EXIN AI Security Professional This certification validates your ability to identify, test, and govern AI-specific security risks.

Course overview

About this course

The EXIN AI Security Professional based on the OWASP AI Exchange certification confirms that the professional knows how to keep AI systems secure during design, development, deployment, and daily use in line with organizational policies, standards, and applicable laws.

The certification offers a path for professionals to better understand AI security in the organization, key threat categories, effective security controls, AI security testing, and privacy and compliance across the AI lifecycle.

Audience profile

• AI professionals
• (Cyber) security professionals
• Data protection and privacy professionals
• Machine learning (security) engineers
• Data engineers
• Quality & evaluation specialists
• Governance, risk and compliance officers

At course completion, you will be able to:

• Apply the GUARD framework to structure AI security organizationally
• Distinguish AI security risk from conventional cybersecurity risk
• Map AI assets — training data, models, inputs, outputs — to their unique threats
• Run risk management steps purpose-built for AI threat modeling
• Identify security risks specific to agentic AI systems
• Apply structured, repeatable risk treatment and monitoring cycles
• Classify evasion attacks by attacker knowledge level
• Distinguish direct from indirect prompt injection; apply 7-layer defense
• Identify data poisoning, model exfiltration, and sensitive data leakage
• Apply governance controls across AI, security, and compliance programs
• Limit sensitive data exposure to reduce your AI attack surface
• Identify what to test in predictive AI versus generative AI
• Run a systematic red-teaming process from scoping to validation of fixes
• Apply AI-specific privacy principles to real-world scenarios
• Map ISO/IEC 23894, 27005, 42001, and 5338 to compliance requirements