AI models are no longer locked in the cloud—they live in your pocket, powering mobile apps for fitness, finance, healthcare, and beyond. But with this power comes new risk: adversarial attacks, model theft, privacy leaks, and silent failures that undermine user trust.
Securing Mobile AI Models against Attacks (SMAI) is a hands-on course for mobile app developers, AI engineers, and cybersecurity professionals who want to safeguard AI models on Android and iOS.
Through interactive coach dialogues, video lessons, and practical labs, you’ll learn how to embed security from day one, analyze threats like reverse engineering and adversarial inputs, and implement layered defenses using encryption, obfuscation, and OpenTelemetry monitoring.
By the end, you will have the skills to design, secure, and continuously monitor mobile AI applications, ensuring resilience, compliance, and user confidence in real-world deployments.
Participants should have a basic understanding of AI, machine learning, and mobile development, along with knowledge of security concepts like encryption and data protection. Familiarity with AI model deployment and monitoring tools like OpenTelemetry is also helpful.
This module introduces learners to the unique nature of AI models running on mobile devices and why security cannot be bolted on later. Through an AI-guided dialogue, short lessons, and a design-focused lab, learners see how early choices in packaging and deployment set the stage for resilience or vulnerability. In this module, the emphasis is that security is not a barrier to innovation, it is the enabler of sustainable mobile AI applications.
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4个视频2篇阅读材料1次同伴评审
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4个视频•总计19分钟
An Introduction to Protecting Mobile AI Models•4分钟
What Makes Mobile AI Different•4分钟
From Model to Mobile App: The Deployment Pipeline•5分钟
Why Security Matters From Day One•6分钟
2篇阅读材料•总计10分钟
Welcome to the Course: Course Overview•5分钟
ShadowNet: A Secure and Efficient On-device Model Inference System for Convolutional Neural Networks•5分钟
1次同伴评审•总计25分钟
Hands-On-Learning: Designing Early Security for Mobile AI Models•25分钟
Evaluating Threats to Mobile AI Models
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In this module, learners will dive deeply into the adversarial landscape, exploring how reverse engineering, data inference, and adversarial inputs compromise mobile AI systems. The AI coach uses a real-world scenario to show how curiosity can become an attack, while lessons and labs reveal the tangible risks of model theft and privacy leaks. Forwards the understanding that researching threats is not paranoia but the prerequisite for defending trust and intellectual property, the essential elements of a secure, and mobile, AI.
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3个视频1篇阅读材料1次同伴评审
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3个视频•总计18分钟
Reverse Engineering and Model Theft•5分钟
Adversarial Attacks in Your Pocket•6分钟
Privacy Leaks and Data Inference•7分钟
1篇阅读材料•总计5分钟
The Security Risks of AI-Driven Development: What to Do About Them•5分钟
1次同伴评审•总计25分钟
Hands-On-Learning: Tracing Privacy Leaks in Mobile AI Applications•25分钟
Defending and Monitoring Mobile AI Applications
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This module shifts from analysis to action, equipping learners with strategies to harden models and continuously monitor them in production. Guided by an AI dialogue on stealthy breaches, learners see how OpenTelemetry and layered defenses provide visibility and resilience in the field. Overall, learners discover securing mobile AI is not a one-time act, but a continuous practice of observing, adapting, and improving.
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4个视频1篇阅读材料1个作业2次同伴评审
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4个视频•总计29分钟
Securing the Model Lifecycle•6分钟
Continuous Monitoring and Telemetry•13分钟
Building a Security Mindset for Mobile AI •6分钟
Delivering a Secure Mobile AI •3分钟
1篇阅读材料•总计5分钟
A Meta-Survey of Adversarial Attacks Against Artificial Intelligence Algorithms, Including Diffusion Models•5分钟
1个作业•总计20分钟
Secure Mobile AI Models Against Attacks•20分钟
2次同伴评审•总计85分钟
Hands-On-Learning: Building Telemetry for AI Threat Detection with Open Telemetry•25分钟
Project: Designing and Defending a Secure Mobile AI Ecosystem •60分钟
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