Our Mission

AI Security University makes high-quality AI security education, events and resources freely accessible.

Built by the leader in application security training

Dan Barahona built APIsec University into the largest API security training platform in the world — over 150k+ students, including security teams at 75% of the Fortune 100.

When generative AI and autonomous agents became software's fastest-growing attack surface, the same gap reopened: a brand-new discipline, no accessible way to learn it. So he turned the same playbook on AI — founding AI Security University to make this new discipline as learnable as he made the last.

150k+

Students trained

75%

of the Fortune 100 enrolled

25 yrs

Cybersecurity experience

Dan Barahona

Founder · AI Security University

Dan has spent 25 years in cybersecurity, including senior leadership roles at Qualys, Anomali, and ArcSight. A frequent speaker at developer and security events, he's known for making hard security ideas accessible to the people shipping code.

He built APIsec University into the world's largest API security training platform, then founded AI Security University to do the same for AI security.

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Our partners

We partner with the communities and organizations bringing AI security to the people who need it.

Women in Automotive Technology

Community partner — bringing AI-security education to the automotive technology community.

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Our experts

Working practitioners who teach what they actually do.

Scott Bly

Guest speaker

Field CISO at SIS Cyber, where he built the cybersecurity practice from scratch — AI, app & cloud security, DevSecOps, and pen testing. He's spent 20 years helping organizations secure what actually matters, not just what the framework requires, with prior security leadership at AWS and Noname Security. He builds AI security tooling — including Hermia, his open-source LLM evaluation framework — and speaks on the conference circuit about what happens when organizations adopt AI faster than they can govern it.

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