5-Day AI Agent Security Crash Course
You're shipping an AI agent. Security guidance is either a 400-page enterprise standard or a Twitter thread. This is the middle path: five focused, ten-minute lessons that take you from "I hope it's fine" to a completed pre-production audit.
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The curriculum
Day 1 — The OWASP LLM Top 10, translated. The ten ways AI applications actually get broken in production, in plain English with real 2026 examples — prompt injection, training-data poisoning, supply-chain model risks, and the ones everyone ignores until they're breached.
Day 2 — Prompt injection: the bug that has no patch. Why instruction filtering doesn't work, the privilege-boundary model that does, and the three structural defenses you can ship this week — with a checklist of the exact patterns to search your codebase for.
Day 3 — RAG is a data-leak machine (until you fix four things). How retrieval pipelines leak documents across tenants and sessions, the four controls that close the common paths (scope enforcement, document-level ACLs, injection surface reduction, output filtering), and a 15-minute self-test for your own pipeline.
Day 4 — Infrastructure hardening for AI stacks. The network shape of a safe deployment: what the inference endpoint may touch, secrets and API-key hygiene for agent tooling, log data that shouldn't be logged, and the misconfigurations we find in most self-hosted setups.
Day 5 — The pre-production audit. Put it together: run the complete audit checklist (free download included), score your stack across the six audit sections, and get a go/no-go list for launch. Graduates also get first access to the paid deep-dive guides.
Who wrote this
The course distills the GeniusTechLab AI Security Audit Checklist (6 sections, aligned to the OWASP LLM Top 10) and the Zero-Day Emergency Response Playbook into a daily-lesson format. GeniusTechLab has published daily AI-security and infrastructure coverage since 2024 — 180+ posts, read by homelabbers, developers, and IT teams in 60+ countries.
Who it's for (and not for)
- For: developers shipping agents/chatbots, IT admins running self-hosted LLMs, RAG pipeline builders, technical founders.
- Not for: people who have already run a formal LLM threat model — you'd find days 1-3 familiar; day 5's audit checklist may still be useful.
- Prerequisites: comfort with reading config files and basic networking vocabulary. No security specialization needed.
Ready to start?
Lesson 1 (the OWASP LLM Top 10, translated) goes out today.
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