Artificial Intelligence (AI) Advantage: Elevating Cyber Defense

This 8-hour training track provides practical knowledge about how to leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance cyber security defense. It emphasizes that understanding and utilizing AI is a necessity in today's rapidly evolving threat landscape. Participants explore use cases that focus on the improvements and efficiencies AI can deliver, demonstrating how AI can be a critical ally for all cyber security professionals, from front-line defenders to cyber threat intelligence (CTI) analysts.

Using industry standard tools, this track demonstrates the real-world applications of AI for cyber defenders, showcasing how it can automate repetitive tasks, analyze vast datasets for hidden threats, and provide insights that would be impossible for a human analyst to complete in a reasonable timeframe. The track is divided into 3 courses, each approximately 2-3 hours in length:

1. Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (AI)
2. Optimizing Common Intelligence Tasks
3. Improving Complex Defender Problems

After completing this course, participants should be able to:

• Explain the difference between AI, GenAI, Machine Learning (ML), and Large Language Models (LLMs).
• Identify the strengths and weaknesses of prompt engineering, as well as how to use it more effectively.
• Use Google's powerful suite of AI tools such as Gemini, NotebookLM, and Colab.
• Recognize some of the risks of using AI and LLMs in your organization.
• Describe the basic operations of using AI to improve several cyber defender tasks, including:
• Improving internal collection techniques
• Collation and aggregation of intelligence feeds
• IOC consumption, extraction, and analysis
• Generation of intelligence requirements to drive downstream intelligence activities
• Intelligence outcomes including research, writing, and summarizing
• Preliminary malware analysis
• Identification of vulnerabilities
• Use of AI user agents to execute repeatable intelligence processes

This course was designed by cyber security professionals for cyber security professionals, from front-line defense to cyber threat intelligence (CTI) analysts. The track is specifically designed for those who wish to use AI to generate immediate efficiencies within their current or planned work processes.

On-demand training

Eight hours

Participants should bring their own laptop computer with the latest browser of choice and the ability to connect to the internet. Participants do not require access to the tools demonstrated in this track; however, access to the tools will significantly improve the learning experience and knowledge retention.