Resilient AI Safety Essentials — RAISE
The Resilient AI Safety Essentials (RAISE) certification from RiseCert™ prepares professionals, and the teams and families around them, to recognize, defend against, and recover from AI-enabled cyber threats. As deepfakes, voice clones, and AI-powered fraud turn everyone into a target, RAISE-certified professionals become the human firewall their organizations rely on: calm, prepared, and equipped to verify what can no longer be trusted at face value.
Course details
Duration
1h 27m 04s
Lectures
20
Video
1.5 hours
Quizzes
1
Level
Beginner
Course Description
Across six modules and twenty lessons, the credential covers the full arc of AI-era defense — from the threat landscape and the verification habits that beat perfect fakes, to securing your AI tools, protecting yourself and your family, responding to incidents at machine speed, and building lasting resilience. Through the self-paced video course and a final exam, you'll gain the frameworks, protocols, and reflexes to stay ahead of emerging threats and build genuine trust in how your organization adopts AI — threat-aware, not afraid.
Module 1: The AI Threat Landscape
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1.1 What AI Changed About Cyber AttacksSpeed, scale, quality — and why everyone is now a target.
In this lesson:
- Name the three shifts AI brought to cyber attacks
- Understand why the old tells no longer work
- See why prepared people are the durable defense
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1.2 The Attack Families
Phishing, voice cloning, deepfakes, intrusions, and the recon that fuels them.
In this lesson:
- Recognize the five AI-enabled attack families
- Understand how reconnaissance arms them all
- See the common shape beneath every attack
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1.3 Why Yesterday's Training Fails
Spot-the-fake is dead; the pressure decision is the skill — and calibration beats panic.
In this lesson:
- See why spot-the-fake training stopped working
- Understand the pressure decision as the real skill
- Adopt the calibrated stance: serious threat, workable defense
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1.4 The Defender's Position
People + process + technology — and why you staff the two strongest layers.
In this lesson:
- Understand the three defensive layers and their trade-offs
- See why layers cover each other's misses
- Recognize that you are two of the three layers
Module 2: The Human Firewall
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2.1 Spotting AI Phishing, Voice Clones & Deepfakes
The signals that survive fluency — across email, phone, and video.
In this lesson:
- Judge requests, not surfaces, across every channel
- Recognize the behavioral tells of clones and deepfakes
- Treat every channel as unverified until you check
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2.2 The Golden Rule: Out-of-Band Verification
The one principle no fake survives — plus code words and callback culture.
In this lesson:
- Define out-of-band verification precisely
- Choose valid channels; set up code words
- Build callback culture that removes the social cost
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2.3 Payment Controls, BEC & Verifying Under Pressure
Structural controls, the costliest con, and the STOP drill for the pressure moment.
In this lesson:
- Apply dual approval and banking-change controls
- Recognize business email compromise 2.0
- Run the STOP drill when everything screams now
Module 3: Securing Your AI Tools & Data
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3.1 Your AI Tools Are a Target
Injection, leakage, poisoning, and shadow AI — the four new attack paths.
In this lesson:
- See AI tools as part of your attack surface
- Recognize injection, leakage, poisoning, and shadow AI
- Adopt the bright-gullible-colleague mindset
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3.2 Safe AI Usage Habits
Approved tools, prompt hygiene, and verifying outputs before you act.
In this lesson:
- Run the approved-tool, approved-account check
- Apply prompt hygiene and de-identification
- Verify AI outputs in proportion to the stakes
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3.3 Agents, Integrations & Organizational Safeguards
Least privilege for AI that acts and connects — plus policy, identity, and vendors.
In this lesson:
- Apply least privilege to agents and integrations
- Keep humans on the irreversible steps
- Know the organizational safeguards: policy, identity, monitoring, vendors
Module 4: Personal & Digital Safety
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4.1 Passwords, MFA & Account Security
The four habits that take you out of the easy-target pool.
In this lesson:
- Adopt the four account-security habits
- Understand why password reuse is uniquely dangerous now
- Recognize the MFA-code and install-this cons
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4.2 Your Digital Footprint & Your Likeness
Starve the reconnaissance, and manage the reality that you are clonable.
In this lesson:
- Run the footprint audit that weakens personalization
- Keep career assets while trimming attack fuel
- Reduce and respond as a clonable person
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4.3 Protecting Your Family
The family safety setup — code words, elders, teens, and the household rule.
In this lesson:
- Set up the family code word and callback habit
- Protect elders from emergency and support scams
- Protect teens through openness, not just monitoring
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4.4 The Reporting Advantage
Why fast, blame-free reporting is the cheapest force-multiplier in security.
In this lesson:
- See how one report protects the whole group
- Retire the shame that delays reporting
- Report well — including near-misses
Module 5: When It Happens: Incident Response
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5.1 Recognize & Triage: Fraud, Fake, or Breach
Machine-speed incidents, the signals, and sorting the type fast.
In this lesson:
- Understand why AI compressed the incident timeline
- Recognize the human and system signals early
- Triage into fraud, fake, or breach
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5.2 The First Hour
Contain, preserve, escalate — and what to do if you clicked or paid.
In this lesson:
- Run the universal first-hour actions
- Act on fraud, clicks, and credential slips fast
- Favor reversible, aggressive containment
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5.3 Recover & Learn
The blameless review, evidence and legal duties, and rebuilding trust.
In this lesson:
- Run a blameless post-incident review
- Understand evidence and legal-duty basics
- Rebuild trust — and gain credibility
Module 6: Building Lasting Resilience
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6.1 Assess Your Readiness
An honest baseline: readiness, crown jewels, and who gets targeted.
In this lesson:
- Assess readiness across people, process, technology, response
- Identify crown jewels and likely attack paths
- Map which roles attackers target most
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6.2 Build & Sustain the Program
Layered defense, training that works, metrics, drills, and governance.
In this lesson:
- Build a layered program with early wins and named owners
- Design training and metrics that change behavior
- Sustain the program with drills and governance
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6.3 The Resilient Organization
The whole course assembled — threat-aware, not afraid. The finale.
In this lesson:
- Assemble the course into one worldview
- Carry the durable defender's creed
- Complete AI Cybersecurity & Safety Essentials
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Answers to the most common questions about this course.
What is the Resilient AI Safety Essentials (RAISE) course?
Resilient AI Safety Essentials (RAISE) is a free RiseCert online course that teaches professionals, their teams, and their families to recognize and stop AI-powered threats such as deepfakes, voice clones, and AI phishing. It includes 20 short lessons in six modules, about 1.5 hours of video, and ends with the RAISE Certification Exam.
Who should take an AI safety and deepfake awareness course?
Any professional who uses email, phone, video calls, or AI tools at work, plus the teams and families around them. RAISE is especially relevant for the roles attackers target most: payment-capable staff, executive assistants, IT and HR, executives, and public-facing employees. Its family lessons also help people protect elders and teens from voice-clone and extortion scams.
Do I need a technical or cybersecurity background to take RAISE?
No. RAISE is written for everyday professionals, not security specialists, and none of its core habits require technical skill. It teaches process over gadgets: pause, verify through a channel you already trust, then act; use unique passwords, multi-factor authentication, and prompt updates; and report fast. Ideas like prompt injection and least privilege are explained in plain language.
How can you tell if a phone call or video call is a deepfake?
Often you can't, and RAISE teaches you not to rely on trying. The best voice clones and video deepfakes show no glitches, and caller ID can be spoofed. Instead, judge behavior, such as a rush to money, resistance to callbacks, or demands for secrecy, then verify out-of-band by calling back on a number you already had.
What is out-of-band verification?
Out-of-band verification means confirming a request through a channel that is different from the one it arrived on, chosen by you rather than the requester, and established before the request existed, such as a saved contact or the company directory. RAISE calls it the golden rule: a callback on a known number defeats even a perfect voice clone.
What is a family code word, and how does it stop voice-clone scams?
A family code word is a pre-agreed phrase that is never posted anywhere, so a voice clone built from public audio cannot know it. RAISE pairs it with the callback habit: hang up and dial the person's real number. The course walks you through setting this up at home, including gently rehearsing the callback with elders.
What topics are covered in the RAISE course?
RAISE has six modules: Module 1: The AI Threat Landscape; Module 2: The Human Firewall; Module 3: Securing Your AI Tools & Data; Module 4: Personal & Digital Safety; Module 5: When It Happens: Incident Response; and Module 6: Building Your Resilience Program. Topics range from AI phishing, voice clones, and business email compromise to prompt injection and family safety.
Will RAISE teach me how to use AI chatbots and agents safely at work?
Yes. Module 3 explains how AI tools become targets through prompt injection, data leakage, poisoning, and shadow AI. RAISE teaches a pre-paste check for approved tools and work accounts, prompt hygiene that strips identifiers, verifying AI outputs in proportion to the stakes, least privilege for agents and integrations, and keeping a human on irreversible steps. It is vendor-neutral.
What will I be able to do after completing RAISE?
You'll be able to recognize the five AI-enabled attack families, verify requests out-of-band, apply payment controls against business email compromise, use AI tools without leaking data, secure your accounts and digital footprint, set up a family code word, report suspicious contact including near-misses, take the right first-hour incident steps, and help build a lasting resilience program.
How is RAISE different from annual security awareness training?
Traditional training teaches you to spot fakes by their typos, generic greetings, or odd audio, and AI erased those tells. RAISE trains the pressure decision instead: pause, verify through a channel you already trust, then act. It rehearses that decision across email, phone, video, AI tools, and family scenarios so it becomes a reflex rather than a one-time module.
What should you do if you clicked a phishing link or sent money to a scammer?
Act immediately. RAISE teaches that if you clicked a link or entered a password, you report it to security, change that password everywhere it was reused, and revoke active sessions. If money moved, call your bank's fraud line right away, since recall windows run in hours, and report to law enforcement, such as the FBI's IC3 in the US.
Is the RAISE course content up to date?
Yes. RAISE addresses today's AI-enabled threats, including voice cloning, live video deepfakes, AI-upgraded business email compromise, and prompt injection against AI tools and agents. Because attack technology changes quickly, the course centers on process-based defenses, such as out-of-band verification and fast reporting, that do not depend on spotting fakes and keep working as tools improve.
How long does the RAISE course take to complete?
RAISE has about 1.5 hours of video across 20 short self-paced lessons in six modules, and lessons run a few minutes each. Allow extra time for the RAISE Certification Exam at the end. Because you can pause and resume whenever you like, it's easy to complete in a few sittings.
Is RAISE online and self-paced?
Yes. RAISE is 100% online and self-paced, and your access does not expire. You can start, pause, and resume any time on a computer, tablet, or phone with a modern web browser. There's nothing to install, and you can revisit lessons like out-of-band verification or the family setup whenever you want a refresher.
Is there a final exam for the RAISE certification?
Yes. RAISE ends with the 30-question RAISE Certification Exam, a multiple-choice test drawn from all six modules. You need 80% (24 of 30) to pass, and retakes are unlimited. Knowledge checks inside the lesson videos let you practice along the way. Complete all 20 lessons and pass the exam to earn your RiseCert RAISE certificate.
Do I get a certificate after finishing RAISE?
Yes. After completing all 20 lessons and passing the RAISE Certification Exam, you can download the RiseCert RAISE certificate. It is a course credential, a certificate of completion, not a license, not a professional certification issued by a licensing body, and not a continuing education (CE) certificate.
Can RAISE be used for continuing education (CE, CPE, or CEU) credit?
No. RAISE is not currently approved or accredited for continuing education (CE, CPE, or CEU) credit by any state or licensing body. If you need hours for a license or professional credential, choose a course approved by that body. RAISE is designed to build practical AI safety habits that complement required training, not replace it.
How much does RAISE cost, and can my team or family take it?
RAISE is free to enroll: create a RiseCert account and start, with no payment and no subscription. Because there is no cost, coworkers and family members can each create an account and take the course. For an organization-wide rollout, contact RiseCert through the Contact Us page at risecert.org.
What is the refund policy for RAISE?
RAISE is free, so no payment is taken and no refund applies. For paid RiseCert courses, all sales are final and no refunds are issued, per the RiseCert Terms of Use, so review a paid course's description, lesson list, and FAQs before purchasing.
Is RAISE legal or security-consulting advice?
No. RAISE is educational content, not legal, security-consulting, financial, or professional advice. It teaches habits that reduce AI-enabled risk but cannot guarantee you or your organization will never be compromised. Organizations should follow their own policies and consult qualified advisors, such as legal counsel on data-breach notification duties, for specific situations.