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Vertex AI and Generative AI Security

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Overview

This course is designed to empower your organization to fully harness the transformative potential of Google's Vertex AI and generative AI (gen AI) technologies, with a strong emphasis on security. Tailored for AI practitioners and security engineers, it provides targeted knowledge and hands-on skills to navigate and adopt AI safely and effectively.

What You'll Learn

  • Establish foundational knowledge of Vertex AI and its security challenges
  • Implement identity and access control measures to restrict access to Vertex AI resources
  • Configure encryption strategies and protect sensitive information
  • Enable logging, monitoring, and alerting for real-time security oversight of Vertex AI operations
  • Identify and mitigate unique security threats associated with generative AI
  • Apply testing techniques to validate and secure generative AI model responses
  • Implement best practices for securing data sources and responses within Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems
  • Establish foundational knowledge of AI Safety

Who Should Attend

AI practitioners, security professionals, and cloud architects

Prerequisites

Fundamental knowledge of machine learning, in particular generative AI, and basic understanding of security on Google Cloud.

Products Covered

Vertex AIGeminiCloud IAMCloud VPCCloud KMSCloud OperationsSensitive Data Protection

Course Modules

1

Introduction to Vertex AI Security Principles

Topics

  • Google Cloud Security
  • Vertex AI components
  • Vertex AI Security concerns

Learning Outcomes

  • Review Google Cloud Security fundamentals
  • Establish a foundational understanding of Vertex AI
  • Enumerate the security concerns related to Vertex AI features and components

Activities

Lab: Vertex AI: Training and Serving a Custom Model
2

Identity and Access Management (IAM) in Vertex AI

Topics

  • Overview of IAM in Google Cloud

Learning Outcomes

  • Control access with Identity Access Management
  • Simplify permission using organization hierarchies and policies
  • Use service accounts for least privileged access

Activities

Lab: Service Accounts and Roles: Fundamentals
3

Data Security and Privacy

Topics

  • Data encryption
  • Protecting Sensitive Data
  • VPC Service Controls
  • Disaster recovery planning

Learning Outcomes

  • Configure encryption at rest and in-transit
  • Encrypt data using customer-managed encryption keys
  • Protect sensitive data using the Data Loss Prevention service
  • Prevent exfiltration of data using VPC Service Controls
  • Architect systems with disaster recovery in mind

Activities

Lab: Getting Started with Cloud KMSLab: Creating a De-identified Copy of Data in Cloud Storage
4

Securing Vertex AI Endpoints and model deployment

Topics

  • Network security
  • Securing model endpoints

Learning Outcomes

  • Deploy ML models using model endpoints
  • Secure model endpoints

Activities

Lab: Configuring Private Google Access and Cloud NAT
5

Monitoring and logging in Vertex AI

Topics

  • Logging
  • Monitoring

Learning Outcomes

  • Write to and analyze logs
  • Set up monitoring and alerting
6

Security risks in generative AI applications

Topics

  • Overview of gen AI security risks
  • Overview of AI Safety
  • Prompt security
  • LLM safeguards

Learning Outcomes

  • Identify security risks specific to LLMs and gen AI applications
  • Understand methods for mitigating prompt hacking and injection attacks
  • Explore the fundamentals of securing generative AI models and applications
  • Introduce fundamentals of AI Safety

Activities

Lab: Safeguarding with Vertex AI Gemini APILab: Gen AI & LLM Security for Developers
7

Testing and evaluating generative AI model responses

Topics

  • Testing generative AI model responses
  • Evaluating model responses
  • Fine-Tuning LLMs

Learning Outcomes

  • Implement best practices for testing model responses
  • Apply techniques for improving response security in gen AI applications

Activities

Lab: Measure Gen AI Performance with the Generative AI Evaluation ServiceLab: Unit Testing Generative AI Applications
8

Securing Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems

Topics

  • Fundamentals of Retrieval-Augmented Generation
  • Security in RAG systems

Learning Outcomes

  • Understand RAG architecture and security implications
  • Implement best practices for grounding and securing data sources in RAG systems

Activities

Lab: Multimodal Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) Using the Vertex AI Gemini APILab: Introduction to Function Calling with Gemini

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Course Details

Course Code
T-VAIGAS-I
Duration
2 days
Format
ILT
Level
Intermediate
Modules
8
Activities
10
Price
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