AI, Identity & The 2126 Frontier
The perimeter dissolved, the attackers learned to think in matrix multiplications, and the thing you're looking at might not be real. This track is a field manual for the frontier: how identity became the control plane, how AI now fights on both sides of every engagement, how to secure the models themselves, and where the whole game is heading. Grounded in real standards and real incidents — pointed at the world you'll actually defend.
What you'll be able to do
- ▸ Explain authentication vs. authorization and pick the right federation protocol — SAML, OAuth 2.0, or OpenID Connect — for a given job.
- ▸ Reason about how defenders and attackers both weaponize machine learning, and why AI is a force-multiplier, not a silver bullet.
- ▸ Identify the major attacks against AI systems — prompt injection, poisoning, extraction, jailbreaks — and map them to the OWASP LLM Top 10.
- ▸ Assess deepfake and synthetic-media threats and apply provenance standards like C2PA instead of chasing detection.
- ▸ Navigate the cloud shared-responsibility model and secure the software supply chain with SBOMs and signing.
- ▸ Prepare for the post-quantum, decentralized-identity, agentic-AI world of 2126 — and articulate why the human defender still matters most.
Module Path
- 01
Identity & Access Management
When the walls came down, identity became the wall.
16 min 5 briefings - 02
AI on Both Sides of the Fight
The same math defends the castle and storms it.
15 min 4 briefings - 03
Adversarial ML & Securing AI Systems
The model is now part of the attack surface.
17 min 5 briefings - 04
Deepfakes & Synthetic Media
When you can no longer trust your own eyes and ears.
14 min 5 briefings - 05
Cloud & Supply-Chain Security
You don't just run your own code — you run everyone's.
16 min 5 briefings - 06
The 2126 Horizon
The tools will keep changing. The mission won't.
18 min 6 briefings