Former Microsoft Executive Heads New AI Cybersecurity Training Program

The new program focuses on securing AI and ML applications.

Diana Kelley, CISO, Protect AI

Protect AI – which offers artificial intelligence and machine learning security – announced on Thursday that it's launching a new cybersecurity certification program headed up by a former Microsoft CTO.

The MLSecOps Foundations program is free, video-based cybersecurity training led by Protect AI's CISO and former Microsoft CTO, Diana Kelley.

The program focuses on how to build security into AI and ML apps. Offered as a four-part video series, the training teaches participants how to secure machine learning models, conduct AI-related risk assessments, audit and monitor supply chains, implement incident response plans, build a machine learning security operations team, and secure an organization's AI and ML systems.

In addition to being a former Microsoft CTO, Kelley was global executive security advisor at IBM Security, GM at Symantec, VP at Burton Group (now Gartner), a manager at KPMG, CTO and co-founder of SecurityCurve, and chief vCISO at Salt Cybersecurity.

"AI/ML security threats are no longer theoretical. An active attack targeting a vulnerability in Ray, a widely used open-source AI framework, has already affected thousands of companies and servers running AI infrastructure,” Kelley said in a news release. “MLSecOps Foundations is designed to provide a comprehensive overview of how to build security into AI and ML using an MLSecOps framework and explains how and where security can be woven into ML pipelines,” she added.

Protect AI also has an AI/ML "bug bounty" program called huntr. According to the company, the huntr community is made up of over 15,000 members who hunt for vulnerabilities across the "entire OSS AI/ML supply chain."

This month, the huntr community, along with Protect AI researchers, discovered over 20 vulnerabilities in open-source tools used to build AI and ML apps.

MLSecOps Foundations was created for " AI users, developers and security teams," Protect AI said. The program is available for registration here.