AI Cybersecurity Training Online — GAESP Workshop 2026
GAESP — the GenAI Expert Cybersecurity Professional workshop covering Generative AI and Agentic AI security for practitioners worldwide.
AI has moved from your product team's roadmap to your regulator's audit checklist. And it's no longer just LLMs — it's agents.
If you've been in cybersecurity for more than a few years, you've watched AI slide from a trade-press curiosity into a fixed board agenda item. The EU AI Act came into force in August 2025 with real security testing obligations for high-risk systems, US Executive Order 14110 pushed federal contractors to demonstrate AI security capability across the lifecycle, and the NIST AI Risk Management Framework has quietly become the reference structure that regulated industries use to organise all of it.
Then, through 2025 and 2026, something else happened. AI stopped being a conversation about chatbots. It became a conversation about agents — systems with memory, tool access, and the ability to reason across multiple steps. Systems that book meetings, write code, or send emails on your behalf. Every risk in the OWASP LLM Top 10 you already knew about gets sharper the moment the model can also act.
What none of these frameworks tell you is how to actually do any of it. How to test a customer-service LLM for prompt injection. How to test the internal agent your ops team has given calendar and email access to. How to detect model poisoning in a deployed ML pipeline, or excessive agency in a SOC assistant that's helping analysts. That gap between what regulators expect and what practitioners can actually do is why I built GAESP.
GAESP is 2 days of live, hands-on training for cybersecurity professionals who need to secure both Generative AI systems and Agentic AI systems. Sixteen hours, 13 modules, 30 seats per cohort. I teach every one myself. If you'd rather jump to your region for local regulatory context, the four regional pages are below.
"Three things worth walking through next: what the market is paying, what the regulators are asking for, and how the workshop is built around both."
AI security expertise commands a 40–60% salary premium and every regulated industry is hiring.
AI-capable cybersecurity professionals earn between 40% and 60% more than their non-AI-credentialled peers, according to industry data compiled through 2026. The premium is highest in financial services, healthcare, defence, and cloud-native technology firms.
AI security is one of the fastest-growing premium skill areas in cybersecurity. The gap between AI-capable and non-AI-capable practitioners is widening — not narrowing — as regulatory pressure grows and enterprise AI adoption accelerates.
Industry-wide figures reported by AI security compensation studies through Q2 2026. Cybernous does not publish student-specific salary outcomes; premium figures reflect market-level movement for AI-capable roles, not Cybernous graduates specifically.
"The premium tracks a regulatory shift that's happening simultaneously in every major market — and that's what makes this training worth the two days."
Four regulatory frameworks reshaping AI security in 2026.
AI governance has moved from voluntary alignment to enforced control across every major jurisdiction. The four frameworks below have the most direct impact on how organisations are hiring and testing AI security capability.
| Framework | AI security mandate |
|---|---|
| 🇪🇺 EU AI Act — in force August 2025 | Security testing required for high-risk AI systems · fundamental rights impact assessments · post-market monitoring |
| 🇺🇸 US EO 14110 on Safe and Secure AI | Federal contractors demonstrate AI security capability · NIST AI RMF alignment |
| 🌐 NIST AI Risk Management Framework | Reference structure for AI governance globally · adopted across regulated industries |
| 🌐 OWASP LLM Top 10 | Practitioner-level threat model for LLM-based systems · prompt injection, training data poisoning, model theft |
The underlying question is the same across every framework: who is technically qualified to test AI systems against modern threats? The GAESP workshop is built to produce the practitioners these frameworks describe.
Region-specific regulations are covered in the four regional pages — see Region selector below.
"Here's how I structured the workshop to prepare you for both the frameworks above and the hands-on work behind them."
Two days. Thirteen modules. Live, hands-on, and built around your day job.
The GAESP workshop runs as a live instructor-led cohort delivered online, limited to 30 seats per batch for high-quality interaction. Every session is hands-on with pre-configured AI lab environments — no local installation required.
Day 1 — AI Foundations, Threats & Attack Simulation
| # | Module | What you'll do |
|---|---|---|
| 01 | Introduction to Generative AI and Agentic AI for Cybersecurity | Understand how LLMs, transformers, and generative models work at a level useful for security decisions. Then move to agentic systems — how AI agents use tools, hold memory, and reason across multiple steps. |
| 02 | AI Threat Landscape (OWASP LLM Top 10 + Agentic Risks) | Deep-dive into all 10 OWASP LLM risks including excessive agency and tool abuse, with real 2025-2026 incidents. Then extend into agentic-specific risks: tool abuse, agent-to-agent injection, autonomous action escalation. |
| 03 | Setting Up Your AI Lab Environment | Configure a pre-built AI lab covering both LLM APIs and agent frameworks (LangChain, LangGraph, OpenAI Assistants, MCP). No local install required. |
| 04 | Simulating AI-based Attacks — Prompt Injection, Model Poisoning, Agentic Tool Abuse | Execute working prompt injection attacks against a live LLM, test indirect injection, run tool-abuse attacks against a tool-using agent, explore model poisoning through fine-tuning data manipulation. |
| 05 | Malware Detection Using AI | Build and evaluate an AI-based malware detection pipeline using classical ML and deep learning approaches. |
| 06 | Deepfake Detection Techniques | Understand deepfake generation techniques, run detection models against sample media, discuss operational deployment challenges. |
| 07 | Phishing Detection with AI | Build an AI-augmented phishing detection workflow — email header analysis, URL classification, and LLM-based content analysis. |
Day 2 — Automation, Red Teaming & GRC
| # | Module | What you'll do |
|---|---|---|
| 08 | Agentic SIEM — SOC Automation with AI Agents | Build a multi-step SOC agent that triages alerts, enriches with threat intel, and drafts case narratives. Cover LLM-augmented SIEM rules for log summarisation and anomaly explanation. |
| 09 | Security Testing with AI and AI Agents | Use AI to accelerate vulnerability discovery, exploit research, and secure code review. Extend into testing AI agents themselves — evaluating agent behaviour, tool-use safety, and unintended action potential. |
| 10 | AI-based Ethical Hacking (LLM + Agentic Systems) | Run an AI-assisted red team exercise covering reconnaissance, target profiling, LLM-based payload generation, and offensive use of autonomous agents for multi-step attacks. |
| 11 | AI in GRC — Governance, Risk & Compliance Automation | Automate control mapping, policy generation, audit evidence gathering, and compliance reporting for EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF, and US EO 14110. |
| 12 | AI Red Teaming (LLM + Agentic AI) | Structured red teaming methodology for both LLM-based systems and agentic AI systems. Build a repeatable red team playbook. |
| 13 | Capstone Exercise — Full AI Security Scenario | Full end-to-end capstone: a realistic organisational AI deployment scenario where you apply everything from the workshop — threat modelling, testing, red teaming, compliance sign-off. |
Know Your Coach
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“As a military veteran and cybersecurity professional with 29 years of experience, I've dedicated my life to learning and training.”
I've been in cybersecurity for 25 years — most of them in enterprise security architecture, governance, and training. I hold CISSP, CCSP, CISM, CISA, CRISC, and CPISI credentials. I've coached 5,000+ professionals across 40+ countries through Cybernous, provided 400+ ISC² endorsements (the highest count in India), and received the Best Mentor Award 2025 by REVA University. I teach every GAESP cohort personally.
— Manoj Sharma
Read my full profile →Every session is hands-on. By the end of Day 2, you'll have written prompts that detect phishing, built an AI-augmented SIEM rule, and run a red-team exercise against a live LLM — with me walking through each one alongside you.
"The regulatory context and the compensation picture look different in each region. Below are the four regional pages I've built to walk through each one."
Choose your region — four regional pages.
Regulatory drivers, salary ranges, and named employer patterns differ by region. Each of the four regional pages below walks through the country-specific picture in detail.
🌍 Gulf
UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman
UAE National AI Strategy 2031 · Saudi SDAIA AI Ethics Principles · DESC AI cybersecurity standards · Dubai as the regional AI adoption leader.
Read the Gulf page →🌏 APAC
Singapore, Malaysia
Singapore IMDA Model AI Governance Framework · MAS guidelines on AI in financial services · Malaysia AI Roadmap · financial services sector leadership.
Read the APAC page →🌎 Americas
USA, Canada
US Executive Order 14110 · NIST AI Risk Management Framework · Canadian AIDA proposal · SEC AI disclosure expectations · federal contractor requirements.
Read the Americas page →🇪🇺 Europe
UK, Germany, Netherlands, wider EU
EU AI Act (August 2025) · GDPR AI clauses · UK AI Regulation Bill · BSI AI guidance · the strongest regulatory driver globally.
Read the Europe page →"One thing worth being clear about before we get any further — who this workshop is actually for."
Six practitioner profiles the workshop is built for.
GAESP is designed for working cybersecurity professionals who need to apply AI capability to their existing role. If you fit one of the six profiles below, you're the intended audience.
SOC Analysts & DFIR Teams
You're already drowning in alerts. The Day 2 SIEM automation module gives you an AI-augmented triage workflow you can deploy against your existing SIEM within weeks.
Security Engineers & Architects
You're being asked to secure LLM-based systems your product team is deploying. Day 1's OWASP LLM Top 10 module and Day 2's AI red teaming give you the practitioner-level threat model.
GRC & Compliance Professionals
EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF, and US EO 14110 are landing on your desk. Day 2's GRC automation module walks through the compliance workflow with practical automation using LLMs.
Penetration Testers & Ethical Hackers
Adding AI to your offensive toolkit is table stakes for 2026. Day 2's AI-based ethical hacking and AI red teaming modules cover the offensive-side use cases.
IT & Network Security Administrators
You're the person asked "can we deploy Copilot safely?" Day 1's threat landscape and Day 2's GRC automation give you a defensible answer.
Career Changers & Tech Enthusiasts
You're moving into cybersecurity from an adjacent discipline. GAESP gives you a modern, AI-native entry point rather than a decade-old syllabus.
This workshop is for cybersecurity practitioners who need AI capability by Monday morning. If you're an ML engineer looking for deep AI security theory, this will feel too introductory. If you're a working practitioner with 2+ years of security experience, it's built for you.
"The word 'hands-on' gets used loosely in this market. Here's what you'll actually run through."
Eight practical scenarios from real 2025–2026 incidents.
Every scenario below is drawn from real incident patterns Cybernous has seen across cohorts. You'll run through each one hands-on during the workshop.
| # | Scenario | Type | Skills |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Prompt injection in a customer-facing chatbot | GenAI | OWASP LLM01 · Direct + indirect prompt injection · Detection engineering |
| 02 | Model poisoning through fine-tuning data | GenAI | OWASP LLM03 · Training data validation · Fine-tuning security |
| 03 | AI-augmented phishing detection at scale | GenAI | Detection engineering · False positive management · LLM integration |
| 04 | GRC automation for EU AI Act compliance | GenAI + Agentic | Compliance automation · EU AI Act Articles 9, 15, 17 · Evidence generation |
| 05 | Agentic tool abuse against an operations agent | Agentic | OWASP LLM08 (Excessive Agency) · Agent tool sandboxing · Runtime monitoring |
| 06 | Agentic SIEM assistant | Agentic | Agent design · SOC workflow · Human-in-the-loop safety |
| 07 | Agent-to-agent prompt injection | Agentic | Chained agent security · Trust boundary design · Output validation |
| 08 | AI red team against a live LLM and its agent wrapper | GenAI + Agentic | Red teaming methodology · Adversarial testing · Reporting |
These aren't hypothetical exercises. Every scenario is based on real incident patterns Cybernous has seen across cohorts — from Gulf banks and APAC fintechs to European regulated entities and US federal contractors.
"Worth a look at how GAESP sits against everything else on the market — which turns out to be not much."
What's on the market and where GAESP fits.
There is no direct equivalent to GAESP in the market as of 2026. Most AI training is aimed at ML engineers, and most cybersecurity training doesn't touch AI. GAESP sits deliberately in the gap.
| Type | Example providers | Audience | Format | Bridges AI + Cybersecurity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GAESP | Cybernous | Cybersecurity professionals | 2-day live workshop | ✅ Yes — GenAI + Agentic AI |
| Generic AI/ML courses | Coursera, Udemy, DeepLearning.AI | ML engineers, data scientists | Self-paced | ❌ Not security-focused |
| Traditional cybersecurity certs | ISC², EC-Council, CompTIA | Security professionals | Multi-week programmes | ❌ Not AI-focused |
| Vendor AI security workshops | AWS, Microsoft, Google | Vendor customers | 1-day product-specific | ⚠️ Product-tied, not framework-agnostic |
| University AI security programmes | Various academic institutions | Students, researchers | Semester-long | ✅ Academic, but not practitioner-fast |
The market has AI training and cybersecurity training — but almost nothing that bridges them for working practitioners. GAESP is the practitioner bridge, built for the security professional who needs to be AI-capable by Monday morning.
"What you walk away with after the two days."
Four deliverables · One workshop · $239
Everything below is included in the workshop fee. There are no add-ons or upsells.
GAESP Certificate
Cybernous-issued GenAI Expert Cybersecurity Professional certificate on completion. Proprietary Cybernous credential.
50+ AI Cybersecurity Prompts
The Magic Prompts Toolkit — 50+ tested prompts for threat intelligence, incident response, vulnerability assessment, compliance reporting, and red team scenario planning.
CISSP Success Toolkit
Included free — the full Cybernous CISSP preparation toolkit, valued separately.
90-day Recording Access
Full session recordings available for 90 days post-workshop for review, revision, and team briefings.
Workshop fee: $239 — book your seat at the GAESP course page.
"The most common questions I get about all of this, answered below."
Common questions about AI cybersecurity training online.
Where can I get AI cybersecurity training online in 2026?
Cybernous delivers the GAESP workshop — GenAI Expert Cybersecurity Professional — live online to cybersecurity professionals worldwide. The workshop runs across 2 days (16 hours total) with pre-configured AI lab environments, limited to 30 seats per batch, and covers 13 modules across AI foundations, attack simulation, red teaming, and GRC automation. Priced at $239 with the CISSP Success Toolkit and 50+ AI cybersecurity prompts toolkit included free. 90-day post-workshop recording access is included.
What is GAESP and what does the workshop cover?
GAESP — GenAI Expert Cybersecurity Professional — is a proprietary Cybernous certification issued on completion of the 2-day live workshop. The workshop covers 13 modules across two days and is structured to cover both Generative AI security (LLM-based systems) and Agentic AI security (autonomous agents with tool access). Day 1: AI foundations, OWASP LLM Top 10, lab setup, attack simulation, malware/deepfake/phishing detection. Day 2: agentic SIEM automation, security testing, ethical hacking, GRC automation, AI red teaming, capstone.
Does the EU AI Act require AI security testing?
Yes. The EU AI Act has been in force since August 2025. High-risk AI systems must undergo conformity assessment before market placement, ongoing post-market monitoring, and fundamental rights impact assessments. Security testing is an explicit requirement across the lifecycle. The Act applies to AI systems placed on the EU market regardless of where the provider is based. GAESP covers EU AI Act obligations as part of the GRC automation module on Day 2.
What tools and frameworks does the GAESP workshop teach?
Tools taught hands-on: Python, TensorFlow, PyTorch, Scikit-learn, OpenAI API and open-source LLM APIs, LangChain and LangGraph (agent frameworks), MCP (Model Context Protocol), OpenAI Assistants, and custom Cybernous simulation environments. Frameworks covered: NIST AI RMF, OWASP LLM Top 10 (including agentic risks), EU AI Act, US Executive Order 14110. All lab environments are pre-configured — no local installation required.
How much does the GAESP workshop cost and what's included?
The GAESP workshop is priced at $239. Included: the full 2-day live workshop (16 hours), pre-configured AI lab environments, GAESP certificate on completion, CISSP Success Toolkit (included free), Magic Prompts Toolkit with 50+ AI cybersecurity prompts, and 90-day post-workshop recording access. There are no add-ons or upsells.
Who teaches the GAESP workshop and what are their credentials?
The GAESP workshop is led personally by Prof. Manoj Sharma, Founder of Cybernous. Manoj holds CISSP, CCSP, CISM, CISA, CRISC, and CPISI credentials, with 29 years of professional experience including 25 years in cybersecurity. He has coached 5,000+ professionals across 40+ countries through Cybernous, provided 400+ ISC² endorsements (the highest count in India), and received the Best Mentor Award 2025 by REVA University. He teaches every GAESP cohort personally.
Do I need coding or AI experience to attend GAESP?
No. The workshop is designed for working cybersecurity professionals with no prior AI background required. The tools track (Python, TensorFlow, PyTorch, Scikit-learn, LLM APIs) is taught hands-on from the fundamentals upward, using pre-configured lab environments so you don't need to install or configure anything locally. The workshop assumes you have working cybersecurity fundamentals, not AI fundamentals.
How is GAESP different from other AI cybersecurity courses online?
Three differences. First: GAESP is built for cybersecurity practitioners who need to secure the AI systems their organisation is deploying, not for AI specialists learning security. Second: sessions are live and cohort-based — 30 peers, 16 hours across two days, with Manoj leading every session personally. Third: GAESP is framework-agnostic — covers AI security disciplines that apply regardless of which cloud or LLM your organisation uses, unlike vendor-specific workshops.
What certificate do I receive after completing the GAESP workshop?
On completion of the 2-day workshop and the capstone exercise, you receive the GenAI Expert Cybersecurity Professional (GAESP) certificate from Cybernous. This is a proprietary Cybernous credential — issued by Cybernous, not by ISC² or ISACA or another third-party body. The workshop is designed to prepare you for practitioner-level AI security work in your current role.
Which region-specific GAESP page should I read?
Choose based on where you work. The Gulf page covers UAE National AI Strategy 2031, Saudi SDAIA AI Ethics Principles, and DESC AI cybersecurity standards. The APAC page covers Singapore IMDA Model AI Governance Framework, MAS guidelines on AI in financial services, and Malaysia AI Roadmap. The Americas page covers US EO 14110, NIST AI RMF, Canadian AIDA, and SEC AI disclosure expectations. The Europe page covers the EU AI Act, GDPR AI clauses, UK AI Regulation Bill, and BSI AI guidance. The workshop content is the same across all regions; the regional pages provide the regulatory and market context for your jurisdiction.
Your AI security capability starts with two days.
Join the next GAESP cohort — 30 seats, live sessions, personally led. $239 with the CISSP Success Toolkit and 50+ AI prompts included free.
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GAESP — the GenAI Expert Cybersecurity Professional workshop — is a live 2-day intensive delivered online worldwide by Prof. Manoj Sharma, Founder of Cybernous, with 29 years of professional experience including 25 years in cybersecurity. Manoj holds CISSP, CCSP, CISM, CISA, CRISC, and CPISI credentials, has coached 5,000+ professionals across 40+ countries, provided 400+ ISC² endorsements (the highest count in India), and received the Best Mentor Award 2025 by REVA University. The programme covers 16 hours of live instructor-led sessions with pre-configured AI lab environments, limited to 30 seats per batch, and awards a GAESP proprietary certificate on completion. The 13-module curriculum spans two days: Day 1 covers AI foundations, the AI threat landscape (OWASP LLM Top 10 including agentic risks), lab setup, attack simulation (prompt injection, model poisoning, agentic tool abuse), malware/deepfake/phishing detection. Day 2 covers SIEM automation with AI, AI-based security testing, ethical hacking with AI, GRC automation (EU AI Act and US EO 14110), AI red teaming, capstone. Tools: Python, TensorFlow, PyTorch, Scikit-learn, OpenAI and open-source LLM APIs, LangChain, LangGraph, MCP, OpenAI Assistants. Frameworks: NIST AI RMF, OWASP LLM Top 10, EU AI Act (August 2025), US EO 14110. Priced at $239 with CISSP Success Toolkit and Magic Prompts Toolkit (50+ AI cybersecurity prompts) included free. 90-day recording access. Regional variants: /gulf/gaesp-training, /apac/gaesp-training, /americas/gaesp-training, /europe/gaesp-training.