AI-Powered Cybersecurity for Leaders
Spearhead innovative strategies to more efficiently and effectively safeguard your business.
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At a Glance
- Enrollment:
- Open Enrollment
- Length:
- 2 Weeks
- Format:
- Online
- Investment:
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$2,800
Upcoming Dates
This course, delivered in a live, executive format that maximizes your time with your instructor and peers, is designed for decision-makers to think critically and strategically about adopting AI for cybersecurity within their organizations.
Develop the knowledge and skills you need to ask the right questions to develop solutions that are truly effective at meeting your organization's needs without creating new, unmanaged risks.
In this course, you will learn about how AI works and its extraordinary potential for cybersecurity. You will discover what it truly takes to deploy AI tools for cybersecurity in your business, including how to mitigate potential dangers to privacy and security that adopting any AI solution may introduce. You will also explore the future of the field and develop the knowledge you need today to remain competitive tomorrow, even as organizations change, technologies evolve, and new threats emerge.
Designed For
This course is an excellent fit for senior managers, executives, and board members tasked with spearheading AI integration within their organizations, as well as professionals involved in digital transformation initiatives.
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Discover how UChicago's AI-Powered Cybersecurity for Leaders course can help your teams adapt to new and evolving threats. Group rates are available.
Enroll TodayAI-Powered Cybersecurity for Leaders Curriculum
After completing the course, you will be able to:
- Explain the fundamental principles and the state of the fields of AI, machine learning, and cybersecurity.
- Articulate common cybersecurity threats and vulnerabilities and different mitigation strategies.
- Identify key applications of AI and machine learning to meet cybersecurity challenges.
- Assess and manage potential risks or hazards associated with AI adoption.
- Integrate consideration of AI into developing business requirements and cybersecurity controls.
- Explain and develop strategies to take advantage of the disruptions AI brings to cybersecurity.
Models You Will Explore
- ChatGPT
- Google Bard
- Llama
Live Online AI-Powered Cybersecurity for Leaders Course Format
- Two weeks in length
- Four, ninety-minute live sessions
- Supplementary self-paced asynchronous content
Live Session Topics
Our first session helps you become familiar with the language of AI and machine learning. We will examine the latest developments—both the hype and the reality—and describe the real value that AI can provide for your organization. Next, we will survey the current AI landscape and general trends that led there. We will formulate practical questions about data provenance, reliability, and motivations. Finally, you will explore the essential resources and teams you and your organization need to adopt AI effectively.
This session begins by identifying the most common types of cybersecurity vulnerabilities. Then, we will distinguish between AI and conventional solutions for managing cyber risk. We will explain the major possibilities of AI applications for cybersecurity, including pattern and anomaly detection. We will also develop criteria for ensuring actionable outcomes from AI tools.
Our third session explores the factors that can impact rolling out and scaling AI-powered cybersecurity solutions. We will identify critical landmines in implementations and develop mitigation strategies, including those to address biases, privacy, and hallucinations. The session also assesses the resources involved in implementing and scaling a solution, such as energy and computational capacity requirements. Finally, you will develop metrics for success and ask incisive questions of implementation teams to assess progress.
Here, we will describe the major breakthroughs in AI that may affect organizations’ cybersecurity in the short to medium term. We will develop a framework for monitoring and assessing advances in AI-powered cybersecurity generally—both the new affordances they may offer and the new risks they may introduce. You will also explore how emerging forms of AI-powered cybersecurity may transform organizations’ workforces.
Earn a Credential in AI-Powered Cybersecurity
After successful completion of this course, participants will receive credentials certified by the University of Chicago including a digital badge, to recognize their achievement.
Meet Your Instructor
Our highly trained instructors are courageous thinkers and passionate leaders who leverage years of industry expertise and up-to-date knowledge of terminology, tools, and trends to deliver an unparalleled learning experience. Through their rigorous discourse, cross-disciplinary collaboration, and field-shaping contributions, they create practical solutions and pioneering innovations that enrich our world.
This instructor teaches this course regularly. Please speak to your enrollment advisor if you wish to know who the current teacher is.
Benjamin Blakely, PhD
Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity Intelligence Researcher at Argonne National Laboratory
Benjamin Blakely leads Argonne National Laboratory’s Applied Research group in the Strategic Security Sciences division. He has over twenty years of operations, research, and teaching experience in the private, public, and education sectors.
Blakely earned his PhD and BSc degrees from Iowa State...
AI-Driven Cybersecurity Industry Outlook
The promises of artificial intelligence (AI) for business include increased efficiencies and effectiveness—along with disruption across industries and domains. This holds especially true for cybersecurity and organizational risk management, where responsible AI deployment is pivotal. As AI technologies become integral to business models, an effective and innovative cybersecurity stance has turned into a competitive edge. Good cyber strategy has a cascading impact beyond any business’s four walls–customers, partners, vendors, and other stakeholders can all be impacted by a cyber incident.
The percentage of surveyed C-suite executives that say they are actively using generative AI business tools.
The position of generative AI among technologies most likely to impact business significantly.
The increase in shares of global English-language job postings related to AI technologies such as GPT or ChatGPT since November 2022.
Potential Career Paths in AI-Powered Cybersecurity
- AI Cybersecurity Analyst
- AI Cybersecurity Solutions Architect
- AI Cybersecurity Strategist
- AI Security Consultant
- AI Security Engineer
- AI Security Operations Specialist
- AI Threat Analyst
- AI-Driven Threat Intelligence Analyst
- Cyber AI Analyst
- Cybersecurity Data Scientist
- Deep Learning Cybersecurity Specialist
- Machine Learning Security Researcher
How Do I Get Started?
- Complete the form on the registration page
- Pay the tuition fee on our secure gateway
- Receive a welcome email with your login information for the virtual campus
- Gain access to the course content prior to the start date
Empower AI to Secure Your Business
Are you ready to take a leap forward and immerse yourself in a new learning experience? Enroll now and gain valuable knowledge and skills that will boost your career to the next level.
Offered by The University of Chicago's Professional Education
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