisation hasn’t yet adopted AI tools. The techniques taught are designed for real-world constraints and practical deployment, not ideal lab environments. You’ll learn how to integrate AI threat detection into existing workflows, improve current monitoring systems, and generate alerts with higher accuracy and lower false positives. Role-specific results you can expect: - As a SOC analyst, you’ll identify previously missed anomalies in log data using trained detection models.
- As a security architect, you’ll design AI-augmented monitoring pipelines that scale with your infrastructure.
- As a CISO, you’ll gain a strategic understanding of how AI reduces detection latency and improves incident response ROI.
- As a consultant, you’ll deliver faster threat assessments using AI-powered pattern recognition tools.
Social Proof: Real Professionals, Real Results - “I implemented the anomaly detection framework from Module 5 into our SIEM system and reduced false positives by 68% in two weeks.” – Maria T, Senior Security Engineer, Germany
- “After completing this course, I was promoted to Lead Threat Analyst. The Certificate of Completion gave me credibility during the interview.” – James L, UK
- “I had zero AI background. Within a month, I built an automated phishing detection script using the techniques taught. My team now uses it daily.” – Ahmed R, IT Manager, UAE
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This course reverses the traditional risk of online learning. You don’t pay and hope it works. You gain lifetime access, a recognised certificate, real projects, and a full refund guarantee if it doesn’t deliver. Every element is designed to eliminate doubt, increase trust, and amplify your professional momentum. You're not just buying a course. You're investing in a career accelerator with built-in safeguards and proven outcomes.
EXTENSIVE & DETAILED COURSE CURRICULUM
Module 1: Foundations of AI-Driven Cybersecurity - Understanding the modern threat landscape and evolving attack vectors
- The limitations of traditional rule-based detection systems
- Why AI and machine learning are transforming cybersecurity
- Core principles of supervised and unsupervised learning in security
- Defining threat detection, anomaly detection, and behavioural analytics
- Overview of common cybersecurity frameworks and standards
- Integrating AI within NIST, ISO 27001, and MITRE ATT&CK
- The role of data in AI-powered security: quality, sources, and preparation
- Introduction to logs, events, and telemetry data formats
- Security use cases best suited for AI augmentation
- Understanding false positives and false negatives in detection systems
- Measuring detection accuracy, recall, and precision
- Practical examples of AI reducing detection time
- Building a business case for AI integration in your security team
- Assessing organisational readiness for AI adoption
Module 2: Core AI and Machine Learning Concepts for Security - Understanding algorithms without coding: a non-technical primer
- Supervised learning for known threat classification
- Unsupervised learning for anomaly detection in network traffic
- Semi-supervised models for hybrid threat environments
- Clustering techniques: K-means and DBSCAN in log analysis
- Dimensionality reduction with PCA for high-volume data
- Decision trees and random forests for alert triage
- Neural networks: basics and applications in threat detection
- Introduction to deep learning for sequence-based attacks
- Understanding overfitting and underfitting in security models
- Feature selection and engineering for security datasets
- Normalisation and scaling of security data
- Training, validation, and test datasets in practice
- Evaluating model performance with confusion matrices
- ROC curves and AUC scores for threshold tuning
Module 3: Data Preparation and Feature Engineering for Threat Detection - Data collection strategies from firewalls, IDS, and endpoints
- Aggregating logs from Syslog, Windows Event Logs, and SIEMs
- Handling structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data
- Time-series analysis in security event data
- Feature extraction from network flow data (NetFlow, sFlow)
- Creating behavioural baselines for users and devices
- Sessionisation of event streams for pattern detection
- Encoding categorical variables in security logs
- Handling missing data and outliers in telemetry
- Timestamp alignment and synchronisation across systems
- Creating derived features: frequency, duration, recurrence
- Hashing and anonymisation for privacy-preserving analysis
- Building custom feature sets for phishing, ransomware, and lateral movement
- Using domain knowledge to guide feature creation
- Validating feature relevance with correlation analysis
Module 4: Anomaly Detection Systems Using Machine Learning - Defining normal vs anomalous behaviour in enterprise networks
- Statistical anomaly detection with Gaussian models
- Using Isolation Forests for rare event detection
- Local Outlier Factor (LOF) for contextual anomaly identification
- One-class SVM for detecting unknown threats
- Autoencoders for reconstructing normal patterns and flagging deviations
- Deploying anomaly detection in user and entity behaviour analytics (UEBA)
- Detecting brute force attacks through login pattern deviations
- Spotting data exfiltration using volume and timing anomalies
- Identifying insider threats through behavioural shifts
- Tuning sensitivity to balance precision and recall
- Visualising anomaly scores over time for operational clarity
- Integrating anomaly alerts into existing ticketing systems
- Avoiding alert fatigue with intelligent prioritisation
- Validating anomaly findings with forensic investigation
Module 5: AI Models for Malware and Ransomware Detection - Static analysis of malware using file metadata and headers
- Dynamic analysis through sandboxed execution traces
- Extracting features from PE files and binaries
- Training classifiers to distinguish benign from malicious software
- Using APIs to scan files with AI-enhanced engines
- Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) networks for sequence-based malware
- Detecting polymorphic and metamorphic malware with AI
- Behavioural signatures of ransomware execution flows
- Predicting encryption activity through file access patterns
- Blocking payload delivery via AI-powered email gateways
- Automating malware classification with multi-label models
- Using threat intelligence feeds to enrich detection models
- Real-time file reputation scoring with AI
- Reducing zero-day false negatives with ensemble methods
- Benchmarking detection rates against industry standards
Module 6: Phishing and Social Engineering Detection with AI - Analysing email headers and metadata for spoofing patterns
- Natural Language Processing (NLP) for phishing content detection
- Sentiment analysis to identify urgency and manipulation tactics
- URL analysis: detecting shortened, obfuscated, or malicious links
- Domain age, registration, and similarity analysis
- Image-based phishing: detecting fake login screens in attachments
- OCR integration for text extraction from images
- Training classifiers on known phishing email corpora
- Building custom filters for industry-specific scams
- Real-time scoring of inbound emails using AI models
- Integrating with Exchange, Gmail, and third-party gateways
- Automated quarantine and user notification workflows
- Monitoring impersonation attempts targeting executives
- Detecting business email compromise (BEC) with contextual analysis
- Evaluating model performance with phishing simulation data
Module 7: Network Traffic Analysis and Intrusion Detection - Understanding network flow data: IP, ports, protocols, and flags
- Passive monitoring vs active probing techniques
- Building session-based models for TCP and UDP streams
- Detecting port scanning and enumeration with sequence analysis
- Identifying command and control (C2) traffic patterns
- Detecting DNS tunneling with packet size and frequency analysis
- Using AI to flag encrypted C2 over TLS
- Analysing SSH brute force and credential stuffing events
- Identifying lateral movement through internal network traffic
- Detecting beaconing behaviour in outbound connections
- Building temporal models for access pattern anomalies
- Integrating with Suricata, Zeek, and open-source IDS
- Automating alert generation based on traffic deviations
- Reducing noise in IDS with AI-based filtering
- Creating visual network maps with suspicious node highlighting
Module 8: User and Entity Behaviour Analytics (UEBA) - Establishing baselines for normal user activity
- Tracking login times, locations, and device usage patterns
- Detecting compromised accounts through access anomalies
- Monitoring privileged user activity with AI scoring
- Identifying bulk data access or downloads by authorised users
- Correlating failed and successful authentication attempts
- Detecting service account misuse with behavioural profiling
- Analysing file access patterns across network shares
- Creating risk scores for users based on multi-factor inputs
- Using machine learning to predict insider threat likelihood
- Integrating HR data for offboarding risk assessment
- Detecting ghost accounts and orphaned permissions
- Automating user risk reports for compliance audits
- Responding to high-risk users with adaptive authentication
- Validating UEBA findings with investigative workflows
Module 9: AI in Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) - Understanding EDR data: process execution, file changes, registry edits
- Analysing process trees for suspicious child processes
- Detecting living-off-the-land binaries (LOLBins)
- Identifying PowerShell and WMI abuse with command-line analysis
- NLP techniques for parsing malicious script content
- Machine learning models for detecting persistence mechanisms
- Predicting credential dumping based on API call sequences
- Flagging suspicious service installations and driver loads
- Using AI to prioritise EDR alerts for investigation
- Building custom detection rules with AI-validated logic
- Automating containment workflows for high-confidence threats
- Reducing mean time to respond (MTTR) with AI triage
- Integrating with CrowdStrike, SentinelOne, and Microsoft Defender
- Validating detections through historical hunt queries
- Creating repeatable EDR investigation playbooks
Module 10: AI Integration with SIEM and SOAR Platforms - Connecting AI models to Splunk, IBM QRadar, and LogRhythm
- Exporting model scores to SIEM as custom fields
- Building correlation rules based on AI-derived risk scores
- Automating alert enrichment with external threat intelligence
- Using SOAR to execute AI-triggered response actions
- Orchestrating phishing quarantine and user notification
- Automating device isolation based on anomaly scores
- Creating dashboards to visualise AI detection performance
- Monitoring model drift and performance decay over time
- Retraining models using fresh data from the SIEM
- Setting up feedback loops for analyst-confirmed threats
- Improving model accuracy through human-in-the-loop learning
- Generating compliance reports with AI-assisted tagging
- Reducing analyst workload through intelligent prioritisation
- Documenting AI integration for audit and regulatory purposes
Module 11: Advanced AI Techniques for Zero-Day and APT Detection - Understanding Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) and stealth tactics
- Using AI to detect multi-stage attack campaigns
- Modelling attacker kill chains with machine learning
- Correlating low-fidelity alerts into high-confidence incidents
- Detecting stealthy C2 channels using low-and-slow techniques
- Analysing encrypted traffic without decryption using metadata
- Identifying adversary dwell time through behavioural analysis
- Using graph neural networks for attack path prediction
- Detecting lateral movement with graph traversal algorithms
- Mapping privilege escalation paths in complex environments
- Simulating attacker behaviour for defensive preparation
- Creating deception environments with AI-guided honeypots
- Using AI to adapt honeypot behaviour based on attacker actions
- Early detection of supply chain compromises
- Forecasting attack likelihood based on external threat trends
Module 12: Model Deployment, Maintenance, and Operationalisation - Choosing between cloud, on-premise, and hybrid deployment
- Using Docker and containers for model portability
- API integration for real-time scoring of security events
- Building automated data pipelines with Python and Bash
- Scheduling model retraining with cron and task runners
- Monitoring model health and performance metrics
- Detecting concept drift and data distribution shifts
- Setting up alerts for model degradation
- Version control for models and datasets using Git
- Documenting model assumptions and limitations
- Ensuring reproducibility of AI detection results
- Handling model updates with zero downtime
- Creating rollback procedures for failed deployments
- Scaling AI systems across large enterprise environments
- Optimising inference speed for real-time detection
Module 13: Ethical Considerations and AI Governance in Security - Understanding bias in AI models and its security implications
- Avoiding discriminatory access controls based on flawed data
- Ensuring transparency in automated decision-making
- Right to explanation in AI-driven security actions
- Compliance with GDPR, CCPA, and other privacy regulations
- Data minimisation principles in AI training
- Auditability of AI decisions for forensic review
- Establishing AI ethics review boards in security teams
- Preventing weaponisation of defensive AI systems
- Balancing security and privacy in employee monitoring
- Documenting model provenance and training data sources
- Third-party model risk assessment and validation
- Securing the AI pipeline from adversarial attacks
- Protecting models from evasion, poisoning, and reverse engineering
- Building trust in AI-augmented security operations
Module 14: Hands-On Capstone Project: Build Your Own AI Threat Detector - Defining a real-world use case for AI detection
- Selecting appropriate data sources and format
- Designing a detection pipeline from ingestion to alerting
- Preprocessing and cleaning raw security data
- Feature engineering for maximum predictive power
- Selecting and training an appropriate model type
- Evaluating performance using validation datasets
- Optimising thresholds for operational deployment
- Integrating the model with a logging or alerting system
- Creating a dashboard to visualise detection results
- Documenting the design, assumptions, and limitations
- Testing with simulated attack data for validation
- Writing a professional report of findings and recommendations
- Presenting results with confidence to technical and non-technical audiences
- Receiving expert feedback on your project implementation
Module 15: Certification, Career Advancement, and Next Steps - Preparing for your Certificate of Completion assessment
- Reviewing key concepts and practical applications
- Completing the final evaluation with confidence
- Receiving your official Certificate of Completion from The Art of Service
- Verifying your certificate with a unique identifier
- Adding your credential to LinkedIn and professional profiles
- Using the certification in job applications and promotions
- Networking with other AI-driven cybersecurity professionals
- Accessing exclusive alumni resources and updates
- Staying current with AI and security advancements
- Building a portfolio of AI security projects
- Transitioning into specialised roles: Threat Intelligence, AI Security Engineer, SOC Analyst
- Preparing for advanced certifications in AI and cybersecurity
- Contributing to open-source security AI projects
- Leading AI adoption initiatives within your organisation
Module 1: Foundations of AI-Driven Cybersecurity - Understanding the modern threat landscape and evolving attack vectors
- The limitations of traditional rule-based detection systems
- Why AI and machine learning are transforming cybersecurity
- Core principles of supervised and unsupervised learning in security
- Defining threat detection, anomaly detection, and behavioural analytics
- Overview of common cybersecurity frameworks and standards
- Integrating AI within NIST, ISO 27001, and MITRE ATT&CK
- The role of data in AI-powered security: quality, sources, and preparation
- Introduction to logs, events, and telemetry data formats
- Security use cases best suited for AI augmentation
- Understanding false positives and false negatives in detection systems
- Measuring detection accuracy, recall, and precision
- Practical examples of AI reducing detection time
- Building a business case for AI integration in your security team
- Assessing organisational readiness for AI adoption
Module 2: Core AI and Machine Learning Concepts for Security - Understanding algorithms without coding: a non-technical primer
- Supervised learning for known threat classification
- Unsupervised learning for anomaly detection in network traffic
- Semi-supervised models for hybrid threat environments
- Clustering techniques: K-means and DBSCAN in log analysis
- Dimensionality reduction with PCA for high-volume data
- Decision trees and random forests for alert triage
- Neural networks: basics and applications in threat detection
- Introduction to deep learning for sequence-based attacks
- Understanding overfitting and underfitting in security models
- Feature selection and engineering for security datasets
- Normalisation and scaling of security data
- Training, validation, and test datasets in practice
- Evaluating model performance with confusion matrices
- ROC curves and AUC scores for threshold tuning
Module 3: Data Preparation and Feature Engineering for Threat Detection - Data collection strategies from firewalls, IDS, and endpoints
- Aggregating logs from Syslog, Windows Event Logs, and SIEMs
- Handling structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data
- Time-series analysis in security event data
- Feature extraction from network flow data (NetFlow, sFlow)
- Creating behavioural baselines for users and devices
- Sessionisation of event streams for pattern detection
- Encoding categorical variables in security logs
- Handling missing data and outliers in telemetry
- Timestamp alignment and synchronisation across systems
- Creating derived features: frequency, duration, recurrence
- Hashing and anonymisation for privacy-preserving analysis
- Building custom feature sets for phishing, ransomware, and lateral movement
- Using domain knowledge to guide feature creation
- Validating feature relevance with correlation analysis
Module 4: Anomaly Detection Systems Using Machine Learning - Defining normal vs anomalous behaviour in enterprise networks
- Statistical anomaly detection with Gaussian models
- Using Isolation Forests for rare event detection
- Local Outlier Factor (LOF) for contextual anomaly identification
- One-class SVM for detecting unknown threats
- Autoencoders for reconstructing normal patterns and flagging deviations
- Deploying anomaly detection in user and entity behaviour analytics (UEBA)
- Detecting brute force attacks through login pattern deviations
- Spotting data exfiltration using volume and timing anomalies
- Identifying insider threats through behavioural shifts
- Tuning sensitivity to balance precision and recall
- Visualising anomaly scores over time for operational clarity
- Integrating anomaly alerts into existing ticketing systems
- Avoiding alert fatigue with intelligent prioritisation
- Validating anomaly findings with forensic investigation
Module 5: AI Models for Malware and Ransomware Detection - Static analysis of malware using file metadata and headers
- Dynamic analysis through sandboxed execution traces
- Extracting features from PE files and binaries
- Training classifiers to distinguish benign from malicious software
- Using APIs to scan files with AI-enhanced engines
- Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) networks for sequence-based malware
- Detecting polymorphic and metamorphic malware with AI
- Behavioural signatures of ransomware execution flows
- Predicting encryption activity through file access patterns
- Blocking payload delivery via AI-powered email gateways
- Automating malware classification with multi-label models
- Using threat intelligence feeds to enrich detection models
- Real-time file reputation scoring with AI
- Reducing zero-day false negatives with ensemble methods
- Benchmarking detection rates against industry standards
Module 6: Phishing and Social Engineering Detection with AI - Analysing email headers and metadata for spoofing patterns
- Natural Language Processing (NLP) for phishing content detection
- Sentiment analysis to identify urgency and manipulation tactics
- URL analysis: detecting shortened, obfuscated, or malicious links
- Domain age, registration, and similarity analysis
- Image-based phishing: detecting fake login screens in attachments
- OCR integration for text extraction from images
- Training classifiers on known phishing email corpora
- Building custom filters for industry-specific scams
- Real-time scoring of inbound emails using AI models
- Integrating with Exchange, Gmail, and third-party gateways
- Automated quarantine and user notification workflows
- Monitoring impersonation attempts targeting executives
- Detecting business email compromise (BEC) with contextual analysis
- Evaluating model performance with phishing simulation data
Module 7: Network Traffic Analysis and Intrusion Detection - Understanding network flow data: IP, ports, protocols, and flags
- Passive monitoring vs active probing techniques
- Building session-based models for TCP and UDP streams
- Detecting port scanning and enumeration with sequence analysis
- Identifying command and control (C2) traffic patterns
- Detecting DNS tunneling with packet size and frequency analysis
- Using AI to flag encrypted C2 over TLS
- Analysing SSH brute force and credential stuffing events
- Identifying lateral movement through internal network traffic
- Detecting beaconing behaviour in outbound connections
- Building temporal models for access pattern anomalies
- Integrating with Suricata, Zeek, and open-source IDS
- Automating alert generation based on traffic deviations
- Reducing noise in IDS with AI-based filtering
- Creating visual network maps with suspicious node highlighting
Module 8: User and Entity Behaviour Analytics (UEBA) - Establishing baselines for normal user activity
- Tracking login times, locations, and device usage patterns
- Detecting compromised accounts through access anomalies
- Monitoring privileged user activity with AI scoring
- Identifying bulk data access or downloads by authorised users
- Correlating failed and successful authentication attempts
- Detecting service account misuse with behavioural profiling
- Analysing file access patterns across network shares
- Creating risk scores for users based on multi-factor inputs
- Using machine learning to predict insider threat likelihood
- Integrating HR data for offboarding risk assessment
- Detecting ghost accounts and orphaned permissions
- Automating user risk reports for compliance audits
- Responding to high-risk users with adaptive authentication
- Validating UEBA findings with investigative workflows
Module 9: AI in Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) - Understanding EDR data: process execution, file changes, registry edits
- Analysing process trees for suspicious child processes
- Detecting living-off-the-land binaries (LOLBins)
- Identifying PowerShell and WMI abuse with command-line analysis
- NLP techniques for parsing malicious script content
- Machine learning models for detecting persistence mechanisms
- Predicting credential dumping based on API call sequences
- Flagging suspicious service installations and driver loads
- Using AI to prioritise EDR alerts for investigation
- Building custom detection rules with AI-validated logic
- Automating containment workflows for high-confidence threats
- Reducing mean time to respond (MTTR) with AI triage
- Integrating with CrowdStrike, SentinelOne, and Microsoft Defender
- Validating detections through historical hunt queries
- Creating repeatable EDR investigation playbooks
Module 10: AI Integration with SIEM and SOAR Platforms - Connecting AI models to Splunk, IBM QRadar, and LogRhythm
- Exporting model scores to SIEM as custom fields
- Building correlation rules based on AI-derived risk scores
- Automating alert enrichment with external threat intelligence
- Using SOAR to execute AI-triggered response actions
- Orchestrating phishing quarantine and user notification
- Automating device isolation based on anomaly scores
- Creating dashboards to visualise AI detection performance
- Monitoring model drift and performance decay over time
- Retraining models using fresh data from the SIEM
- Setting up feedback loops for analyst-confirmed threats
- Improving model accuracy through human-in-the-loop learning
- Generating compliance reports with AI-assisted tagging
- Reducing analyst workload through intelligent prioritisation
- Documenting AI integration for audit and regulatory purposes
Module 11: Advanced AI Techniques for Zero-Day and APT Detection - Understanding Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) and stealth tactics
- Using AI to detect multi-stage attack campaigns
- Modelling attacker kill chains with machine learning
- Correlating low-fidelity alerts into high-confidence incidents
- Detecting stealthy C2 channels using low-and-slow techniques
- Analysing encrypted traffic without decryption using metadata
- Identifying adversary dwell time through behavioural analysis
- Using graph neural networks for attack path prediction
- Detecting lateral movement with graph traversal algorithms
- Mapping privilege escalation paths in complex environments
- Simulating attacker behaviour for defensive preparation
- Creating deception environments with AI-guided honeypots
- Using AI to adapt honeypot behaviour based on attacker actions
- Early detection of supply chain compromises
- Forecasting attack likelihood based on external threat trends
Module 12: Model Deployment, Maintenance, and Operationalisation - Choosing between cloud, on-premise, and hybrid deployment
- Using Docker and containers for model portability
- API integration for real-time scoring of security events
- Building automated data pipelines with Python and Bash
- Scheduling model retraining with cron and task runners
- Monitoring model health and performance metrics
- Detecting concept drift and data distribution shifts
- Setting up alerts for model degradation
- Version control for models and datasets using Git
- Documenting model assumptions and limitations
- Ensuring reproducibility of AI detection results
- Handling model updates with zero downtime
- Creating rollback procedures for failed deployments
- Scaling AI systems across large enterprise environments
- Optimising inference speed for real-time detection
Module 13: Ethical Considerations and AI Governance in Security - Understanding bias in AI models and its security implications
- Avoiding discriminatory access controls based on flawed data
- Ensuring transparency in automated decision-making
- Right to explanation in AI-driven security actions
- Compliance with GDPR, CCPA, and other privacy regulations
- Data minimisation principles in AI training
- Auditability of AI decisions for forensic review
- Establishing AI ethics review boards in security teams
- Preventing weaponisation of defensive AI systems
- Balancing security and privacy in employee monitoring
- Documenting model provenance and training data sources
- Third-party model risk assessment and validation
- Securing the AI pipeline from adversarial attacks
- Protecting models from evasion, poisoning, and reverse engineering
- Building trust in AI-augmented security operations
Module 14: Hands-On Capstone Project: Build Your Own AI Threat Detector - Defining a real-world use case for AI detection
- Selecting appropriate data sources and format
- Designing a detection pipeline from ingestion to alerting
- Preprocessing and cleaning raw security data
- Feature engineering for maximum predictive power
- Selecting and training an appropriate model type
- Evaluating performance using validation datasets
- Optimising thresholds for operational deployment
- Integrating the model with a logging or alerting system
- Creating a dashboard to visualise detection results
- Documenting the design, assumptions, and limitations
- Testing with simulated attack data for validation
- Writing a professional report of findings and recommendations
- Presenting results with confidence to technical and non-technical audiences
- Receiving expert feedback on your project implementation
Module 15: Certification, Career Advancement, and Next Steps - Preparing for your Certificate of Completion assessment
- Reviewing key concepts and practical applications
- Completing the final evaluation with confidence
- Receiving your official Certificate of Completion from The Art of Service
- Verifying your certificate with a unique identifier
- Adding your credential to LinkedIn and professional profiles
- Using the certification in job applications and promotions
- Networking with other AI-driven cybersecurity professionals
- Accessing exclusive alumni resources and updates
- Staying current with AI and security advancements
- Building a portfolio of AI security projects
- Transitioning into specialised roles: Threat Intelligence, AI Security Engineer, SOC Analyst
- Preparing for advanced certifications in AI and cybersecurity
- Contributing to open-source security AI projects
- Leading AI adoption initiatives within your organisation
- Understanding algorithms without coding: a non-technical primer
- Supervised learning for known threat classification
- Unsupervised learning for anomaly detection in network traffic
- Semi-supervised models for hybrid threat environments
- Clustering techniques: K-means and DBSCAN in log analysis
- Dimensionality reduction with PCA for high-volume data
- Decision trees and random forests for alert triage
- Neural networks: basics and applications in threat detection
- Introduction to deep learning for sequence-based attacks
- Understanding overfitting and underfitting in security models
- Feature selection and engineering for security datasets
- Normalisation and scaling of security data
- Training, validation, and test datasets in practice
- Evaluating model performance with confusion matrices
- ROC curves and AUC scores for threshold tuning
Module 3: Data Preparation and Feature Engineering for Threat Detection - Data collection strategies from firewalls, IDS, and endpoints
- Aggregating logs from Syslog, Windows Event Logs, and SIEMs
- Handling structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data
- Time-series analysis in security event data
- Feature extraction from network flow data (NetFlow, sFlow)
- Creating behavioural baselines for users and devices
- Sessionisation of event streams for pattern detection
- Encoding categorical variables in security logs
- Handling missing data and outliers in telemetry
- Timestamp alignment and synchronisation across systems
- Creating derived features: frequency, duration, recurrence
- Hashing and anonymisation for privacy-preserving analysis
- Building custom feature sets for phishing, ransomware, and lateral movement
- Using domain knowledge to guide feature creation
- Validating feature relevance with correlation analysis
Module 4: Anomaly Detection Systems Using Machine Learning - Defining normal vs anomalous behaviour in enterprise networks
- Statistical anomaly detection with Gaussian models
- Using Isolation Forests for rare event detection
- Local Outlier Factor (LOF) for contextual anomaly identification
- One-class SVM for detecting unknown threats
- Autoencoders for reconstructing normal patterns and flagging deviations
- Deploying anomaly detection in user and entity behaviour analytics (UEBA)
- Detecting brute force attacks through login pattern deviations
- Spotting data exfiltration using volume and timing anomalies
- Identifying insider threats through behavioural shifts
- Tuning sensitivity to balance precision and recall
- Visualising anomaly scores over time for operational clarity
- Integrating anomaly alerts into existing ticketing systems
- Avoiding alert fatigue with intelligent prioritisation
- Validating anomaly findings with forensic investigation
Module 5: AI Models for Malware and Ransomware Detection - Static analysis of malware using file metadata and headers
- Dynamic analysis through sandboxed execution traces
- Extracting features from PE files and binaries
- Training classifiers to distinguish benign from malicious software
- Using APIs to scan files with AI-enhanced engines
- Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) networks for sequence-based malware
- Detecting polymorphic and metamorphic malware with AI
- Behavioural signatures of ransomware execution flows
- Predicting encryption activity through file access patterns
- Blocking payload delivery via AI-powered email gateways
- Automating malware classification with multi-label models
- Using threat intelligence feeds to enrich detection models
- Real-time file reputation scoring with AI
- Reducing zero-day false negatives with ensemble methods
- Benchmarking detection rates against industry standards
Module 6: Phishing and Social Engineering Detection with AI - Analysing email headers and metadata for spoofing patterns
- Natural Language Processing (NLP) for phishing content detection
- Sentiment analysis to identify urgency and manipulation tactics
- URL analysis: detecting shortened, obfuscated, or malicious links
- Domain age, registration, and similarity analysis
- Image-based phishing: detecting fake login screens in attachments
- OCR integration for text extraction from images
- Training classifiers on known phishing email corpora
- Building custom filters for industry-specific scams
- Real-time scoring of inbound emails using AI models
- Integrating with Exchange, Gmail, and third-party gateways
- Automated quarantine and user notification workflows
- Monitoring impersonation attempts targeting executives
- Detecting business email compromise (BEC) with contextual analysis
- Evaluating model performance with phishing simulation data
Module 7: Network Traffic Analysis and Intrusion Detection - Understanding network flow data: IP, ports, protocols, and flags
- Passive monitoring vs active probing techniques
- Building session-based models for TCP and UDP streams
- Detecting port scanning and enumeration with sequence analysis
- Identifying command and control (C2) traffic patterns
- Detecting DNS tunneling with packet size and frequency analysis
- Using AI to flag encrypted C2 over TLS
- Analysing SSH brute force and credential stuffing events
- Identifying lateral movement through internal network traffic
- Detecting beaconing behaviour in outbound connections
- Building temporal models for access pattern anomalies
- Integrating with Suricata, Zeek, and open-source IDS
- Automating alert generation based on traffic deviations
- Reducing noise in IDS with AI-based filtering
- Creating visual network maps with suspicious node highlighting
Module 8: User and Entity Behaviour Analytics (UEBA) - Establishing baselines for normal user activity
- Tracking login times, locations, and device usage patterns
- Detecting compromised accounts through access anomalies
- Monitoring privileged user activity with AI scoring
- Identifying bulk data access or downloads by authorised users
- Correlating failed and successful authentication attempts
- Detecting service account misuse with behavioural profiling
- Analysing file access patterns across network shares
- Creating risk scores for users based on multi-factor inputs
- Using machine learning to predict insider threat likelihood
- Integrating HR data for offboarding risk assessment
- Detecting ghost accounts and orphaned permissions
- Automating user risk reports for compliance audits
- Responding to high-risk users with adaptive authentication
- Validating UEBA findings with investigative workflows
Module 9: AI in Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) - Understanding EDR data: process execution, file changes, registry edits
- Analysing process trees for suspicious child processes
- Detecting living-off-the-land binaries (LOLBins)
- Identifying PowerShell and WMI abuse with command-line analysis
- NLP techniques for parsing malicious script content
- Machine learning models for detecting persistence mechanisms
- Predicting credential dumping based on API call sequences
- Flagging suspicious service installations and driver loads
- Using AI to prioritise EDR alerts for investigation
- Building custom detection rules with AI-validated logic
- Automating containment workflows for high-confidence threats
- Reducing mean time to respond (MTTR) with AI triage
- Integrating with CrowdStrike, SentinelOne, and Microsoft Defender
- Validating detections through historical hunt queries
- Creating repeatable EDR investigation playbooks
Module 10: AI Integration with SIEM and SOAR Platforms - Connecting AI models to Splunk, IBM QRadar, and LogRhythm
- Exporting model scores to SIEM as custom fields
- Building correlation rules based on AI-derived risk scores
- Automating alert enrichment with external threat intelligence
- Using SOAR to execute AI-triggered response actions
- Orchestrating phishing quarantine and user notification
- Automating device isolation based on anomaly scores
- Creating dashboards to visualise AI detection performance
- Monitoring model drift and performance decay over time
- Retraining models using fresh data from the SIEM
- Setting up feedback loops for analyst-confirmed threats
- Improving model accuracy through human-in-the-loop learning
- Generating compliance reports with AI-assisted tagging
- Reducing analyst workload through intelligent prioritisation
- Documenting AI integration for audit and regulatory purposes
Module 11: Advanced AI Techniques for Zero-Day and APT Detection - Understanding Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) and stealth tactics
- Using AI to detect multi-stage attack campaigns
- Modelling attacker kill chains with machine learning
- Correlating low-fidelity alerts into high-confidence incidents
- Detecting stealthy C2 channels using low-and-slow techniques
- Analysing encrypted traffic without decryption using metadata
- Identifying adversary dwell time through behavioural analysis
- Using graph neural networks for attack path prediction
- Detecting lateral movement with graph traversal algorithms
- Mapping privilege escalation paths in complex environments
- Simulating attacker behaviour for defensive preparation
- Creating deception environments with AI-guided honeypots
- Using AI to adapt honeypot behaviour based on attacker actions
- Early detection of supply chain compromises
- Forecasting attack likelihood based on external threat trends
Module 12: Model Deployment, Maintenance, and Operationalisation - Choosing between cloud, on-premise, and hybrid deployment
- Using Docker and containers for model portability
- API integration for real-time scoring of security events
- Building automated data pipelines with Python and Bash
- Scheduling model retraining with cron and task runners
- Monitoring model health and performance metrics
- Detecting concept drift and data distribution shifts
- Setting up alerts for model degradation
- Version control for models and datasets using Git
- Documenting model assumptions and limitations
- Ensuring reproducibility of AI detection results
- Handling model updates with zero downtime
- Creating rollback procedures for failed deployments
- Scaling AI systems across large enterprise environments
- Optimising inference speed for real-time detection
Module 13: Ethical Considerations and AI Governance in Security - Understanding bias in AI models and its security implications
- Avoiding discriminatory access controls based on flawed data
- Ensuring transparency in automated decision-making
- Right to explanation in AI-driven security actions
- Compliance with GDPR, CCPA, and other privacy regulations
- Data minimisation principles in AI training
- Auditability of AI decisions for forensic review
- Establishing AI ethics review boards in security teams
- Preventing weaponisation of defensive AI systems
- Balancing security and privacy in employee monitoring
- Documenting model provenance and training data sources
- Third-party model risk assessment and validation
- Securing the AI pipeline from adversarial attacks
- Protecting models from evasion, poisoning, and reverse engineering
- Building trust in AI-augmented security operations
Module 14: Hands-On Capstone Project: Build Your Own AI Threat Detector - Defining a real-world use case for AI detection
- Selecting appropriate data sources and format
- Designing a detection pipeline from ingestion to alerting
- Preprocessing and cleaning raw security data
- Feature engineering for maximum predictive power
- Selecting and training an appropriate model type
- Evaluating performance using validation datasets
- Optimising thresholds for operational deployment
- Integrating the model with a logging or alerting system
- Creating a dashboard to visualise detection results
- Documenting the design, assumptions, and limitations
- Testing with simulated attack data for validation
- Writing a professional report of findings and recommendations
- Presenting results with confidence to technical and non-technical audiences
- Receiving expert feedback on your project implementation
Module 15: Certification, Career Advancement, and Next Steps - Preparing for your Certificate of Completion assessment
- Reviewing key concepts and practical applications
- Completing the final evaluation with confidence
- Receiving your official Certificate of Completion from The Art of Service
- Verifying your certificate with a unique identifier
- Adding your credential to LinkedIn and professional profiles
- Using the certification in job applications and promotions
- Networking with other AI-driven cybersecurity professionals
- Accessing exclusive alumni resources and updates
- Staying current with AI and security advancements
- Building a portfolio of AI security projects
- Transitioning into specialised roles: Threat Intelligence, AI Security Engineer, SOC Analyst
- Preparing for advanced certifications in AI and cybersecurity
- Contributing to open-source security AI projects
- Leading AI adoption initiatives within your organisation
- Defining normal vs anomalous behaviour in enterprise networks
- Statistical anomaly detection with Gaussian models
- Using Isolation Forests for rare event detection
- Local Outlier Factor (LOF) for contextual anomaly identification
- One-class SVM for detecting unknown threats
- Autoencoders for reconstructing normal patterns and flagging deviations
- Deploying anomaly detection in user and entity behaviour analytics (UEBA)
- Detecting brute force attacks through login pattern deviations
- Spotting data exfiltration using volume and timing anomalies
- Identifying insider threats through behavioural shifts
- Tuning sensitivity to balance precision and recall
- Visualising anomaly scores over time for operational clarity
- Integrating anomaly alerts into existing ticketing systems
- Avoiding alert fatigue with intelligent prioritisation
- Validating anomaly findings with forensic investigation
Module 5: AI Models for Malware and Ransomware Detection - Static analysis of malware using file metadata and headers
- Dynamic analysis through sandboxed execution traces
- Extracting features from PE files and binaries
- Training classifiers to distinguish benign from malicious software
- Using APIs to scan files with AI-enhanced engines
- Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) networks for sequence-based malware
- Detecting polymorphic and metamorphic malware with AI
- Behavioural signatures of ransomware execution flows
- Predicting encryption activity through file access patterns
- Blocking payload delivery via AI-powered email gateways
- Automating malware classification with multi-label models
- Using threat intelligence feeds to enrich detection models
- Real-time file reputation scoring with AI
- Reducing zero-day false negatives with ensemble methods
- Benchmarking detection rates against industry standards
Module 6: Phishing and Social Engineering Detection with AI - Analysing email headers and metadata for spoofing patterns
- Natural Language Processing (NLP) for phishing content detection
- Sentiment analysis to identify urgency and manipulation tactics
- URL analysis: detecting shortened, obfuscated, or malicious links
- Domain age, registration, and similarity analysis
- Image-based phishing: detecting fake login screens in attachments
- OCR integration for text extraction from images
- Training classifiers on known phishing email corpora
- Building custom filters for industry-specific scams
- Real-time scoring of inbound emails using AI models
- Integrating with Exchange, Gmail, and third-party gateways
- Automated quarantine and user notification workflows
- Monitoring impersonation attempts targeting executives
- Detecting business email compromise (BEC) with contextual analysis
- Evaluating model performance with phishing simulation data
Module 7: Network Traffic Analysis and Intrusion Detection - Understanding network flow data: IP, ports, protocols, and flags
- Passive monitoring vs active probing techniques
- Building session-based models for TCP and UDP streams
- Detecting port scanning and enumeration with sequence analysis
- Identifying command and control (C2) traffic patterns
- Detecting DNS tunneling with packet size and frequency analysis
- Using AI to flag encrypted C2 over TLS
- Analysing SSH brute force and credential stuffing events
- Identifying lateral movement through internal network traffic
- Detecting beaconing behaviour in outbound connections
- Building temporal models for access pattern anomalies
- Integrating with Suricata, Zeek, and open-source IDS
- Automating alert generation based on traffic deviations
- Reducing noise in IDS with AI-based filtering
- Creating visual network maps with suspicious node highlighting
Module 8: User and Entity Behaviour Analytics (UEBA) - Establishing baselines for normal user activity
- Tracking login times, locations, and device usage patterns
- Detecting compromised accounts through access anomalies
- Monitoring privileged user activity with AI scoring
- Identifying bulk data access or downloads by authorised users
- Correlating failed and successful authentication attempts
- Detecting service account misuse with behavioural profiling
- Analysing file access patterns across network shares
- Creating risk scores for users based on multi-factor inputs
- Using machine learning to predict insider threat likelihood
- Integrating HR data for offboarding risk assessment
- Detecting ghost accounts and orphaned permissions
- Automating user risk reports for compliance audits
- Responding to high-risk users with adaptive authentication
- Validating UEBA findings with investigative workflows
Module 9: AI in Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) - Understanding EDR data: process execution, file changes, registry edits
- Analysing process trees for suspicious child processes
- Detecting living-off-the-land binaries (LOLBins)
- Identifying PowerShell and WMI abuse with command-line analysis
- NLP techniques for parsing malicious script content
- Machine learning models for detecting persistence mechanisms
- Predicting credential dumping based on API call sequences
- Flagging suspicious service installations and driver loads
- Using AI to prioritise EDR alerts for investigation
- Building custom detection rules with AI-validated logic
- Automating containment workflows for high-confidence threats
- Reducing mean time to respond (MTTR) with AI triage
- Integrating with CrowdStrike, SentinelOne, and Microsoft Defender
- Validating detections through historical hunt queries
- Creating repeatable EDR investigation playbooks
Module 10: AI Integration with SIEM and SOAR Platforms - Connecting AI models to Splunk, IBM QRadar, and LogRhythm
- Exporting model scores to SIEM as custom fields
- Building correlation rules based on AI-derived risk scores
- Automating alert enrichment with external threat intelligence
- Using SOAR to execute AI-triggered response actions
- Orchestrating phishing quarantine and user notification
- Automating device isolation based on anomaly scores
- Creating dashboards to visualise AI detection performance
- Monitoring model drift and performance decay over time
- Retraining models using fresh data from the SIEM
- Setting up feedback loops for analyst-confirmed threats
- Improving model accuracy through human-in-the-loop learning
- Generating compliance reports with AI-assisted tagging
- Reducing analyst workload through intelligent prioritisation
- Documenting AI integration for audit and regulatory purposes
Module 11: Advanced AI Techniques for Zero-Day and APT Detection - Understanding Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) and stealth tactics
- Using AI to detect multi-stage attack campaigns
- Modelling attacker kill chains with machine learning
- Correlating low-fidelity alerts into high-confidence incidents
- Detecting stealthy C2 channels using low-and-slow techniques
- Analysing encrypted traffic without decryption using metadata
- Identifying adversary dwell time through behavioural analysis
- Using graph neural networks for attack path prediction
- Detecting lateral movement with graph traversal algorithms
- Mapping privilege escalation paths in complex environments
- Simulating attacker behaviour for defensive preparation
- Creating deception environments with AI-guided honeypots
- Using AI to adapt honeypot behaviour based on attacker actions
- Early detection of supply chain compromises
- Forecasting attack likelihood based on external threat trends
Module 12: Model Deployment, Maintenance, and Operationalisation - Choosing between cloud, on-premise, and hybrid deployment
- Using Docker and containers for model portability
- API integration for real-time scoring of security events
- Building automated data pipelines with Python and Bash
- Scheduling model retraining with cron and task runners
- Monitoring model health and performance metrics
- Detecting concept drift and data distribution shifts
- Setting up alerts for model degradation
- Version control for models and datasets using Git
- Documenting model assumptions and limitations
- Ensuring reproducibility of AI detection results
- Handling model updates with zero downtime
- Creating rollback procedures for failed deployments
- Scaling AI systems across large enterprise environments
- Optimising inference speed for real-time detection
Module 13: Ethical Considerations and AI Governance in Security - Understanding bias in AI models and its security implications
- Avoiding discriminatory access controls based on flawed data
- Ensuring transparency in automated decision-making
- Right to explanation in AI-driven security actions
- Compliance with GDPR, CCPA, and other privacy regulations
- Data minimisation principles in AI training
- Auditability of AI decisions for forensic review
- Establishing AI ethics review boards in security teams
- Preventing weaponisation of defensive AI systems
- Balancing security and privacy in employee monitoring
- Documenting model provenance and training data sources
- Third-party model risk assessment and validation
- Securing the AI pipeline from adversarial attacks
- Protecting models from evasion, poisoning, and reverse engineering
- Building trust in AI-augmented security operations
Module 14: Hands-On Capstone Project: Build Your Own AI Threat Detector - Defining a real-world use case for AI detection
- Selecting appropriate data sources and format
- Designing a detection pipeline from ingestion to alerting
- Preprocessing and cleaning raw security data
- Feature engineering for maximum predictive power
- Selecting and training an appropriate model type
- Evaluating performance using validation datasets
- Optimising thresholds for operational deployment
- Integrating the model with a logging or alerting system
- Creating a dashboard to visualise detection results
- Documenting the design, assumptions, and limitations
- Testing with simulated attack data for validation
- Writing a professional report of findings and recommendations
- Presenting results with confidence to technical and non-technical audiences
- Receiving expert feedback on your project implementation
Module 15: Certification, Career Advancement, and Next Steps - Preparing for your Certificate of Completion assessment
- Reviewing key concepts and practical applications
- Completing the final evaluation with confidence
- Receiving your official Certificate of Completion from The Art of Service
- Verifying your certificate with a unique identifier
- Adding your credential to LinkedIn and professional profiles
- Using the certification in job applications and promotions
- Networking with other AI-driven cybersecurity professionals
- Accessing exclusive alumni resources and updates
- Staying current with AI and security advancements
- Building a portfolio of AI security projects
- Transitioning into specialised roles: Threat Intelligence, AI Security Engineer, SOC Analyst
- Preparing for advanced certifications in AI and cybersecurity
- Contributing to open-source security AI projects
- Leading AI adoption initiatives within your organisation
- Analysing email headers and metadata for spoofing patterns
- Natural Language Processing (NLP) for phishing content detection
- Sentiment analysis to identify urgency and manipulation tactics
- URL analysis: detecting shortened, obfuscated, or malicious links
- Domain age, registration, and similarity analysis
- Image-based phishing: detecting fake login screens in attachments
- OCR integration for text extraction from images
- Training classifiers on known phishing email corpora
- Building custom filters for industry-specific scams
- Real-time scoring of inbound emails using AI models
- Integrating with Exchange, Gmail, and third-party gateways
- Automated quarantine and user notification workflows
- Monitoring impersonation attempts targeting executives
- Detecting business email compromise (BEC) with contextual analysis
- Evaluating model performance with phishing simulation data
Module 7: Network Traffic Analysis and Intrusion Detection - Understanding network flow data: IP, ports, protocols, and flags
- Passive monitoring vs active probing techniques
- Building session-based models for TCP and UDP streams
- Detecting port scanning and enumeration with sequence analysis
- Identifying command and control (C2) traffic patterns
- Detecting DNS tunneling with packet size and frequency analysis
- Using AI to flag encrypted C2 over TLS
- Analysing SSH brute force and credential stuffing events
- Identifying lateral movement through internal network traffic
- Detecting beaconing behaviour in outbound connections
- Building temporal models for access pattern anomalies
- Integrating with Suricata, Zeek, and open-source IDS
- Automating alert generation based on traffic deviations
- Reducing noise in IDS with AI-based filtering
- Creating visual network maps with suspicious node highlighting
Module 8: User and Entity Behaviour Analytics (UEBA) - Establishing baselines for normal user activity
- Tracking login times, locations, and device usage patterns
- Detecting compromised accounts through access anomalies
- Monitoring privileged user activity with AI scoring
- Identifying bulk data access or downloads by authorised users
- Correlating failed and successful authentication attempts
- Detecting service account misuse with behavioural profiling
- Analysing file access patterns across network shares
- Creating risk scores for users based on multi-factor inputs
- Using machine learning to predict insider threat likelihood
- Integrating HR data for offboarding risk assessment
- Detecting ghost accounts and orphaned permissions
- Automating user risk reports for compliance audits
- Responding to high-risk users with adaptive authentication
- Validating UEBA findings with investigative workflows
Module 9: AI in Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) - Understanding EDR data: process execution, file changes, registry edits
- Analysing process trees for suspicious child processes
- Detecting living-off-the-land binaries (LOLBins)
- Identifying PowerShell and WMI abuse with command-line analysis
- NLP techniques for parsing malicious script content
- Machine learning models for detecting persistence mechanisms
- Predicting credential dumping based on API call sequences
- Flagging suspicious service installations and driver loads
- Using AI to prioritise EDR alerts for investigation
- Building custom detection rules with AI-validated logic
- Automating containment workflows for high-confidence threats
- Reducing mean time to respond (MTTR) with AI triage
- Integrating with CrowdStrike, SentinelOne, and Microsoft Defender
- Validating detections through historical hunt queries
- Creating repeatable EDR investigation playbooks
Module 10: AI Integration with SIEM and SOAR Platforms - Connecting AI models to Splunk, IBM QRadar, and LogRhythm
- Exporting model scores to SIEM as custom fields
- Building correlation rules based on AI-derived risk scores
- Automating alert enrichment with external threat intelligence
- Using SOAR to execute AI-triggered response actions
- Orchestrating phishing quarantine and user notification
- Automating device isolation based on anomaly scores
- Creating dashboards to visualise AI detection performance
- Monitoring model drift and performance decay over time
- Retraining models using fresh data from the SIEM
- Setting up feedback loops for analyst-confirmed threats
- Improving model accuracy through human-in-the-loop learning
- Generating compliance reports with AI-assisted tagging
- Reducing analyst workload through intelligent prioritisation
- Documenting AI integration for audit and regulatory purposes
Module 11: Advanced AI Techniques for Zero-Day and APT Detection - Understanding Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) and stealth tactics
- Using AI to detect multi-stage attack campaigns
- Modelling attacker kill chains with machine learning
- Correlating low-fidelity alerts into high-confidence incidents
- Detecting stealthy C2 channels using low-and-slow techniques
- Analysing encrypted traffic without decryption using metadata
- Identifying adversary dwell time through behavioural analysis
- Using graph neural networks for attack path prediction
- Detecting lateral movement with graph traversal algorithms
- Mapping privilege escalation paths in complex environments
- Simulating attacker behaviour for defensive preparation
- Creating deception environments with AI-guided honeypots
- Using AI to adapt honeypot behaviour based on attacker actions
- Early detection of supply chain compromises
- Forecasting attack likelihood based on external threat trends
Module 12: Model Deployment, Maintenance, and Operationalisation - Choosing between cloud, on-premise, and hybrid deployment
- Using Docker and containers for model portability
- API integration for real-time scoring of security events
- Building automated data pipelines with Python and Bash
- Scheduling model retraining with cron and task runners
- Monitoring model health and performance metrics
- Detecting concept drift and data distribution shifts
- Setting up alerts for model degradation
- Version control for models and datasets using Git
- Documenting model assumptions and limitations
- Ensuring reproducibility of AI detection results
- Handling model updates with zero downtime
- Creating rollback procedures for failed deployments
- Scaling AI systems across large enterprise environments
- Optimising inference speed for real-time detection
Module 13: Ethical Considerations and AI Governance in Security - Understanding bias in AI models and its security implications
- Avoiding discriminatory access controls based on flawed data
- Ensuring transparency in automated decision-making
- Right to explanation in AI-driven security actions
- Compliance with GDPR, CCPA, and other privacy regulations
- Data minimisation principles in AI training
- Auditability of AI decisions for forensic review
- Establishing AI ethics review boards in security teams
- Preventing weaponisation of defensive AI systems
- Balancing security and privacy in employee monitoring
- Documenting model provenance and training data sources
- Third-party model risk assessment and validation
- Securing the AI pipeline from adversarial attacks
- Protecting models from evasion, poisoning, and reverse engineering
- Building trust in AI-augmented security operations
Module 14: Hands-On Capstone Project: Build Your Own AI Threat Detector - Defining a real-world use case for AI detection
- Selecting appropriate data sources and format
- Designing a detection pipeline from ingestion to alerting
- Preprocessing and cleaning raw security data
- Feature engineering for maximum predictive power
- Selecting and training an appropriate model type
- Evaluating performance using validation datasets
- Optimising thresholds for operational deployment
- Integrating the model with a logging or alerting system
- Creating a dashboard to visualise detection results
- Documenting the design, assumptions, and limitations
- Testing with simulated attack data for validation
- Writing a professional report of findings and recommendations
- Presenting results with confidence to technical and non-technical audiences
- Receiving expert feedback on your project implementation
Module 15: Certification, Career Advancement, and Next Steps - Preparing for your Certificate of Completion assessment
- Reviewing key concepts and practical applications
- Completing the final evaluation with confidence
- Receiving your official Certificate of Completion from The Art of Service
- Verifying your certificate with a unique identifier
- Adding your credential to LinkedIn and professional profiles
- Using the certification in job applications and promotions
- Networking with other AI-driven cybersecurity professionals
- Accessing exclusive alumni resources and updates
- Staying current with AI and security advancements
- Building a portfolio of AI security projects
- Transitioning into specialised roles: Threat Intelligence, AI Security Engineer, SOC Analyst
- Preparing for advanced certifications in AI and cybersecurity
- Contributing to open-source security AI projects
- Leading AI adoption initiatives within your organisation
- Establishing baselines for normal user activity
- Tracking login times, locations, and device usage patterns
- Detecting compromised accounts through access anomalies
- Monitoring privileged user activity with AI scoring
- Identifying bulk data access or downloads by authorised users
- Correlating failed and successful authentication attempts
- Detecting service account misuse with behavioural profiling
- Analysing file access patterns across network shares
- Creating risk scores for users based on multi-factor inputs
- Using machine learning to predict insider threat likelihood
- Integrating HR data for offboarding risk assessment
- Detecting ghost accounts and orphaned permissions
- Automating user risk reports for compliance audits
- Responding to high-risk users with adaptive authentication
- Validating UEBA findings with investigative workflows
Module 9: AI in Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) - Understanding EDR data: process execution, file changes, registry edits
- Analysing process trees for suspicious child processes
- Detecting living-off-the-land binaries (LOLBins)
- Identifying PowerShell and WMI abuse with command-line analysis
- NLP techniques for parsing malicious script content
- Machine learning models for detecting persistence mechanisms
- Predicting credential dumping based on API call sequences
- Flagging suspicious service installations and driver loads
- Using AI to prioritise EDR alerts for investigation
- Building custom detection rules with AI-validated logic
- Automating containment workflows for high-confidence threats
- Reducing mean time to respond (MTTR) with AI triage
- Integrating with CrowdStrike, SentinelOne, and Microsoft Defender
- Validating detections through historical hunt queries
- Creating repeatable EDR investigation playbooks
Module 10: AI Integration with SIEM and SOAR Platforms - Connecting AI models to Splunk, IBM QRadar, and LogRhythm
- Exporting model scores to SIEM as custom fields
- Building correlation rules based on AI-derived risk scores
- Automating alert enrichment with external threat intelligence
- Using SOAR to execute AI-triggered response actions
- Orchestrating phishing quarantine and user notification
- Automating device isolation based on anomaly scores
- Creating dashboards to visualise AI detection performance
- Monitoring model drift and performance decay over time
- Retraining models using fresh data from the SIEM
- Setting up feedback loops for analyst-confirmed threats
- Improving model accuracy through human-in-the-loop learning
- Generating compliance reports with AI-assisted tagging
- Reducing analyst workload through intelligent prioritisation
- Documenting AI integration for audit and regulatory purposes
Module 11: Advanced AI Techniques for Zero-Day and APT Detection - Understanding Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) and stealth tactics
- Using AI to detect multi-stage attack campaigns
- Modelling attacker kill chains with machine learning
- Correlating low-fidelity alerts into high-confidence incidents
- Detecting stealthy C2 channels using low-and-slow techniques
- Analysing encrypted traffic without decryption using metadata
- Identifying adversary dwell time through behavioural analysis
- Using graph neural networks for attack path prediction
- Detecting lateral movement with graph traversal algorithms
- Mapping privilege escalation paths in complex environments
- Simulating attacker behaviour for defensive preparation
- Creating deception environments with AI-guided honeypots
- Using AI to adapt honeypot behaviour based on attacker actions
- Early detection of supply chain compromises
- Forecasting attack likelihood based on external threat trends
Module 12: Model Deployment, Maintenance, and Operationalisation - Choosing between cloud, on-premise, and hybrid deployment
- Using Docker and containers for model portability
- API integration for real-time scoring of security events
- Building automated data pipelines with Python and Bash
- Scheduling model retraining with cron and task runners
- Monitoring model health and performance metrics
- Detecting concept drift and data distribution shifts
- Setting up alerts for model degradation
- Version control for models and datasets using Git
- Documenting model assumptions and limitations
- Ensuring reproducibility of AI detection results
- Handling model updates with zero downtime
- Creating rollback procedures for failed deployments
- Scaling AI systems across large enterprise environments
- Optimising inference speed for real-time detection
Module 13: Ethical Considerations and AI Governance in Security - Understanding bias in AI models and its security implications
- Avoiding discriminatory access controls based on flawed data
- Ensuring transparency in automated decision-making
- Right to explanation in AI-driven security actions
- Compliance with GDPR, CCPA, and other privacy regulations
- Data minimisation principles in AI training
- Auditability of AI decisions for forensic review
- Establishing AI ethics review boards in security teams
- Preventing weaponisation of defensive AI systems
- Balancing security and privacy in employee monitoring
- Documenting model provenance and training data sources
- Third-party model risk assessment and validation
- Securing the AI pipeline from adversarial attacks
- Protecting models from evasion, poisoning, and reverse engineering
- Building trust in AI-augmented security operations
Module 14: Hands-On Capstone Project: Build Your Own AI Threat Detector - Defining a real-world use case for AI detection
- Selecting appropriate data sources and format
- Designing a detection pipeline from ingestion to alerting
- Preprocessing and cleaning raw security data
- Feature engineering for maximum predictive power
- Selecting and training an appropriate model type
- Evaluating performance using validation datasets
- Optimising thresholds for operational deployment
- Integrating the model with a logging or alerting system
- Creating a dashboard to visualise detection results
- Documenting the design, assumptions, and limitations
- Testing with simulated attack data for validation
- Writing a professional report of findings and recommendations
- Presenting results with confidence to technical and non-technical audiences
- Receiving expert feedback on your project implementation
Module 15: Certification, Career Advancement, and Next Steps - Preparing for your Certificate of Completion assessment
- Reviewing key concepts and practical applications
- Completing the final evaluation with confidence
- Receiving your official Certificate of Completion from The Art of Service
- Verifying your certificate with a unique identifier
- Adding your credential to LinkedIn and professional profiles
- Using the certification in job applications and promotions
- Networking with other AI-driven cybersecurity professionals
- Accessing exclusive alumni resources and updates
- Staying current with AI and security advancements
- Building a portfolio of AI security projects
- Transitioning into specialised roles: Threat Intelligence, AI Security Engineer, SOC Analyst
- Preparing for advanced certifications in AI and cybersecurity
- Contributing to open-source security AI projects
- Leading AI adoption initiatives within your organisation
- Connecting AI models to Splunk, IBM QRadar, and LogRhythm
- Exporting model scores to SIEM as custom fields
- Building correlation rules based on AI-derived risk scores
- Automating alert enrichment with external threat intelligence
- Using SOAR to execute AI-triggered response actions
- Orchestrating phishing quarantine and user notification
- Automating device isolation based on anomaly scores
- Creating dashboards to visualise AI detection performance
- Monitoring model drift and performance decay over time
- Retraining models using fresh data from the SIEM
- Setting up feedback loops for analyst-confirmed threats
- Improving model accuracy through human-in-the-loop learning
- Generating compliance reports with AI-assisted tagging
- Reducing analyst workload through intelligent prioritisation
- Documenting AI integration for audit and regulatory purposes
Module 11: Advanced AI Techniques for Zero-Day and APT Detection - Understanding Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) and stealth tactics
- Using AI to detect multi-stage attack campaigns
- Modelling attacker kill chains with machine learning
- Correlating low-fidelity alerts into high-confidence incidents
- Detecting stealthy C2 channels using low-and-slow techniques
- Analysing encrypted traffic without decryption using metadata
- Identifying adversary dwell time through behavioural analysis
- Using graph neural networks for attack path prediction
- Detecting lateral movement with graph traversal algorithms
- Mapping privilege escalation paths in complex environments
- Simulating attacker behaviour for defensive preparation
- Creating deception environments with AI-guided honeypots
- Using AI to adapt honeypot behaviour based on attacker actions
- Early detection of supply chain compromises
- Forecasting attack likelihood based on external threat trends
Module 12: Model Deployment, Maintenance, and Operationalisation - Choosing between cloud, on-premise, and hybrid deployment
- Using Docker and containers for model portability
- API integration for real-time scoring of security events
- Building automated data pipelines with Python and Bash
- Scheduling model retraining with cron and task runners
- Monitoring model health and performance metrics
- Detecting concept drift and data distribution shifts
- Setting up alerts for model degradation
- Version control for models and datasets using Git
- Documenting model assumptions and limitations
- Ensuring reproducibility of AI detection results
- Handling model updates with zero downtime
- Creating rollback procedures for failed deployments
- Scaling AI systems across large enterprise environments
- Optimising inference speed for real-time detection
Module 13: Ethical Considerations and AI Governance in Security - Understanding bias in AI models and its security implications
- Avoiding discriminatory access controls based on flawed data
- Ensuring transparency in automated decision-making
- Right to explanation in AI-driven security actions
- Compliance with GDPR, CCPA, and other privacy regulations
- Data minimisation principles in AI training
- Auditability of AI decisions for forensic review
- Establishing AI ethics review boards in security teams
- Preventing weaponisation of defensive AI systems
- Balancing security and privacy in employee monitoring
- Documenting model provenance and training data sources
- Third-party model risk assessment and validation
- Securing the AI pipeline from adversarial attacks
- Protecting models from evasion, poisoning, and reverse engineering
- Building trust in AI-augmented security operations
Module 14: Hands-On Capstone Project: Build Your Own AI Threat Detector - Defining a real-world use case for AI detection
- Selecting appropriate data sources and format
- Designing a detection pipeline from ingestion to alerting
- Preprocessing and cleaning raw security data
- Feature engineering for maximum predictive power
- Selecting and training an appropriate model type
- Evaluating performance using validation datasets
- Optimising thresholds for operational deployment
- Integrating the model with a logging or alerting system
- Creating a dashboard to visualise detection results
- Documenting the design, assumptions, and limitations
- Testing with simulated attack data for validation
- Writing a professional report of findings and recommendations
- Presenting results with confidence to technical and non-technical audiences
- Receiving expert feedback on your project implementation
Module 15: Certification, Career Advancement, and Next Steps - Preparing for your Certificate of Completion assessment
- Reviewing key concepts and practical applications
- Completing the final evaluation with confidence
- Receiving your official Certificate of Completion from The Art of Service
- Verifying your certificate with a unique identifier
- Adding your credential to LinkedIn and professional profiles
- Using the certification in job applications and promotions
- Networking with other AI-driven cybersecurity professionals
- Accessing exclusive alumni resources and updates
- Staying current with AI and security advancements
- Building a portfolio of AI security projects
- Transitioning into specialised roles: Threat Intelligence, AI Security Engineer, SOC Analyst
- Preparing for advanced certifications in AI and cybersecurity
- Contributing to open-source security AI projects
- Leading AI adoption initiatives within your organisation
- Choosing between cloud, on-premise, and hybrid deployment
- Using Docker and containers for model portability
- API integration for real-time scoring of security events
- Building automated data pipelines with Python and Bash
- Scheduling model retraining with cron and task runners
- Monitoring model health and performance metrics
- Detecting concept drift and data distribution shifts
- Setting up alerts for model degradation
- Version control for models and datasets using Git
- Documenting model assumptions and limitations
- Ensuring reproducibility of AI detection results
- Handling model updates with zero downtime
- Creating rollback procedures for failed deployments
- Scaling AI systems across large enterprise environments
- Optimising inference speed for real-time detection
Module 13: Ethical Considerations and AI Governance in Security - Understanding bias in AI models and its security implications
- Avoiding discriminatory access controls based on flawed data
- Ensuring transparency in automated decision-making
- Right to explanation in AI-driven security actions
- Compliance with GDPR, CCPA, and other privacy regulations
- Data minimisation principles in AI training
- Auditability of AI decisions for forensic review
- Establishing AI ethics review boards in security teams
- Preventing weaponisation of defensive AI systems
- Balancing security and privacy in employee monitoring
- Documenting model provenance and training data sources
- Third-party model risk assessment and validation
- Securing the AI pipeline from adversarial attacks
- Protecting models from evasion, poisoning, and reverse engineering
- Building trust in AI-augmented security operations
Module 14: Hands-On Capstone Project: Build Your Own AI Threat Detector - Defining a real-world use case for AI detection
- Selecting appropriate data sources and format
- Designing a detection pipeline from ingestion to alerting
- Preprocessing and cleaning raw security data
- Feature engineering for maximum predictive power
- Selecting and training an appropriate model type
- Evaluating performance using validation datasets
- Optimising thresholds for operational deployment
- Integrating the model with a logging or alerting system
- Creating a dashboard to visualise detection results
- Documenting the design, assumptions, and limitations
- Testing with simulated attack data for validation
- Writing a professional report of findings and recommendations
- Presenting results with confidence to technical and non-technical audiences
- Receiving expert feedback on your project implementation
Module 15: Certification, Career Advancement, and Next Steps - Preparing for your Certificate of Completion assessment
- Reviewing key concepts and practical applications
- Completing the final evaluation with confidence
- Receiving your official Certificate of Completion from The Art of Service
- Verifying your certificate with a unique identifier
- Adding your credential to LinkedIn and professional profiles
- Using the certification in job applications and promotions
- Networking with other AI-driven cybersecurity professionals
- Accessing exclusive alumni resources and updates
- Staying current with AI and security advancements
- Building a portfolio of AI security projects
- Transitioning into specialised roles: Threat Intelligence, AI Security Engineer, SOC Analyst
- Preparing for advanced certifications in AI and cybersecurity
- Contributing to open-source security AI projects
- Leading AI adoption initiatives within your organisation
- Defining a real-world use case for AI detection
- Selecting appropriate data sources and format
- Designing a detection pipeline from ingestion to alerting
- Preprocessing and cleaning raw security data
- Feature engineering for maximum predictive power
- Selecting and training an appropriate model type
- Evaluating performance using validation datasets
- Optimising thresholds for operational deployment
- Integrating the model with a logging or alerting system
- Creating a dashboard to visualise detection results
- Documenting the design, assumptions, and limitations
- Testing with simulated attack data for validation
- Writing a professional report of findings and recommendations
- Presenting results with confidence to technical and non-technical audiences
- Receiving expert feedback on your project implementation