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AI Runtime Defense

Defend agentic systems in motion.

This program teaches teams how to operate runtime defense as an engineering discipline. The focus is not abstract policy, it is real-time control design, incident handling, and the safety layers required when agents can act on tools, data, and downstream systems.

Course profile
Duration: 8 hours
Format: Self-paced or cohort with guided labs
Video: 4 hours of guided lessons
Labs: 3 labs, 3 hours
Credential: Practitioner certificate
Included
  • Runtime defense design workbook
  • Classifier policy examples
  • Incident triage scenarios
  • Instructor-reviewed lab submissions
Who this is for
  • AI security engineers
  • Platform engineers responsible for agent execution environments
  • SOC and incident-response practitioners supporting AI workloads
Prerequisites
  • AI Security Foundations or equivalent architectural knowledge
  • Comfort with policy enforcement and security operations concepts
Outcomes

By the end, your team can do the work.

01Design and tune layered defenses for prompt injection and context abuse
02Define output filtering policy for sensitive classes and workflow boundaries
03Apply MCP scope policy and action validation to agent execution
04Run AI runtime incident triage with useful audit trails and escalation logic
Detailed syllabus

3 modules, with lesson-by-lesson structure.

01

Module 1, Input-side defense

Build control logic for the earliest point in the attack chain.

Video21 min
Prompt-injection families

How attacks vary across direct instructions, retrieved context, and tool outputs.

Video19 min
Classifier ensembles and guardrails

Where statistical and rule-based controls help most.

Lab50 min
Injection defense lab

Configure layered defenses for a sample agent workflow.

02

Module 2, Output and action controls

Move from detection to containment and safe execution.

Video18 min
Output filtering and sensitive classes

Preventing unsafe disclosures and downstream unsafe use.

Video20 min
Action validation and MCP scope policy

Constraining what agents can actually do in production.

Lab55 min
Scope policy lab

Define and validate per-agent access rules for an enterprise topology.

03

Module 3, Operations and incident response

Make runtime defense operationally sustainable for the teams that own it.

Reading14 min
SOC integration and audit trails

What observability and evidence patterns matter in runtime defense.

Workshop40 min
Incident triage workshop

Review attack sequences and decide response actions under time pressure.

Assessment40 min
Runtime defense capstone

Operate a simulated runtime incident from first alert to decision log.

Labs and assessment
Assessment model
  • Policy design quiz
  • Prompt-injection and output filtering lab
  • Runtime incident simulation
Tools and artifacts
  • Prompt-injection examples
  • Scope policy graph
  • SOC incident pack
Enterprise fit
Practitioner certificate

Built for teams running agentic workflows in production who need a concrete security operating model around tools, prompts, policies, and incident response.

Move from interest to enrollment.

Recommended next steps after this course include ai-compliance.