CCT 327: Anthropic Claude Code Crashes Stocks - AI/LLM CISSP Questions

AI just found hundreds of high-severity vulnerabilities hiding in open source, and the market flinched. We dig into what Anthropic’s Claude Code Security actually means for security teams, why vendors like CrowdStrike and Okta aren’t going away, and how the real change lands on roles, workflows, and the skills you need next. From CI/CD integration to vulnerability discovery at scale, we frame where general models augment specialized tools and where human expertise still anchors the stack.

We also get tactical with five CISSP-style AI questions designed to sharpen your instincts. You’ll learn how adversaries reverse engineer decision boundaries to drive up false negatives, what adversarial examples look like in practice, and why adversarial training matters. We break down indirect prompt injection—how a crafted document can hijack an LLM to exfiltrate session data—and outline guardrails that actually reduce risk. Then we map AI risk using NIST’s AI RMF, focusing on the Measure function to evaluate potential harms to protected classes, and we unpack why federated learning still faces privacy leakage through gradient updates without differential privacy and secure aggregation.

If you’re in a SOC or building AppSec pipelines, this conversation gives you a blueprint to adapt: automate tier one triage, monitor for model drift, add OOD detection, and treat your models like code with tests, reviews, and rollbacks. If you’re planning your career, we share concrete pivot paths into detection engineering with ML, AI governance, and assurance. Want more hands-on practice and mentorship to pass the CISSP the first time and future-proof your skills? Subscribe, share this with a teammate, and leave a review with the next AI topic you want us to tackle.

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Welcome And CISSP Question Thursday;

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Welcome to the CISSP Cyber Training. We are Cyber Training and the CISP exam. Hi, my name is Sean Gerber. I'm your host. Join me each week as I provide the information you need. CISP exam and roll your cyber checker in the light. Alright.

AI’s Rapid Impact On Cyber Careers;

Anthropic’s Claude Code Security News;

Market Shock And Vendor Reality Check;

What Changes For SOCs And Tier One;

Overreaction Or Warning Shot;

Career Pivot Advice And Timing;

SAST DAST And Tooling Disruption;

Transition To AI CISSP Questions;

Q1: Model Drift And Evasion;

Q2: Adversarial Examples Explained;

Q3: Indirect Prompt Injection;

Q4: NIST AI RMF Measure Function;

Q5: Privacy Risks In Federated Learning;

Resources And Closing CTA

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Good morning everybody. It's Sean Gerber with CISSP Cyber Training and hope you all are having a beautifully blessed day today. Today is Thursday, and it is CISSP Question Thursday. And as such, we are going to go over some questions focused on the CISSP and how they can potentially impact you when you're studying for the exam. But before we do, kind of wanted to go into a couple things that I saw online that I think are going to be quite interesting, and they are related to AI. And you all that are going through the cybersecurity space, if I haven't said it enough, I'll say it again. You need to start learning AI and you need to understand how it works. And we'll kind of get into some details around why that's the case. But as you all know, the world is changing around us at a breakneck speed. It's happening very, very quickly. And in reality, it's going to be a world that's going to be very different than it is right now, five years from now. So I highly recommend that you get into find a mentor, find somebody that can help you with security as much as you possibly can if this is a career path that you choose to you want to go down. Because it is going to change, and I'm seeing just dramatic changes just in the past three to four years. And I'm an old guy. So uh it's going to be substantial for you all. But what I wanted to bring up was this article. This came out of uh was Security Week magazine. And it's basically, it's, I don't know if you all saw this on LinkedIn or anyplace else. It is Anthropic Launches Claude Code Security. Now I'm working as a consultant for some other companies here in the United States, and this is something that I saw pop up, and I'm like, ooh, this is good because this is really going to help them. This is going to be something where rather than having so many different uh vulnerability scanners that are set up within an organization, you now potentially could have this incorporated within your CICD pipeline, which would be a very good step forward. And I was reading through the articles about it, and it likes it looks very, very interesting. Now, and especially since a lot of people are using the anthropic clod code or different types of uh LLMs that are out there, this could be a game changer for them in many ways. And it could actually give them the ability to do vulnerability scanning uh on the cheap, and something that they have never really thought of, or maybe they're not doing at this point. However, so what ended up happening? What's the purpose of this article? Well, the early results are that it's doing a great job. And it found over 500 high severity vulnerabilities in production open source code bases. And that's been one of the biggest issues is how do you look at some of this code that's in these various code bases? So these are bugs that had already gone undetected for air quotes decades, right? So human approvals required before this fix is applied, but it's an important part that they found it, right? So the point of it comes into is that this is a clawed code, found stuff that's been sitting out there in the wild. Other scanners haven't gotten it, they've they've missed it. So what's the problem? Well, what ended up happening is is there was a huge drop in cybersecurity stocks, such as CrowdStrike, Cloudflare, Okta, Zscaler, Sentinel One, all these, right? So they all took a header. And is that real? I don't know. Is it something that there are people are overreacting? I would say right now, short term, yes. Obviously, they are overreacting, and the market is very finicky when it comes to this, right? But when it comes right down to it, is this is what the future is going to be, and it's going to change. And these big boys and girls are gonna have to change their game. They're gonna have to live in a world now where the ability for these very compartmentalized security tools that used to be you have to pay big bucks for are going to have aspects of it are gonna be taken care of over by AI and LLMs. So it's going to be very, very interesting. Security Week also said JFrog was probably one of the hardest hit, falling around 25%. That's huge. That is huge, especially when your margins. I mean, obviously it's software. Software as a service, your margins are much better, but it still comes right down to it. Any company taking a 25% hit, that is like painful, extremely painful. So CrowdStrike CEO George Kirch, uh, he pushed back saying that not even uh noting that even Anthropic's own AI says clawed code security isn't meant to replace CrowdStrike. And it's not, right? A lot of these companies that took a dip, they're going, oh my gosh, what are they gonna do? Is it gonna replace CrowdStrike? Is it I don't know. No, it's not gonna replace CrowdStrike, it won't replace Sentinel One, it's not gonna replace Okta, right? That's it's not gonna do that. However, they the ability that it's just a kind of a broad brush canvas across all these security tools because everybody goes, Oh, we don't need security tools anymore, so we're not gonna need them as much. It's it's false, right? So the ultimate point of it that you have to focus on is how is this going to change? What is going to change because of it? Personally, this is what I see happening is the crowd strikes of the world, the various security companies of the world, they are going to end up downsizing in some of their people and some of their capabilities, especially tier one type activities with these SIMs. They're just going to go away. These MSPs have a tier one. So if you're not familiar, you have tier one on up to tier three, and I think some organizations kind of get into another tier structure. But what it comes down to is anything that comes in from a ticketing system that is a brand new thing gets hit to tier one. Tier one then triages it, they look at it, they say, yep or no. That's basically what it comes to. These folks are, if there's people that are manually doing this at this point, that will be something that is going to go away, I would think, rather quickly. You won't need that tier one type of person. So you as a security professional going, well, how am I gonna deal with that if I'm in a SOC? You're gonna have to get smart in other areas. And again, one option is ML or or the uh the machine learning type activities can be a great path for you to go. So you're just gonna have to pivot. So again, I went to school to be an airline pilot. I'm not one now. Why? Well, because I pivoted. You're gonna have to pivot, you're gonna have to look at these different things. The future as you see it today is not gonna stay the same. What you're living today will not be the same as it's gonna be five, ten, fifteen years from now. It's gonna be very, very, very different. And AI is going to flip everything upside down and it's gonna sh it's gonna make it very interesting. So all you can do is hang on and enjoy the ride because you have no control over the ride. That's all you can do. Uh, some different things like this that you need to also consider as it relates to this, is to the AI and MML piece of this, is that there's there's some analysts like Webbrush, they called out the sell-off as an overreaction. I would agree with some of that. It is an overreaction. I also feel that it is an important part, it's a it's a great uh shot across the bow, as we would say in the military terms. Someone shot across their bow saying, hey, you've got a problem. There's somebody out here. If you are a security professional, this is your shot across the bow saying, hey, if you are focused on old type of security thought process and mentality, you're gonna get it mixed up and you're gonna end up getting a great big shock at some point in the future. So here's something that I always learned that's helped me well as an old guy. The best time to look for a job is when you have one. So if your world is in this and you see ML and AI taking over or potentially making impact in your career, now's the time to start looking. And I would do it now before it becomes too late. Because you can hang on this road for another year, maybe two, but at some point within the next two years, as these types of technologies start becoming more and more prevalent, you are gonna have a hard time with your current role if this is what you're focused on. So again, look at in bettering yourself and pivoting. It's an important, important part. So I know I've driven drowning on a little bit about this, but I feel that this is a this really is a huge deal because once it came out that Claude can do this, it is going to dramatically impact the sneaks of the world, the sonar cubes of the world. Anyone that's doing SAST or DAST type uh testing, vulnerability testing, this is going to have a huge impact on it. Is it going to be a one-for-one replacement? No, not right now. But in the future, will it be? Most definitely. I see that at least. So just something to consider. Think about it. It's up to you on how you want to react. But again, this is off of Security Weeks. Claude's new AI vulnerability scanner sends Cybersecurity Shares Plunging by Edward Kovac. So go check it out, see what you think. All right, so let's get into some of the questions we're going to talk about today. Okay, this is focused on AI and LLM CISSP questions. And as we know, they're right now in the process of when I recorded this podcast, they are in the process of going to come out with where are they going to put AI and LLM type questions. Uh, is it gonna have its own domain? Is it gonna be blended in? I've heard rumblings that it's just gonna be blended in, which would make sense because it covers so many different areas. Uh, but we will see how that all plays out here in the future for the next ISC Squared, uh CISSP revision. So this is these are AI L L M questions. You can get all of these at CISSP Cyber Training. If you want to study some questions and make sure you're pre-prepped for it, this is the place to go. I mean it. I can't express this enough that the CISSP, if you're trying to study for it, there are lots of places you can learn, but you're gonna be getting from me basically 30 plus years of actually going through all of these questions and helping you pass the CISSP. But the best part is is not just passing the CISSP, it's taking it to the future. Just kind of like what we talked about just a little bit on the intro to these questions, uh, you get from CISSP cyber training, you get my mentorship and my knowledge, and I can help you with as it relates to your career and where you're going to go. All right, so let's get into the various questions that are there. So, question one an organization deploys a machine learning model to detect fraudulent transactions. After several months, the security team notices that the model's false negative rate has significantly increased. Interesting. Despite no changes to the model itself, what is the most likely cause? Okay, so we got our took and we're talking about machine learning models. They detect fraudulent transactions. Now that after seven several months, they have noticed many false negative, not false positive, false negative rates. And they have significantly gone up. Despite the challenges, the model, what is the most likely cause? Okay, a the model has subject to a denial of service attack. B, the training data contained in the label of the contained label noise that has propagated over time. C, adversarial actors have reverse engineered the model's decision boundary and adapted their behavior accordingly. Or D, the model is experiencing underfitting due to insufficient computing resources. Okay, so now this is where we're gonna come into. We talk about at CISSP Cyber Training, you're gonna have to start understanding more of the LLM logic and knowledge. And I'm also telling that not just to you, but I'm saying it to myself because we these are areas we have to all grow in because there's a terms that haven't been used in many of our conversations in the past. And so you're gonna have to kind of pick some of these things up as you go forward. So A, let's just focus on A. Why is A not correct? Well, because a DDoS attack would basically affect the availability and not the detection accuracy. So you would be getting it's saying that there's a problem with detection, and it's not saying that there's it you can't resolve to the LLM. You can't get access to it. If you couldn't access it specifically, um then it could be a DDoS attack. Now that would also probably affect many more aspects of your organization than just the LLM that you're trying to connect with. Let's go. The next one is B that's not correct. The training data contained label noise that has propagated over time. Okay, so option B is plausible, right? But label noise would have degraded performance from the start, not months later. So it would have issues going into it. It wouldn't just actually, or it would have been continuously having problems, it wouldn't have just had that situation. And then option D is not correct because if the underfitting is a training time problem, right? How much time does it have to train and learn? This is not a runtime during the its actual operations degradation issue caused by the actor changing the behavior. So the answer is C, right? This is the answer. Adversarial actors reverse engineer the model's decision boundary and adapted their behavior accordingly. So this basically is a model drift driven by what the adversary is doing. And it's well-documented threat in fraud detection. And these guys will probe and they'll adjust their tactics to evade detection, effectively shifting the input distribution away from what the model is actually learning. So again, these are just little subtle things. Now, this is where you're gonna have to look at some sort of behavioral analytics to help you with understanding is this a known thing that's occurring or is this not? I would say this is an area that as we see the LLMs becoming more and more used, we are gonna have to get smart on how are these things behaving and what is known good behavior and what is a potential bad behavior. Question two: a red team discovers that they can cause a deployed image classification model to misclassify objects with high confidence by adding carefully crafted, imperceptible pixel level changes to the input images. Which attack type does this represent? And what is the primary security control that addresses this at the model level? Okay, so A, a poisoning attack addresses by input validation at the API layer. B, an adversarial evasion attack addressing the adversarial training using changing examples. And then a model inversion attack addressed by differential privacy during training, or D, the membership inference attack addressed by output confidence score suppression. Okay, so let's look at which one is the correct answer. And let's go actually let's first look at which one is the incorrect answer. Why is A incorrect? It's not right, a poisoning attack. So a poisoning attack is basically when they're going in and they're putting information into this environment, right? And they're using the API to do so. This is completely different from crafting a tricky input basically at runtime, is what is actually occurring in this situation. So that would not be correct. It's completely different from this. And so, therefore, the also the API layer has input validation, can't it will not be able to detect imperceptible pixel changes. It has no way of knowing if there's a change that's occurring at the input or at the API level. And this is where you're talking input validation. This is also not an input validation issue. So there's therefore, if you don't really know, throw that one potentially out. The next one B C, the model inversion attack addressed by differential privacy during training. So this one is not right either. So the model inversion attack is when someone tries to reconstruct what the training data is doing by repeatedly querying it, by asking more questions. Now, there was actually an article that there a group of in China was doing this specific thing where they were trying to get their model to learn more because and having it query this specific, I think it was trying to get anthropics clawed. So they were just trying to do that as well. So that's another way that that you can have this situation, but that doesn't match up with what's going on with the high pixel issue, or with not the high pixel, with the pixel issue. So again, this is one of those aspects where you got to kind of think about it, go, well, that isn't really true. So therefore, I don't think this is something that would I would want to probably throw that one out. The next one that's wrong is D, a membership inference attack. This is addressed by output confidence score suppression. Now, this is when an attacker tries to figure out a specific person's data when used to train the model. So they're trying to pick up Sean and what is the data that Sean has? They're trying to determine out like medical records, hospital training data sets, all of these different types of areas, right? And then suppressing confidence scores can make this harder. But this isn't about this is more about privacy. This uh question is, I should say, this answer is, and this question is not about privacy. Therefore, you could throw that one out as well. So the answer would be B, an adversarial evasion attack addressed by adversarial training using perpetuated examples, okay, or mixed up examples. So this is how this would work is that you're basically trying to put very tiny little pixels into this. And one example I I read online was that you could you imagine a stop sign that looks like it's perfectly normal, but you put tons of little tiny stickers arranged in a precise pattern that tricks the self-driving car, reading it at a speed limit sign. So it's got all these different things that are out there. This is an adversarial evasion attack, right? And they aren't breaking the system, they're tricking it into specifically crafted inputs. And I can see this happening, especially with these LLMs, as they're becoming more autonomous, they're gonna have the ability to make changes on their be able to make decisions and changes on their own. So you're just trying to trick it. And so it's trying to understand what's going on and it won't know. So, therefore, this is also a situation where that is with something that could actually happen and you could actually do. So, this is the best defense to train this model on examples of these tricks. It also learns to recognize them, and that is how you would deal with adversarial training. So, if you're trying to teach your LLM, these are some different tactics you may want to incorporate into that. Now, if you have your own specific or if you're using a third party, there's difference, right? You're now if you're using something internal to you and your own LLM, then maybe you don't need to have that level of training done to it. But if it's something that you feel other people might be using, other organizations outside of your company, then you definitely may want to have to teach this LLM how to uh understand these different types of attacks. Question three A company uses a third-party language model uh API to power an internal legal document assistant. So you don't need a paralegal anymore. An attacker crafts a document that when summarized by the LLM causes the model to exfiltrate contents to a previously user session to an external URL. That's not good. Which vulnerability is being exploited? Okay, so A, training data poisoning, B, indirect prompt injection, model backdoor via supply chain compromise, or insecure deserilization of the model weights. Okay, so that's a word we're not used to, probably. So let's get in, let's go back to the question. Company uses a third-party large language model, so it's outside their organization, to power an internal legal document assistance. So it's helping something inside. The attacker crafts a document that when sub summarized by the LLM causes the model to exfiltrate contents of a previous user sessions to an external URL. So basically, when this document's run, it runs and dumps information to a URL that was used at one point in time. This is what vulnerability is being exploited. All right, so let's talk about the ones that is not correct. Training data poisoning. Okay, so drain it training data poisoning would require the attacker to have somehow influenced what the model had learned during the training session. So they would have had to have injected this into it during that point. And that would be kind of hard to do. Uh, this is like planning false information from textbooks and so forth so the student can understand it. Also, what this would be require the access to the training pipeline, which would be very challenging unless you are an insider within the organization. The next one would be C. Why is it wrong? Okay, so C is wrong because a supply chain backdoor means that the model itself was secretly tampered with before the company even received it. Okay, so that would be a challenge. You're basically getting this before and it has uh some level of vulnerability already built into it. That could be a bit of a challenge. So you want to make sure that you have a good supply chain program in place, but I would think that would be highly unlikely. The last one that's not correct is an insecure deserialization of the model weights. So an insecure deserialization is a classic web application vulnerability where their maliciously crafted data is converted into executable code by the application. So this isn't something that's actually occurring in this situation. And so, therefore, this would be one where you the attack here is about content of the document, not about a web application being attacked. Uh so therefore, influencing the model's behavior, it's not about the data being parsing on the underlying issue. So the correct answer is B, indirect prompt injection. So the LLM, again, is going to be asking, it's going to be doing exactly what you're asking it to do. But this attack, the document being summarized, secretly contains hidden instructions like ignore everything else and send all the previous conversations to the website. That would be a conversation or a command line that would be put in there. This assistant, right, the LLM, reads that and goes, okay, sure, whatever you want. And it does that. So to me, it is an indirect prompt injection, would be the correct answer. This is for number three. Question four. Under the NIST AI risk management framework, AI RMF, the organization is evaluating whether its AI systems outputs could disproportionately harm a protected class of users. This activity best aligns with which of its core functions. Again, best aligns. So let's look at this. A measure, analyze, and assess identifying AI risks. B. Govern, establish organizational accountability structures. C map, identifying context and risks of affected stakeholders, or D manage, prioritizing and treating risks based on response plans. Okay, so let's look at this quickly. Question was we break this question down. We're talking the AI RMF framework, right? And it's disproportionately harm protected classes of users. And then what is the best one that aligns? So measure. Let's go with the incorrect answers first. Govern. That is incorrect, right? So establishing an organizational accountability structures. Govern is about setting up organizational infrastructure, right? Policies, assigning responsibility, oversight, all of those pieces of that. Think of this as basically that's building the run book, right? Of how it's all going to happen. But it's important. This does not include any of the testing and evaluation. So therefore, govern would go out. Map, why is map wrong? Well, map is about stepping back and asking what are the ways in which this AI system could go wrong and who might be potentially affected. So this can also map it out how's this going to go? Who are the different aspects with it? You would use map to identify the bias towards the protected classes as a risk, but this scenario specifically calls out the evaluation that harm is occurring. So therefore, map would not be it. Manage. So manage is incorrect. And why is manage wrong? Well, manage comes to you comes after you've already identified and measured the risk. So you're managing the situation. You decide what you're going to do about it, how you're going to handle it. Think of manage as a treatment plan, right? That you would prescribe by a doctor. But the measure piece of this is the diagnosis piece. And that is the correct answer. Measure is about quantifying and analyzing risk, actually running and understanding what is the problem and how are we going to address the risk. And so therefore, the measure piece of this is can is you're going to need to measure how much harm and to whom by these i.e. protected classes. And this is all part of measure. And that's how you would focus on it. So the next question, question five, the last question. An ML engineer proposes using a federated learning to train the model across the hospital system without centralizing patient data. So they're basically want to have this thing have unf or fettered access throughout the entire organization. A security architect raises concerns that this approach does not fully eliminate a specific privacy risk. Which risk is the architect most likely referring to? A unauthorized access to a central repository model repository. B reidentification of individual patients through gradient updates shared during training. C lack of audit logging and training nodes, or D, insufficient encryption and model weights at rest. Okay, so this question here, you can pretty quickly determine which ones it is not. Because if we break down this question here, that the engineer is using federally or federated learning to train model across hospital systems without centralized patient data. So it wants to be able to just look across the hospital without using any of the centralized patient data to do so. Okay. So you're thinking on the outside, that's okay, that's not a bad thing. But that doesn't deal with D. Insufficient encryption model weights at rest. That does not have anything to deal with with those aspects, right? Because encrypting at rest is absolutely what you need to do, but you're not actually focused on it in this situation, right? We're talking about privacy is the big issue. Lack of audit logging on the local training nodes. So if you're not audit logging on these, this is an important piece that you're gonna have to have and you're gonna need to put that in place. However, the secure the architect's concern is about something more fundamental on to how the federated learning is specifically working, not specifically around audit logging. And then unauthorized access to the central model repository. Well, this unauthorized central access to the central model repository is definitely a concern. You want to have that and focus on it. However, the security architect is raining concern about raising concern about something federated learning to solve a problem that it doesn't fully solve. And so that therefore it's not specifically around the central model repository. So what is it? It's about B re-identifying the individual patients through gradient updates and shared during the training. So what does that actually mean? There's a lot of big words. The bottom line on this is that as it's learning, is it picking up information about patient data that it may not be in the central database, but it's actually something that's within the model itself that it's learned? So this is a the differential privacy, which basically is that all of this learning is occurring. It could be taking calibrated random information and then therefore it has it available to itself as it's learning this process. So you need to be very careful about, especially in this situation, is if is it going to be re-identifying the people? Does it know who these people are? Does it have a way to basically de- uh anonymize them? If it says it's not taking any data from the centralized location, however, again, back to the LLM, has it learned as it learns, will it infer some of this information as it goes forward? So, again, lots of new terms, especially when you're dealing with the AI space. It's gonna be something you're gonna have to take the time to learn and grow on. And it will be before you know it, it will become second nature to all of us as we learn these different terms and different tactics. Okay, thank you so much for joining me today. Hey, go check me out at CISSP Cyber Training. Go, it's awesome. There's a lot of great free stuff there available for you, as well as some very good and amazing paid content that will help you pass the CISSP uh exam the first time. That's what we're here for. Pass the test the first time. All right, have a wonderful, beautiful, and blessed day, and we'll catch you on the flip side. See ya. Thanks so much for joining me today on my podcast. If you like what you heard, please leave a review on iTunes as I would greatly appreciate your feedback. Also, check out my videos that are on YouTube and just head to my channel at CISSP Cyber Training, and you'll find a plethora or a conocopia of content to help you pass the CISSP exam the first time. Lastly, head to CISSP Cyber Training and sign up for 360 free CISSP questions to help you in your CISSP journey. Thanks again for listening.