AI Cyber Defense Strategy and Validation Course
At a glance
- Duration
- 5 days
- Format
- Classroom
- Cities
- Casablanca, Amsterdam, London, Barcelona, Cape town, Muscat and more
- Next session
- 12 – 16 October 2026, Casablanca
- Average fee
- 5,800 €
Overview
AI-Assisted Cyber Defense Strategy and Validation Course is a five-day foundation course for security operations analysts, cyber defense teams, incident responders, threat hunters, security engineers, and risk specialists, who leave with an AI-Assisted Cyber Defense Strategy and Validation Plan. Participants map threats, select behavior and anomaly signals, design detection logic, prioritize alerts, validate findings, connect response playbooks, test adversarial scenarios, govern AI risks, and measure defense performance. Agile Leaders Training Center provides training in AI-assisted cyber defense strategy and validation.
Who Should Attend
- Security operations teams responsible for monitoring and alert decisions
- Cyber defense teams responsible for detection strategy and controls
- Incident responders responsible for validation and containment actions
- Threat hunters responsible for hypotheses and evidence gathering
- Security engineers responsible for detection integration and testing
- Risk specialists responsible for model and defense assurance
The course assumes participants contribute to security operations, cyber defense, response, hunting, engineering, or assurance and leaves out programming AI models, offensive exploitation, product configuration, non-technical board governance, and certification preparation.
Departments and Industries
The course supports AI-assisted cyber defense across security operations and technology-dependent organizations.
- Security operations and cyber defense functions
- Incident response and threat-hunting teams
- Technology, cloud, and digital service organizations
- Financial, healthcare, and professional service organizations
- Energy, manufacturing, and critical infrastructure organizations
- Government, education, and research organizations
Learning Objectives
By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
- Apply threat intelligence to AI-assisted defense priorities
- Analyze behavior, anomaly, and contextual signals
- Build detection hypotheses, alert logic, and triage criteria
- Evaluate findings through human validation and response playbooks
- Use adversarial testing and model-risk controls
- Build an AI-Assisted Cyber Defense Strategy and Validation Plan
Course Agenda
Day 1: Threat Context and Defense Scope
- Cyber Defense Mission and Scope Canvas
- Threat Actor, Asset, and Impact Map
- MITRE ATT&CK and ATLAS Alignment Sheet
- AI-Assisted Defense Use-Case Matrix
- Defense Requirement and Constraint Register
Day 2: Signals and Detection Engineering
- Threat Intelligence and Signal Inventory
- Behavior and Anomaly Detection Hypothesis
- Data Provenance and Quality Checklist
- Detection Rule and Feature Design Card
- Coverage, Gap, and Blind-Spot Map
Day 3: Alert Triage and Response
- Alert Confidence and Priority Matrix
- Human Validation and Evidence Checklist
- False-Positive and Missed-Detection Register
- Response Playbook Decision Tree
- Detection-to-Response Feedback Loop
Day 4: Adversarial Validation and Assurance
- AI Threat Scenario and Attack-Path Map
- Adversarial Test and Emulation Plan
- Model Evasion, Poisoning, and Manipulation Review
- AI Defense Risk and Control Register
- Defense Performance and Drift Scorecard
Day 5: Cyber Defense Strategy Practice
- Suggested Exercise: Map Threats and Defense Priorities
- Suggested Exercise: Design Signals and Detection Logic
- Suggested Exercise: Triage Alerts and Select Responses
- Suggested Exercise: Validate Defenses with Adversarial Scenarios
- Capstone Exercise: AI-Assisted Cyber Defense Strategy and Validation Plan
Practical Exercises
The course uses suggested activities that turn threat evidence into testable AI-assisted defense decisions.
- Suggested activity: map threat actors, assets, impacts, tactics, techniques, use cases, requirements, and defense constraints
- Suggested activity: define behavior and anomaly hypotheses, data sources, detection features, coverage, gaps, and blind spots
- Suggested activity: prioritize alerts, validate evidence, record false positives and missed detections, and connect response actions
- Suggested activity: build adversarial scenarios, test controls, record model risks, and define performance and drift measures
FAQs
Who suits AI-assisted cyber defense strategy training?
AI-assisted cyber defense strategy training suits security operations, cyber defense, incident response, threat hunting, engineering, and assurance teams. It assumes cybersecurity operations experience and requires no AI-model programming.
How does AI-assisted cyber defense differ from non-technical cyber-risk training?
AI-assisted cyber defense focuses on threat signals, detection engineering, alert triage, response playbooks, adversarial testing, and defense metrics. Non-technical cyber-risk training focuses on enterprise exposure, appetite, critical operations, oversight, and board decisions.
How can AI support cyber threat detection?
AI can support cyber threat detection by organizing intelligence, finding behavioral and anomaly patterns, prioritizing alerts, and connecting related evidence. Analysts remain responsible for context, validation, escalation, and response decisions.
Why should AI-assisted cyber defenses be tested adversarially?
Adversarial testing examines how threats may evade, manipulate, poison, or exploit AI-enabled defenses. It helps teams identify attack paths, blind spots, control weaknesses, performance limits, and required human safeguards.
What belongs in an AI-Assisted Cyber Defense Strategy and Validation Plan?
The plan includes mission, threats, assets, signals, detection hypotheses, alert priorities, validation, response playbooks, attack scenarios, tests, model-risk controls, performance measures, drift monitoring, owners, and improvement actions.
Conclusion
Participants take back an AI-Assisted Cyber Defense Strategy and Validation Plan connecting threat evidence, detection, response, testing, and assurance. The plan makes hypotheses, coverage, alert decisions, model risks, performance, and improvement ownership visible across teams. It supports traceable defense design and repeatable validation as threats and signals change.
credits: 5 credit per day
Course Mode: full-time
Provider: Agile Leaders Training Center
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Events for this Course
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Casablanca 12 – 16 October 2026
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Amsterdam 12 – 16 October 2026
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London 19 – 23 October 2026
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Barcelona 26 – 30 October 2026
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Cape town 1 – 5 November 2026
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Muscat 8 – 12 November 2026
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Amman 15 – 19 November 2026
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Dubai 16 – 20 November 2026
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Paris 23 – 27 November 2026
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Zoom 30 November – 4 December 2026
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Abu Dhabi 30 November – 4 December 2026
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Rome 7 – 11 December 2026
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Tashkent 13 – 17 December 2026
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Jakarta 14 – 18 December 2026
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Cairo 21 – 25 December 2026
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Amsterdam 21 – 25 December 2026
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Kuala Lumpur 28 December 2026 – 1 January 2027
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Tokyo 4 – 8 January 2027
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New York 4 – 8 January 2027
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Tbilisi 11 – 15 January 2027
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Dubai 18 – 22 January 2027
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Frankfurt 18 – 22 January 2027
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Chicago 24 – 28 January 2027
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Langkawi 31 January – 4 February 2027
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Trabzon 7 – 11 February 2027
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Berlin 8 – 12 February 2027
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London 15 – 19 February 2027
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Geneva 21 – 25 February 2027
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Milan 1 – 5 March 2027
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Lisbon 1 – 5 March 2027
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Manama 7 – 11 March 2027
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Zanzibar 14 – 18 March 2027
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Athens 22 – 26 March 2027
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Accra 28 March – 1 April 2027
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Abu Dhabi 29 March – 2 April 2027
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Sharm El-Sheikh 5 – 9 April 2027
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Johannesburg 11 – 15 April 2027
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Porto 12 – 16 April 2027
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Istanbul 19 – 23 April 2027
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Vienna 26 – 30 April 2027
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Madrid 3 – 7 May 2027
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Doha 9 – 13 May 2027
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Nice 10 – 14 May 2027
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Amsterdam 17 – 21 May 2027
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London 24 – 28 May 2027
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Abu Dhabi 24 – 28 May 2027
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Bali 30 May – 3 June 2027
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Seoul 31 May – 4 June 2027
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Milan 7 – 11 June 2027
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San Diego 14 – 18 June 2027
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Istanbul 21 – 25 June 2027
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Barcelona 28 June – 2 July 2027
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Dubai 5 – 9 July 2027
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Madrid 5 – 9 July 2027
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Phuket 11 – 15 July 2027
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Singapore 12 – 16 July 2027
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Bangkok 18 – 22 July 2027
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Manama 25 – 29 July 2027
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Montreux 2 – 6 August 2027
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Riyadh 8 – 12 August 2027
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Vienna 9 – 13 August 2027
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Baku 16 – 20 August 2027
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Abu Dhabi 16 – 20 August 2027
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Kuala Lumpur 23 – 27 August 2027
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Toronto 29 August – 2 September 2027
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London 30 August – 3 September 2027
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Cairo 6 – 10 September 2027
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Prague 6 – 10 September 2027
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Al Jubail 12 – 16 September 2027
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Munich 13 – 17 September 2027
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Kuwait 19 – 23 September 2027
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Dubai 20 – 24 September 2027
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Rome 27 September – 1 October 2027
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Paris 4 – 8 October 2027
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Nairobi 10 – 14 October 2027
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Marbella 10 – 14 October 2027
| Image | Location | Dates | Duration | Mode | Price | Actions |
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Casablanca |
Week 42, 2026 12 – 16 October 2026 |
5 Days | Onsite | €4,100 | |
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Amsterdam |
Week 42, 2026 12 – 16 October 2026 |
5 Days | Onsite | €5,700 | |
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London |
Week 43, 2026 19 – 23 October 2026 |
5 Days | Onsite | €5,700 | |
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Barcelona |
Week 44, 2026 26 – 30 October 2026 |
5 Days | Onsite | €5,700 | |
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Cape town |
Week 44, 2026 1 – 5 November 2026 |
5 Days | Onsite | €4,500 | |
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Muscat |
Week 45, 2026 8 – 12 November 2026 |
5 Days | Onsite | €5,700 | |
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Amman |
Week 46, 2026 15 – 19 November 2026 |
5 Days | Onsite | €4,100 | |
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Dubai |
Week 47, 2026 16 – 20 November 2026 |
5 Days | Onsite | €4,500 | |
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Paris |
Week 48, 2026 23 – 27 November 2026 |
5 Days | Onsite | €5,700 | |
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Zoom |
Week 49, 2026 30 November – 4 December 2026 |
5 Days | Online | €1,500 | |
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Abu Dhabi |
Week 49, 2026 30 November – 4 December 2026 |
5 Days | Onsite | €4,700 | |
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Rome |
Week 50, 2026 7 – 11 December 2026 |
5 Days | Onsite | €5,700 | |
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Tashkent |
Week 50, 2026 13 – 17 December 2026 |
5 Days | Onsite | €4,500 | |
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Jakarta |
Week 51, 2026 14 – 18 December 2026 |
5 Days | Onsite | €5,700 | |
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Cairo |
Week 52, 2026 21 – 25 December 2026 |
5 Days | Onsite | €4,100 | |
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Amsterdam |
Week 52, 2026 21 – 25 December 2026 |
5 Days | Onsite | €5,700 | |
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Kuala Lumpur |
Week 53, 2026 28 December 2026 – 1 January 2027 |
5 Days | Onsite | €5,200 | |
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Tokyo |
Week 01, 2027 4 – 8 January 2027 |
5 Days | Onsite | €10,000 | |
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New York |
Week 01, 2027 4 – 8 January 2027 |
5 Days | Onsite | €12,000 | |
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Tbilisi |
Week 02, 2027 11 – 15 January 2027 |
5 Days | Onsite | €5,000 |
Frequently asked questions
What does this course cover?
OverviewAI-Assisted Cyber Defense Strategy and Validation Course is a five-day foundation course for security operations analysts, cyber defense teams, incident responders, threat hunters, security engineers, and risk specialists, who leave with an AI-Assisted Cyber Defense Strategy and Validation Plan. Participants map threats, select behavior and anomal…
Are training dates available?
Yes. Available dates and destinations are listed in the course dates section on this page.
How can I register?
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