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Agentic AI in Cybersecurity

Learn how agentic AI is transforming cybersecurity. This course will teach you how to automate security workflows with AI agents, evaluate enterprise and open-source solutions, and apply practical techniques to improve security operations.

Beginner
19m

Created by Tim Coakley

Last Updated Jul 23, 2026

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Agentic AI in Cybersecurity

Learn how agentic AI is transforming cybersecurity. This course will teach you how to automate security workflows with AI agents, evaluate enterprise and open-source solutions, and apply practical techniques to improve security operations.

Beginner
19m

Created by Tim Coakley

Last Updated Jul 23, 2026

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What you'll learn

As cybersecurity teams face growing alert volumes, increasingly sophisticated threats, and limited resources, manual security workflows are becoming difficult to scale. In this course, Agentic AI in Cybersecurity, you'll gain the ability to understand, evaluate, and apply agentic AI to automate and enhance security operations. First, you'll explore the core concepts of agentic AI and how autonomous AI agents differ from traditional AI assistants and automation. Next, you'll discover how enterprise solutions such as Surf Security transform manual cybersecurity workflows into secure, autonomous processes with built-in governance and human oversight. Finally, you'll learn how to build and experiment with your own agentic AI workflows using freely available tools to automate common cybersecurity tasks. When you're finished with this course, you'll have the practical knowledge of agentic AI in cybersecurity needed to identify automation opportunities, evaluate agentic AI solutions, and begin integrating secure AI agents into real-world security operations.

Agentic AI in Cybersecurity
Beginner
19m
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Tim Coakley - Pluralsight course - Agentic AI in Cybersecurity
Tim Coakley
11 courses 3.9 author rating 34 ratings

Tim Coakley is a Senior Security Solutions Architect for a large multi-national organisation and an author at PluralSight. Tim started a long and successful full-time career in Digital Forensics supporting the criminal justice system and law enforcement on a long list of criminal cases.

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