Asfela AI Security Engineering — Professional¶

Source repository for the Asfela AI Security Engineering — Professional course. Target price: $1,500 / seat. Output target: Thinkific (or equivalent LMS) for enrollment / payments / certs / drip, with an external lab platform (vendor selection in progress) hosting the hands-on browser terminals. Companion code lives at git@github.com:silas-asfela/ai-sec-course.git.

Repo layout¶

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├── README.md                       # this file
├── 00-curriculum-overview.md       # master curriculum
├── TEMPLATES.md                    # theory + lab lesson templates
├── decisions/                      # locked decisions (e.g., lab platform recommendation)
└── modules/
    ├── 00-orientation/             # 3 lessons + summary
    ├── 01-foundations/             # 5 long-form theory + 3 labs + quiz + summary
    ├── 02-security-foundations/    # 14 short theory + 2 labs + quiz + summary
    ├── 03-prompt-injection/        # 8 short theory + 6 labs + quiz + summary
    ├── 04-poisoning-supply-chain/  # 9 short theory + 4 labs + quiz + summary
    ├── 05-extraction-inversion/    # 7 short theory + 3 labs + quiz + summary
    ├── 06-adversarial-evasion/     # 6 short theory + 3 labs + quiz + summary
    ├── 07-mlsecops-defenses/       # 10 short theory + 4 labs + quiz + summary
    ├── 08-governance-compliance/   # 10 short theory + 1 lab + quiz + summary
    ├── 09-capstone/                # scenario brief + deliverable spec + reference solution + summary
    └── 10-certification-exam/      # instructions + 50-question item bank + answer key + scoring + course completion

Status¶

✅ Curriculum drafted (00-curriculum-overview.md)
✅ Lesson templates locked (TEMPLATES.md)
✅ Course/cert branding & price band locked
✅ Lab platform recommendation in decisions/01-lab-platform-recommendation.md
✅ Companion code repo scaffolded + pushed to https://github.com/silas-asfela/ai-sec-course
✅ Course content repo pushed to https://github.com/silas-asfela/ai-security-training
✅ Video length rule locked: ≤ 5 min per theory video, applies M2 onward (M0/M1 grandfathered)
✅ Module 0 — Orientation & Setup
✅ Module 1 — AI/ML Foundations
✅ Module 2 — AI Security Foundations
✅ Module 3 — Prompt Injection & LLM Application Attacks
✅ Module 4 — Data Poisoning, Backdoors & Supply Chain
✅ Module 5 — Model Extraction, Inversion & Membership Inference
✅ Module 6 — Adversarial Examples & Evasion
✅ Module 7 — Securing the AI Pipeline (MLSecOps & Defenses)
✅ Module 8 — AI Governance, Risk & Compliance
✅ Module 9 — Capstone Project
✅ Module 10 — Certification Exam

Course content build: complete (11 of 11 modules). Next phase: companion-repo code backfill (lab scripts, vulnerable target apps, datasets, workflows referenced from M2–M9 lab markdown).

Decisions locked (2026-05-16)¶

Course name: Asfela AI Security Engineering — Professional
Target price: $1,500 / seat
Audience: mixed cohort — security engineers learning AI + ML/AI engineers learning security
Depth: Professional tier, ~38 hours
Frameworks: OWASP Top 10 for LLMs, MITRE ATLAS, NIST AI RMF, EU AI Act
Lab hosting: external lab platform (vendor selection in progress)
Video format: full word-for-word script + slide outline per lesson
Build cadence: one module end-to-end, then review
Output format: markdown per lesson, organized by module folder
Companion code repo: git@github.com:silas-asfela/ai-sec-course.git