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Certifications

Prove your team can defend what they're building — not just describe it.

Instructor-led certification programs that end in a hands-on capstone project and a proctored exam. Built for teams shipping AI-powered products who can't afford to learn AI security the hard way — in production, after a breach.
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Why does your development team need security certifications?

48%
of code in Copilot-enabled files is now AI-generated
will stop doing business with a brand following a data breach.
1.9×
more likely that AI-generated code introduces a vulnerability vs. human code
CodeRabbit Research, 2025
83%
of orgs planned agentic AI deployments — only 29% felt ready to do it securely
Cisco, 2025
40%
of enterprise apps will embed task-specific AI agents by end of 2026
Gartner, 2025
~20M
GitHub Copilot users; 90% of the Fortune 100 have adopted it
GitHub, 2025–26
<25%
of developers scan AI-generated code before using it
GitHub, 2025

The certification pathway, end to end

Stage 1

Learn
Self-paced or live modules; every module ends in a graded formative lab

Stage 2

Gate
Pass all domain formative checks to unlock the exam (mastery gate)

Stage 3

Knowledge exam
Proctored MCQ/scenario block – 20% weight

Stage 4

Challenge exam
Randomized live lab environments, time-boxed – 40% weight

Stage 5

Capstone + Defense
Times in-exam build and recorded oral defense – 40% weight

Stage 6

Credential
Verified badge, 24-month validity, CPE-bearing

Why enterprises are certifying their teams now

AI adoption inside the SDLC has outpaced every existing security program.
Three things are true at once for most engineering orgs right now:

01

Developers are shipping LLM features faster than security can review them.
Prompt handling, RAG pipelines, and model output are new code paths with no established secure-coding muscle memory on the team.

02

"AI security awareness" training doesn't hold up under an audit or an incident.
A slide deck and a quiz don't prove anyone can actually secure an agent, an LLM integration, or a CI/CD pipeline — only building and defending one does.

03

The agentic wave changes the attack surface again.
Autonomous agents, tool use, and multi-agent orchestration introduce failure modes (memory poisoning, tool misuse, unsafe delegation) that generic AppSec training was never built to cover.
Certification exists to close that gap with proof, not paperwork: a credential earned by shipping a real, working, secured deliverable under an instructor's eye — the same way you'd want any other production skill validated.

Certified Secure AI Developer

Building secure software with AI coding agents, "Organizations certify the people who defend AI. We certify the people who build it."
Nearly all your developers are using AI-assisted coding tools to write code at scale, but nearly 50% of the code generated by our AI-assisted coding tools is vulnerable. Developers expose secrets and so on and so forth on all these things. Your developers are not building secure apps or securely designed applications. How do you solve it?

Developers are told to "be careful with AI security" with no concrete definition of what that means in their own pull requests. Prompt injection, unsafe output handling, and RAG data leakage don't show up in a standard SAST scan, so vulnerable AI features regularly ship clean through existing pipelines. Security teams end up reviewing LLM-integrated code manually, one PR at a time, because there's no baseline of secure coding skill to lean on.This certification gives engineering leaders a way to verify, not assume, that developers can write secure code around prompts, retrieval, and model output before those features reach production.
Ideal for
Developer
AI Engineer
Full-Stack Engineer
Curriculum highlights
Agentic Coding Foundations & Threat Modeling
Spec-Driven Development as a Security Control
Encoding Standards & Paved Roads
Secrets, Permissions & Blast Radius
Hooks & Policy-as-Code in the Agent Loop
AI Code Security in the SDLC & Rollout
Signature lab
End-to-end secure agentic pipeline — push vulnerable AI code through and observe the defense-in-depth.
Assessed by
End-to-end secure agentic pipeline — push vulnerable AI code through and observe the defense-in-depth.
Instructors were well prepared, thorough and passionate. They covered the material well and were very helpful when needed
Security Architect,
Black Hat 2026 Attendee
Highly technical and thorough proof of concept labs that showed real-world applicability and I can immediately get a sense of how I can apply these techniques in my own AppSec program.Loved the course and very glad it was so technical, detailed, and very well prepared. The coverage of various frameworks is impressive.
Senior Developer,
Black Hat 2026 Attendee
Excellent course, I’ve been to several courses at Black Hat and this is for sure in the top 3. Keep doing what you’re doing!
DevSecOps Lead,
BlackHat USA 2026 Attendee

Certified Secure AI Agent Developer

Building AI agents that are secure by default
"Build agents you'd let touch production." For developers and engineers shipping agents, MCP servers, RAG systems, and skills
Autonomous and tool-using agents are being built and deployed faster than teams can reason about what happens when one is manipulated. Memory poisoning, unsafe tool invocation, and unclear trust boundaries between agents aren't covered by traditional AppSec or even standard LLM security training — most engineers building agents today have never been shown how one actually gets exploited.

An agent that can take autonomous action is a new class of production risk: it doesn't just return an answer, it does things. Enterprises adopting agentic AI need engineers who understand agent architecture well enough to secure it — least-privilege tool access, sandboxing, safe multi-agent orchestration — before an agent is given real permissions in a real system.
Ideal for
AI Engineer
Agent Developer
Security Engineer
Curriculum highlights
LLM & Agent Fundamentals + Prompt Injection
OWASP Agentic Top 10 — Attack & Defend
Agent Identity, Access & Non-Human IAM
Memory, Context & Retrieval Security
MCP & the Agent Supply Chain
Agent Secrets & Runtime Containment
Signature labs
Secretless agent; agent execution sandboxing; secure-by-default agent clinic.
Assessed by
Challenge A4 + Capstone (the capstone is a hardened secure-by-default agent).

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