Course Overview
AI+ Ethical Hacker Practitioner™ equips cybersecurity professionals with practical skills to apply AI across ethical hacking, penetration testing, vulnerability management, threat hunting, SOC operations, and incident response. Through instructor-led learning, hands-on activities, and an end-to-end capstone, participants explore AI-assisted security testing, LLM and RAG security, adversarial AI, cloud and identity security, and governance to identify threats faster, strengthen defenses, and use AI responsibly in cybersecurity operations.
Who should attend
- IT Professional
- Security Analyst
Prerequisites
Required:
- Knowledge of Python, Java, C++,etc for automation and scripting.
- Understanding of networking protocols, subnetting, firewalls, and routing.
- Familiarity with fundamental cybersecurity concepts, including encryption, authentication, access controls, and security protocols.
- Proficiency in using Windows and Linux operating systems.
- Understanding of machine learning concepts, algorithms, and basic implementation.
- Understanding of web technologies, including HTTP/HTTPS protocols, and web servers.
Recommended: AI+ Everyone Fundamentals™ (AIEV) or AI+ Executive Fundamentals™ (AIE)
Course Objectives
- Explain core cybersecurity, ethical hacking, networking, Linux, and AI security fundamentals
- Apply AI to reconnaissance, enumeration, attack-surface mapping, and vulnerability analysis
- Understand AI-assisted web, API, password, cloud, container, and penetration testing techniques
- Identify security risks across LLMs, RAG systems, prompt injection, and AI agents
- Apply machine learning concepts to cybersecurity and adversarial AI scenarios
- Use AI to enhance threat hunting, detection engineering, SOC operations, and threat intelligence
- Apply AI-assisted approaches to incident response and digital forensic investigations
- Understand Zero Trust, IAM, PAM, non-human identity, cloud, and AI agent security controls
- Apply AI governance, risk, privacy, compliance, ethics, and responsible disclosure principles
- Integrate offensive and defensive security practices through an end-to-end AI-assisted ethical hacking engagement