Claude for Cybersecurity by Christopher Nett is a hands-on course that teaches you how to apply Anthropic’s Claude across real-world cybersecurity workflows. Whether you’re triaging alerts in a SOC, producing threat intelligence reports, or reviewing application code — this course shows you how to get there faster and more effectively with AI.
You’ll start with the fundamentals: how Claude works, how to write effective security prompts, and how to use Claude Code as an AI-powered terminal. From there, you’ll build autonomous security agents using the Claude Agent SDK. Then you apply everything across three security domains through hands-on labs using real-world scenarios, tools, and data formats.
By the end of this course, you’ll have built multiple security agents from scratch and gained practical experience integrating AI into your daily security operations. Here’s what each section covers:
- Introduction to Claude: Understand Claude’s model family (Opus, Sonnet, Haiku), choose the right model for your security tasks, compare model tiers on a real analysis task, and master six prompt engineering patterns designed for cybersecurity.
- Claude Code for Security: Install and configure Claude Code, set up your full lab environment with API keys for VirusTotal, AbuseIPDB, and more. Then learn the Claude Agent SDK architecture — tools, hooks, and sandboxing — and build your first agents, progressing from a simple tool-calling agent to an automated alert triage workflow.
- SOC & Incident Response: Analyze phishing emails and malicious macros, build log analysis tools, generate SIGMA and YARA detection rules, and produce NIST-aligned incident reports.
- Cyber Threat Intelligence: Profile threat actors, enrich indicators of compromise through live API integrations (VirusTotal, AbuseIPDB), and convert raw intelligence into structured STIX 2.1 bundles.
- Secure Development & AppSec: Run AI-powered code reviews, identify OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities in real applications, perform deep CVE analysis, generate security test cases from API specs, scan for hardcoded secrets and misconfigurations, and audit Terraform templates for cloud security issues.
- Capstone Projects: Build three autonomous security agents — for threat intelligence, incident response, and DevSecOps — using the Claude Agent SDK.
Every lab in this course is fully standalone — you can jump to any section that matches your role or interest without completing earlier labs first. Whether you’re a SOC analyst, CTI professional, or AppSec engineer, you’ll find practical content tailored to your domain.
