Course Outline

Introduction to Edge AI and Embedded Systems

  • What is Edge AI? Use cases and constraints
  • Edge hardware platforms and software stacks
  • Security challenges in embedded and decentralized environments

Threat Landscape for Edge AI

  • Physical access and tampering risks
  • Adversarial examples and model manipulation
  • Data leakage and model inversion threats

Securing the Model

  • Model hardening and quantization strategies
  • Watermarking and fingerprinting models
  • Defensive distillation and pruning

Encrypted Inference and Secure Execution

  • Trusted execution environments (TEEs) for AI
  • Secure enclaves and confidential computing
  • Encrypted inference using homomorphic encryption or SMPC

Tamper Detection and Device-Level Controls

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

Edge-to-Cloud Security Integration

  • Secure data transmission and key management
  • End-to-end encryption and data lifecycle protection
  • Cloud AI orchestration with edge security constraints

Best Practices and Risk Mitigation Strategy

  • Threat modeling for edge AI systems
  • Security design principles for embedded intelligence
  • Incident response and firmware update management

Summary and Next Steps

Requirements

  • An understanding of embedded systems or edge AI deployment environments
  • Experience with Python and ML frameworks (e.g., TensorFlow Lite, PyTorch Mobile)
  • Basic familiarity with cybersecurity or IoT threat models

Audience

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

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