Use AI as a practical tool in your cyber defence. In three labs, you learn to prioritise vulnerabilities, develop detection rules and support incident response. You identify concrete applications for your security team.
Explore how AI can support your security team in three tasks. Combine vulnerability findings with system information and establish priorities. In detection engineering, develop and test a detection rule, improving it using false positives and missed events. For incident response, produce a situation briefing from reports and log data and prepare the next actions.
Write instructions for the AI and practise the workflows in a connected exercise case. Compare effort and output quality with work performed without AI, and decide how to use the results in your defence work. Keep your prioritised vulnerability assessment, tested detection rule and source-based incident briefing for further work.
In the case, prioritise a vulnerability on a public-facing service, test a detection rule against relevant and benign login events, and prepare a source-based incident briefing.
What you will work on
Use AI to analyse and prioritise vulnerability findings.
Develop and test an AI-assisted detection rule and improve it using the test results.
Use AI to prepare an incident briefing and identify the next actions.
You assess false positives and missed events and retest the rule.
Who it is for
Information security officers
Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs)
Cyber defence and incident response leads
Topics
AI as a cyber defence tool: selecting tasks and writing effective instructions
AI-assisted vulnerability analysis and prioritisation
Detection engineering: developing, testing and improving rules
Incident response: analysing reports and preparing situation briefings and actions
AI in your security team: benefits, effort and responsibilities
Your result
Your three lab outputs are a reasoned vulnerability prioritisation, a tested detection rule and a source-based incident briefing. They provide a basis for further work by your security team.
Prerequisites
Basic information security management knowledge and an understanding of vulnerabilities, log events and incident response processes. Knowledge of safe AI use and checking AI output is required. Necessary tools, access and any additional costs have yet to be determined.
Format and approach
Planned self-study seminar with three practical labs. You work with synthetic system data, logs and incident reports, compare your results with annotated examples and improve your solutions.
Planned learning time: To be confirmed; three practical labs
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