This hands-on course that teaches you how to use AI coding agents to analyze codebases, detect vulnerabilities, and automate security workflows in modern development environments. Instead of treating AI coding tools as developer-only utilities, this course shows how cybersecurity professionals can leverage them to understand complex systems faster, scale security reviews, and operate effectively in AI-assisted development environments.
✅ Use AI to Analyze and Secure Codebases — Learn how to use Claude Code to understand large repositories, identify security risks, detect exposed secrets, and uncover common vulnerabilities such as those in the OWASP Top 10.
✅ Future-Proof Your Security Career — Gain the skills modern organizations need as AI becomes part of software development: AI-assisted security engineering, automated code analysis, and secure AI-driven development practices.
✅ Automate Security Reviews and Fixes — Discover how Claude Code can assist with security code reviews, generate remediation suggestions, and automate repetitive AppSec and DevSecOps tasks.
Introduction
FREE PREVIEWWhat is Claude Code and what is the big deal
Installing Claude Code
Model Selection and IDE
Creating a portfolio for your Cybersecurity Profile
Using Claude Code for a security review
Extending the power of Claude Code
Claude MD - The Security Policy
Claude skills - the procedures
Claude and MCP - the security tools
Claude and MCP - the security tools - 2
Sub-agents - Your own Cybersecurity team
Hooks - Your Cybersecurity Governance mechanism
Making Claude Code part of your team
The Way Forward
Claude Code is an AI-powered coding assistant that runs in the terminal and can analyze repositories, modify files, run commands, and automate development tasks using natural language. While it was originally designed for developers, it is quickly becoming a powerful tool for security engineers as well. Cybersecurity professionals can use Claude Code to understand large codebases, perform faster security reviews, detect vulnerabilities, and automate security tasks that would otherwise take hours of manual work.
Not necessarily. While Claude Code interacts with codebases and development tools, this course explains everything from a security perspective. You don’t need to be an expert programmer, but it helps to be comfortable reading basic code and understanding how modern applications are built. The focus is on how security professionals can use AI to analyze systems and identify risks rather than on building applications from scratch.
Most Claude Code courses focus on developer productivity, automation, and prompt engineering. This course focuses on security use cases. You’ll learn how cybersecurity professionals can use Claude Code to review applications, detect vulnerabilities, identify exposed secrets, and automate security workflows. The course also explores the security risks of AI coding agents, such as prompt injection attacks, malicious repositories, and AI supply chain threats.
Software development is rapidly shifting toward AI-assisted coding. Developers are increasingly relying on AI agents to generate, modify, and review code. As a result, cybersecurity professionals need to understand how these tools work and how they can be secured. Learning how to use Claude Code gives security professionals the ability to operate effectively in modern DevSecOps environments and helps them stay relevant as AI becomes a core part of the software development lifecycle.
