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Generative AI Cybersecurity & Privacy for Leaders

Understand Generative AI Security & Best Practices. Learners will understand generative AI-specific security threats and vulnerabilities while mastering strategies to enhance organizational preparedness through advanced tabletop exercises and proactive cybersecurity planning.

Beginner Level
4 weeks to complete at 10 hours a week
Flexible Schedule

Dr. Jules White

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What You’ll Learn

Understand the unique risks posed by generative AI, including prompt injection, and deepfake technology, and learn strategies to address them.

Develop and implement advanced tabletop exercises using generative AI to improve organizational response to evolving cybersecurity threats.

Skills You’ll Gain

AI Personalization Incident Response Cybersecurity Generative AI Agents Expense Management Cyber Governance Crisis Management AI Security LLM Application Responsible AI Retrieval-Augmented Generation Prompt Patterns AI literacy AI Enablement AI powered creativity

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Are you ready to lead your organization into the future of cybersecurity while safeguarding privacy in an increasingly AI-driven world? This primer provides an essential foundation in generative AI, exploring its transformative potential and the specific cybersecurity and privacy risks it introduces. Learn to embrace AI’s capabilities while maintaining trust, compliance, and security in your organization.What You'll Learn: - Safeguard Organizational Privacy: This primer will help you understand the privacy implications of AI systems and the risks posed by data fusion across platforms. - Address Emerging AI-Specific Threats: Develop a clear understanding of vulnerabilities like prompt injection, deepfakes, AI-enhanced phishing, and adversarial text in AI deployments. - Build Confidence in AI Adoption: Gain the foundational tools and techniques to implement secure environments for AI development and responsible usage. Who Is This Course For? - Cybersecurity and Privacy Leaders: Seeking a primer to harness AI while preserving organizational integrity. - IT Professionals: Interested in responsibly implementing AI within technical infrastructures. Business Executives: Looking for a foundational understanding of AI integration without compromising compliance or ethics. - Policy Makers: Aspiring to shape legislation around AI and privacy with a deep technical primer. Why Take This Course? Generative AI offers unmatched opportunities to enhance security and privacy, but it also brings novel challenges. From adversarial risks to complex data privacy concerns, leaders need a clear and concise primer to navigate these complexities effectively. This course provides the essential knowledge and skills to balance innovation with protection. By the end, you’ll be empowered to lead AI initiatives that drive progress while mitigating the unique cybersecurity risks posed by generative AI. With this primer, you’ll confidently lay the groundwork for safe and responsible AI adoption.

Struggling to prepare your team for unexpected cybersecurity threats? Imagine having an AI partner that can help you build hyper-realistic tabletop scenarios, practice decision-making under pressure, and uncover blind spots—all while saving time and resources. This course will guide you on a journey to revolutionize your approach to cybersecurity training by integrating ChatGPT into your tabletop exercises, ensuring your organization is ready for the real game.What You'll Learn: Create Dynamic and Realistic Cybersecurity Scenarios: Use ChatGPT to design interactive scenarios with branching decision trees. Craft exercises that adapt to participants’ choices, pushing them to think critically about complex challenges while uncovering new angles of attack. Perform Individualized, Targeted Practice with Micro-Tabletops: Learn how to use ChatGPT to create "micro-tabletops," small-scale exercises that allow individual team members or small groups to focus on their specific responsibilities and tools. These targeted simulations enable frequent practice, iterative hardening of specific domains (e.g., Active Directory or Okta), and integration with broader team exercises to ensure overall organizational preparedness. Master the Flipped Interaction Pattern for Training: Discover how to let AI take the lead in tabletop facilitation. This unique approach allows ChatGPT to simulate evolving incidents, ask probing questions, and dynamically adapt based on your team’s responses—making every session a tailored learning experience. Inject Real-World Pressure into Your Scenarios: Learn how to add authentic tension to decision-making exercises. With ChatGPT, you can create scenarios that mimic the real-world ripple effects of cybersecurity breaches, such as regulatory deadlines, stakeholder complaints, or operational disruptions. Optimize Your Team’s Response Through Iterative Practice: Transform the way your organization practices cybersecurity. Generate instant feedback, identify critical gaps, and refine responses—all in a fraction of the time and cost of traditional tabletop methods. Build Collaborative Decision-Making Skills Across Departments: Train technical, legal, and communications teams to coordinate effectively during crises. Use ChatGPT to highlight each group’s unique pressure points, ensuring all stakeholders are prepared for their roles in an incident response. Who Is This Course For? Cybersecurity Professionals: Overwhelmed by the time and cost of creating tabletops? Learn to streamline the process with AI. IT and Security Teams: Want to simulate realistic, high-pressure incidents? Use ChatGPT to craft exercises that build confidence and capability. Business Leaders and Decision Makers: Need to ensure your organization is ready for the unexpected? Gain insights into how AI can enhance readiness. Educators and Facilitators: Interested in teaching cybersecurity skills interactively? Master tools and techniques to engage participants in novel and impactful ways. Why Take This Course? Cybersecurity breaches are inevitable, but unpreparedness doesn’t have to be. With ChatGPT, you can democratize access to high-quality training, creating customized, realistic exercises that challenge your team to respond effectively. Whether simulating a phishing attack, addressing regulatory fallout, or handling complex stakeholder dynamics, this course empowers you to enhance your incident response capabilities. Imagine transforming your tabletops into immersive learning experiences—without the time, cost, and complexity of traditional methods. By the end of this course, you’ll have the skills to use generative AI for designing, facilitating, and iterating on exercises that keep your team sharp and ready for anything. Join the growing number of professionals revolutionizing cybersecurity readiness with AI. Don’t get caught unprepared—enroll today and start building stronger defenses with ChatGPT!

ChatGPT and other large language models are going to be more important in your life and business than your smartphone, if you use them right. ChatGPT can tutor your child in math, generate a meal plan and recipes, write software applications for your business, help you improve your personal cybersecurity, and that is just in the first hour that you use it. This course will teach you how to be an expert user of these generative AI tools. The course will show amazing examples of how you can tap into these generative AI tools' emergent intelligence and reasoning, how you can use them to be more productive day to day, and give you insight into how they work.Large language models respond to instructions and questions posed by users in natural language statements, known as “prompts”. Although large language models will disrupt many fields, most users lack the skills to write effective prompts. Expert users, who understand how to write good prompts, are orders of magnitude more productive and can unlock significantly more creative uses for these tools. This course introduces students to the patterns and approaches for writing effective prompts for large language models. Anyone can take the course and the only required knowledge is basic computer usage skills, such as using a browser and accessing ChatGPT. Students will start with basic prompts and build towards writing sophisticated prompts to solve problems in any domain. By the end of the course, students will have strong prompt engineering skills and be capable of using large language models for a wide range of tasks in their job, business, personal life, and education, such as writing, summarization, game play, planning, simulation, and programming.

In the era of Generative AI, the demand for personalized and specialized Generative AI assistants is skyrocketing. Large language models like GPTs have demonstrated their remarkable capabilities, but what if you could harness their power to create custom AI assistants tailored to your specific needs? Welcome to the world of custom GPTs, where you can build intelligent systems that understand your domain, speak your language, and solve your unique challenges.This cutting-edge course will guide you through the exciting journey of creating and deploying custom GPTs that cater to diverse industries and applications. Imagine having a virtual assistant that can tackle complex legal document analysis, streamline supply chain logistics, or even assist in scientific research and hypothesis generation. The possibilities are endless! Throughout the course, you'll delve into the intricacies of building GPTs that can use your documents to answer questions, patterns to create amazing human and AI interaction, and methods for customizing the tone of your GPTs. You'll learn how to design and implement rigorous testing scenarios to ensure your AI assistant's accuracy, reliability, and human-like communication abilities. Prepare to be amazed as you explore real-world examples built around a GPT for Travel and Business Expense Management. The examples show how a GPT can help users book flights, hotels, and transportation while adhering to company policies and budgets. Additionally, the GPT can help streamline expense reporting and reimbursement processes, ensuring compliance and accuracy. Whether you're a business leader, entrepreneur, developer, or educator, this course will equip you with the skills to harness the transformative potential of custom GPTs. Unlock new realms of productivity, innovation, and personalized experiences by building AI assistants that truly understand and cater to your unique needs. Enroll now and join the forefront of AI revolution, where you'll learn to create intelligent systems that not only comprehend but also anticipate and exceed your expectations.