SpecterOps Expands Tradecraft Academy with New AI Frontier Model Tradecraft Course in Partnership with OpenAI

New Adversary Intelligence: LLM Tradecraft course teaches security practitioners to build, evaluate, attack, and detect LLM and agentic systems

ALEXANDRIA, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--SpecterOps today announced the availability of a new training course built in partnership with OpenAI through OpenAI Daybreak Defense Network. The new SpecterOps Tradecraft Academy offering, Adversary Intelligence: LLM Tradecraft, gives security practitioners a foundation to build, evaluate, test, and defend LLM and agentic systems through hands-on labs covering threat modeling, security testing, reverse engineering, and practical defensive security workflows. Course participants will also receive access to Codex and OpenAI’s latest models.

As enterprises rapidly accelerate AI adoption across business operations, AI agents and other AI-enabled systems are introducing new identities, tools and interactions that security teams need to understand and secure.

“Building practical experience is essential to understanding how AI can be applied effectively in cybersecurity,” said Wunan Li, Global Cyber Partnerships, OpenAI. “Built by SpecterOps’ AI threat researchers using the latest OpenAI models, Adversary Intelligence: LLM Tradecraft gives security practitioners the skills and understanding they need to proactively manage changing enterprise environments.”

With SpecterOps’ adversarial perspective woven throughout eight hours of content, Adversary Intelligence: LLM Tradecraft, gives participants hands-on experience applying AI technologies to security workflows and developing practical skills for evaluating, hardening, and securing agentic systems in enterprise environments.

“Increasingly, security practitioners are being asked to work with LLMs and agentic systems, but using these technologies effectively requires understanding how they work, where they can fail, and how an adversary might approach them,” said Andrew Chiles, VP of Tradecraft at SpecterOps. “The gap between using AI and understanding it can create security blind spots. We built the Adversary Intelligence: LLM Tradecraft course to close that gap through hands-on experience, giving practitioners the foundation to evaluate these systems critically and make informed decisions to build, evaluate, and secure them.”

Through this course, participants will learn:

• How to build and evaluate LLM and agentic systems, including how to assess their architecture, limitations, and security implications
• How to identify and understand adversarial techniques targeting LLM and agentic systems, including prompt injection, jailbreaks, and exploitable weaknesses in AI infrastructure
• How to apply AI to defensive security workflows, including threat modeling, security testing, and AI-assisted reverse engineering using OpenAI’s latest models

Through Tradecraft Academy, SpecterOps delivers both live and on-demand training to cybersecurity practitioners. In addition to Adversary Intelligence: LLM Tradecraft, Tradecraft Academy also offers an on-demand introductory training on the concept of Attack Path Management using BloodHound, SpecterOps’ flagship tool, as well as courses covering topics including software supply chain security and Kubernetes for red teamers.

The next live training, Specter Bash, takes place October 5-8, 2026 in Denver, Colorado. Registration for Adversary Intelligence: LLM Tradecraft is now open. Course material will be available beginning October 15, with participants receiving 30 days of content access plus 30 days of access to Codex. Learn more and enroll: https://academy.specterops.io/adversary-intelligence-llm-tradecraft

About SpecterOps


SpecterOps is the creator of BloodHound and the leader in identity Attack Path Management. Possessing deep knowledge of adversary tradecraft, the company enables organizations to understand their identity risk across AI and hybrid environments and proactively eliminate critical attack paths before they can be abused. SpecterOps is a trusted partner for leading AI companies, its offensive security services are leveraged by the largest enterprises and government agencies, and BloodHound has been recommended by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, PricewaterhouseCoopers and many others.

Learn more at https://specterops.io.