Course 01 / Foundation
The AI shift moved faster than anyone's playbook.
Ryvane Academy is built for three people the AI shift caught off guard. The newcomer to security, watching the feeds fill with talk of automated pentesting and layoffs, unsure the field is still worth entering. The working security professional who can feel how fast things are moving, but has no clear place to start with the AI-integrated apps now landing on their desk. And the developer shipping AI features under pressure to compete, where the security of what they just integrated quietly becomes tomorrow's problem. The academy is our answer to all three: a structured path to get AI-ready, and proof that AI-assisted security is something you can do from day one.
Curriculum preview
Courses to make yourself AI-ready.
Course 02 / Intermediate
Transformer Architecture
Embeddings, attention, residual streams, decoding. A defender tour of the architecture that ships almost every modern AI system.12 modules / 58 MCQs / challengesCourse 03 / Intermediate
Machine Learning for Security Professionals
Classifiers, embeddings, training loops, and evaluation. Enough hands-on ML to read papers and test real systems.11 modules / 41 MCQs / challengesCourse 04 / Advanced
MCP Security
A dedicated course on Model Context Protocol surface area, tool-call boundaries, and permission mistakes.8 modules / 42 MCQs / 18 challengesWhy free
Honest about how it gets made.
Let's be honest. In the current LLM era, creating content that used to take a long time is no longer hard, especially the text. Our operators are, and will continue to be, using LLMs to help draft these courses.
But the manual work is real: reviewing every claim, rewriting passages in the way we'd actually explain them, designing the interactive components & challenges, keeping each lesson grounded in the audit work we're shipping. Putting in that effort is what helps us become better AI security experts ourselves, and it's what makes the academy actually useful for you. :)
Inside each course
Some of the features that make learning actually engaging.
- Progress that pulls learners back in
- MCQs with practical explanation
- Annotated vulnerable logic
- Interactive drills that train security thinking
- Visual animations that make concepts click
- Certificate of completion

Frequently Asked Questions
Are the courses really free?
Yes. The operators building these courses already have full-time roles, and we genuinely enjoy creating them.
Who is it for?
Security engineers, software engineers, red teamers, and operators who want practical AI security capability.
Do I get a certificate?
Certificate paths are planned for the hands-on tracks after the first public course set opens.