Offensive AI: Attack Tools and Techniques
Artificial intelligence is changing the offensive toolchain, and defenders need people who understand how. This offensive AI training in Toronto is written strictly for authorized red teams and the defenders who work alongside them.
You will see where AI genuinely accelerates an operation, from reconnaissance at scale to highly targeted social engineering, and just as importantly where its impact is overstated. All work is scoped, authorized, and confined to the academy's isolated lab.
- Duration
- 8 weeks
- Format
- Live online, instructor-led
- Prerequisites
- AI Security Principles and Practices: GenAI and LLM Defence
- Class size
- Capped at 12 learners
What you will be able to do
- Judge where AI meaningfully accelerates an offensive operation
- Use AI to speed reconnaissance and analysis within authorized scope
- Understand AI-assisted social engineering so you can defend against it
- Recognize inflated claims about AI-driven attacks
- Brief defenders on the offensive AI techniques that actually matter
- Keep AI-assisted testing lawful, scoped, and safe
Course outline
6 modules
- What AI changes and what it does not
- Authorization, scope, and legal limits
- Separating capability from hype
- The defender's reason to study this
What you need before you start
- You have completed AI Security Principles and Practices or equivalent
- You have offensive or strong defensive security experience
- You accept that all exercises are authorized and confined to the lab
- You are willing to challenge marketing claims with evidence
Who this course is for
- Authorized red team operators adapting to AI
- Blue teamers who must defend against AI-assisted attacks
- Threat intelligence analysts tracking AI-enabled adversaries
- Security leaders separating real AI threats from noise
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