The review for the Hack the Box AI Red Team course and associated Certified Offensive AI Expert (COAE) certification is now live:
https://t.co/M3gjDPdpgI
Hack The Box Academy's AI Red Teamer Job Role Path and its associated HTB Certified Offensive AI Expert (COAE) certification together form the most comprehensive machine-learning-focused offensive AI security training package available today. Developed in collaboration with Google and aligned with Google's Secure AI Framework (SAIF), the complete package takes learners from foundational AI/ML concepts through advanced adversarial techniques and validates those skills with a demanding 7-day practical exam. The course spans 12 modules covering the full spectrum of AI attack surfaces: prompt injection, model privacy attacks, adversarial evasion, supply chain risks, and deployment-level vulnerabilities. The COAE exam then puts all of that knowledge to the test in a simulated corporate AI environment, requiring a commercial-grade report as the final deliverable.
Overall, I thought the complete package was excellent. This is the first certification I have taken that incorporates high-level mathematics, and working through the course and then applying it under exam conditions genuinely transformed the way I think in a systematic way. Concepts like gradient descent, norm constraints, and adversarial perturbation theory are not the kind of material you encounter in traditional offensive security certifications, and engaging with them here gave me a fundamentally deeper understanding of how these systems work. My grasp of machine learning and AI is significantly greater than it was going in, at both the academic level (understanding the math and theory behind models) and the operational level (knowing how to exploit and assess real-world AI systems). If you are a security professional looking to develop genuine competency in AI red teaming rather than surface-level familiarity, this is the training and certification I would recommend.