Agentic Engineering Institute/C003: Agentic Security Engineering ($249, now free for AEI members)

  • $249

C003: Agentic Security Engineering

  • Course
  • 16 Lessons

Regularly priced at $249, now free for AEI members.

Master the cutting edge of AI security with AEI’s Agentic Security Engineering, a 4-hour practitioner-focused course. Move beyond static firewalls to design dynamic runtime trust boundaries, implement in-loop policy enforcement, and produce cryptographic evidence for autonomous agents. Built on AEBOP T1.2 with hands-on labs.

Contents

Module 1: The Paradigm Shift – Why Static Security Fails for Agentic AI

Escape static thinking. This module diagnoses why firewalls and checklists fail for autonomous agents and introduces the core principle of "runtime trust." You'll learn to see security as a moving boundary that must be embedded within the cognition loop, not wrapped around it.

Lesson 1.1: The Agentic Attack Surface
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Lesson 1.2: The Runtime Trust Boundary Model
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Module 1 Mastery Assessment

Module 2: Detect & Contain – Mapping Trust Surfaces and Defining Policy-as-Code

Go from theory to tangible artifacts. Learn to map the agent's attack surface with trustmap.yaml and author enforceable guardrails with policy.yaml. Through hands-on labs, you'll replace static credentials with dynamic, task-scoped identity and establish your first runtime security boundaries.

Lesson 2.1: Trust Surface Discovery
Lesson 2.2: Policy-as-Code Foundations
Lesson 2.3: Dynamic Identity & Short-Lived Credentials
Module 2 Mastery Assessment

Module 3: Enforce & Prove – Building In-Loop Guardrails and Cryptographic Evidence

Embed security into the cognitive loop. Build and deploy a runtime interceptor (security.py) that validates every action before execution. You'll then generate cryptographically signed evidence for each decision, streaming immutable proof of control to a Trust Ledger.

Lesson 3.1: In-Loop Policy Enforcement
Lesson 3.2: Violation Response & Auto-Rollback
Module 3 Mastery Assessment

Module 4: Agentic Security Maturity Ladder – Assessing and Advancing Your Agentic System

Advance your systems methodically. Apply the L0-L5 maturity model to assess your current state and execute a structured upgrade path. Implement enterprise patterns for policy-as-code and prepare for cross-domain federation, moving from contained agents to a verifiable trust fabric.

Lesson 4.1: Maturity Assessment & Gap Analysis
Lesson 4.2: From Implementation to Federation (L2 to L5)
Module 4 Mastery Assessment

Module 5: Operations & Sustained Trust – Metrics, Rituals, and Recovery Assurance

Transition from project to practice. Establish the metrics, rituals, and automated playbooks needed for ongoing security assurance. Learn to detect drift, orchestrate recovery, and provide continuous proof of compliance—transforming security from an implementation into an intrinsic system behavior.

Lesson 5.1: Security Metrics Stack
Lesson 5.2: Anti-Patterns & Recovery Playbooks
Module 5 Mastery Assessment