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Course Outline

Introduction to Edge AI and Embedded Systems

  • Defining Edge AI: Use cases and operational constraints
  • Edge hardware platforms and software stacks
  • Security challenges in embedded and decentralized environments

Threat Landscape for Edge AI

  • Risks associated with physical access and tampering
  • Adversarial examples and model manipulation
  • Data leakage and model inversion threats

Model Security

  • Strategies for model hardening and quantization
  • Implementing watermarks and fingerprints in models
  • Defensive distillation and pruning techniques

Encrypted Inference and Secure Execution

  • Leveraging Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) for AI
  • Utilizing secure enclaves and confidential computing
  • Performing encrypted inference via homomorphic encryption or SMPC

Tamper Detection and Device-Level Controls

  • Secure boot processes and firmware integrity checks
  • Sensor validation and anomaly detection
  • Remote attestation and device health monitoring

Edge-to-Cloud Security Integration

  • Ensuring secure data transmission and key management
  • End-to-end encryption and data lifecycle protection
  • Coordinating cloud AI orchestration with edge security constraints

Best Practices and Risk Mitigation Strategy

  • Conducting threat modeling for edge AI systems
  • Applying security design principles for embedded intelligence
  • Managing incident response and firmware updates

Summary and Next Steps

Requirements

  • Knowledge of embedded systems or edge AI deployment contexts
  • Proficiency in Python and ML frameworks (e.g., TensorFlow Lite, PyTorch Mobile)
  • Basic understanding of cybersecurity or IoT threat models

Target Audience

  • Embedded AI developers
  • IoT security specialists
  • Engineers deploying ML models on edge or constrained devices
 14 Hours

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