AI Security Practitioner Roadmap — Fortivance Academy
AISEC-PRAC · AI security track

AI Security Practitioner

The complete, ordered path from AI-threat basics to attacking and defending real AI systems — adversarial ML, LLM red-teaming and securing the model supply chain.

Career goal

Become the person who can break an AI system before an attacker does — and then harden it, across data, model and deployment.

Duration 15 weeks
Courses 7
Milestones 7
Credential Practitioner
The climb

Four levels, seven milestones, one destination.

From the AI threat landscape to hands-on red-teaming and a practitioner credential.

Foundation Threat literacy — 2 courses
Proficient Secure the pipeline — 2 courses
Mastery Attack & harden — 2 courses
Credential Certification-ready — 1 course
Orientation Start Foundation Basics Apply skills Proficient Mastery Hands-on Job-ready Credential Career launch AI Security Engineer 0 1 2 3 7
Your journey

The complete path, milestone by milestone.

7 milestones, each anchored to one course. Follow them in order — every step is built on the one before.

1
Foundation Weeks 1–2

Learn how AI gets attacked

Start with the landscape — poisoning, evasion, extraction, prompt injection — in plain language.

AI threat landscape Attack categories Real incidents
Course: How AI Systems Get Attacked · 1h 15m
2
Foundation Weeks 2–4

Understand AI risk fundamentals

Ground your security work in why AI systems fail and where governance and security meet.

AI failure modes Risk vocabulary Security vs governance
Course: AI Risk 101: Risks in Plain English · 1h 20m
3
Proficient Weeks 4–7

Secure the ML pipeline

Protect the whole lifecycle — training data, model artefacts and deployment — from tampering and theft.

Data integrity Model protection Supply chain
Course: Securing the ML Pipeline · 3h 30m · Labs
4
Proficient Weeks 7–9

Defend LLM applications

Learn the defensive patterns for LLM apps — input handling, guardrails and monitoring.

Prompt-injection defence Guardrails Output filtering
Course: Defending LLM Applications · 3h 15m · Labs
5
Mastery Weeks 9–12

Red-team an LLM app

The core skill. Probe, break and document weaknesses in a real LLM application.

Attack techniques Jailbreak testing Findings reports
Course: Red-Teaming LLM Applications · 4h 50m · Project
6
Mastery Weeks 12–14

Run an adversarial-ML capstone

Bring attack and defence together on a full system and produce a hardening report.

End-to-end assessment Mitigations Portfolio artefact
Course: AI Security Capstone · 4h 00m · Capstone
7
Credential Weeks 14–15

Get practitioner-ready

Consolidate into a certification-ready AI security practitioner finish.

Exam domains Scenario practice Mock exams
Course: AI Security Practitioner Prep · 6h 40m · Prep
Get the whole path in one bundle

Every course in this roadmap, bundled — and discounted.

You don't have to buy these 7 courses one by one. We've packaged the complete roadmap into a single bundle, so the entire journey comes at one discounted price.

★ Complete roadmap bundle

AI Security Engineer — Full Bundle

All 7 courses across the path, plus the capstone project — everything you need to finish, in one purchase.

  • How AI Systems Get Attacked
  • AI Risk 101: Risks in Plain English
  • Securing the ML Pipeline
  • Defending LLM Applications
  • Red-Teaming LLM Applications
  • AI Security Capstone
  • AI Security Practitioner Prep
Complete bundle price
₹16,999 if bought separately
₹11,499
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What you walk away with

Skills you can prove, roles you can target.

Skills you'll have

  • Map the AI-specific threat landscape
  • Secure training data, models and deployment
  • Defend LLM apps against prompt injection
  • Red-team an AI system end to end
  • Write an adversarial-ML hardening report

Roles this opens

  • AI Security Engineer
  • ML Security Specialist
  • AI Red-Team Engineer
  • Security Engineer (AI focus)
  • AI Security Consultant
Before you start

Common questions.

Do I need ML experience?

Basic familiarity with how models work helps, but the path starts with fundamentals and builds the security angle from there.

How long does it take?

About 15 weeks part-time, self-paced.

Is there hands-on work?

Yes — several milestones are labs and a full red-teaming project you can show in a portfolio.

Can I take individual courses instead?

Yes — all are in the catalog. The bundle is cheaper and adds the capstone.

Start the AI Security path today.

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