Training / Bangalore · Jun 2026
Cohort 01 · Bangalore

Defend the agents already running in your BFSI stack.

A 3-day, hands-on programme for the security teams, AI engineers, and red-teamers shipping in Indian BFSI and enterprise. Mornings are concept-led. Afternoons are labs. Evenings are cohort dinners — that's where the real curriculum lives.

Format
3-day intensive · Hybrid
Dates
June 24 – 26, 2026
Location
Bangalore + Online
Seats
Capped at 60

The data your defence stack hasn't caught up to.

4.1M
attacks per month on the Indian BFSI sector (Jan–Jun 2025)
83%
of successful ransomware attacks compromise identity infrastructure first
₹250 Cr
maximum DPDP Act penalty per violation
$240B
global cybersecurity spend in 2026 (Gartner)

Four roles. One room.

We curate cohorts so peer conversations land. If you ship security decisions for a real org, this room is for you.

Track A

CISOs & Security Leaders

Translate AI risk into board-level posture. Build the agent governance framework before regulators write yours.

Track B

AI / ML Engineers

Architect LLM systems that survive contact with adversarial prompts, shadow agents, and exfiltration attempts.

Track C

Red Team & SOC Analysts

Hunt for non-human identities. Detect agent drift, prompt injection chains, and tool-call anomalies in production traces.

Track D

Compliance & Risk Officers

Map NIST AI RMF, DPDP, and sectoral guidance (RBI, SEBI) to a single audit trail. Stop compiling evidence; start owning it.

Three tracks. Built around how attacks actually move.

Each track runs as a hands-on lab with a Blackbead.ai engineer. You leave with code, runbooks, and a deployment-ready threat model.

01

Protect Legacy Assets with AI Agents

Deploy intelligent agents to continuously monitor, assess, and harden existing infrastructure against AI-powered threats. No rip-and-replace.

Continuous Monitoring Threat Detection Legacy Hardening
03

LLM Design & Prompt Engineering

Architect LLM solutions end-to-end: model selection, fine-tuning, prompt frameworks, guardrails, and evaluation pipelines that hold up in production.

LLM Architecture Prompt Engineering Guardrails & Evals

Three days. Zero filler.

Mornings are concept-led. Afternoons are labs. Evenings are dinners with cohort peers.

Day 01 · June 24

The new threat surface

09:00 – 10:30 IST
Why legacy IAM breaks for AI agents
11:00 – 13:00 IST
Lab: mapping non-human identity in your stack
14:00 – 16:00 IST
Threat modelling autonomous agents
16:30 – 18:00 IST
Cohort dinner · founder fireside
Day 02 · June 25

Defence in depth

09:00 – 10:30 IST
Prompt injection and tool-call abuse
11:00 – 13:00 IST
Lab: building behavioural anomaly detectors
14:00 – 16:00 IST
Guardrails, evals, and red-team harnesses
16:30 – 18:00 IST
Live red team exercise · capture the agent
Day 03 · June 26

Governance & the road ahead

09:00 – 10:30 IST
NIST AI RMF, DPDP, and the audit trail
11:00 – 13:00 IST
Lab: writing an agent governance policy (RBI / SEBI mapped)
14:00 – 16:00 IST
Board-level reporting for AI risk
16:30 – 18:00 IST
Capstone presentations · certification

Built for the regulations your board will ask about.

Global frameworks first. India-specific guidance baked into the cohort labs.

NIST AI RMF
Govern, map, measure, manage — mapped to runtime controls.
OWASP LLM Top 10
Prompt injection, data leakage, supply chain — covered by design.
ISO 42001
AI management system — control mappings + audit evidence.
SOC 2 Type II
Security, availability, confidentiality controls.
DPDP Act 2023
Data principal rights, consent, automated decisioning trails.
RBI Master Direction (IT)
Banking IT governance, outsourcing, model risk.
SEBI Cyber Resilience
Market-infra cyber framework — detection & reporting cadence.
MITRE ATLAS
Adversarial threat landscape for AI systems.

Practitioners. Founder-led.

Every instructor has shipped the technique they teach into production. No theorists, no resellers.

BB

Lead Instructor

Blackbead.ai · Tracks 01–03
RK

Practitioner-in-Residence

CISO · Indian BFSI · Track A guest
PM

AI Security Engineer

Agent identity & least-privilege enforcement
VS

Red Team Lead

Live capture-the-agent exercises
"Most security training teaches you yesterday's playbook. This is the first programme I've seen that takes AI agents seriously as a first-class threat model — and gives you the runbook to actually defend against them."
Head of Security · Indian Scheduled Commercial Bank · Cohort 01 reviewer

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