First Recon Academy

The Academy is First Recon’s own learning platform, with structured courses and certification paths for the people who run AI security programs.

Access comes with a First Recon AI account, using the same sign-in as the platform.

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Curriculum

First Recon Academy has certifications and a multitude of courses along several core tracks that you can navigate through below. This content is regularly updated to keep you current with the latest information and trends.

Certifications

First Recon AI Certified PractitionerEarned by passing the certification exam in the Partner Certification Prep course, just below.
First Recon Certified: Identity for Agents SpecialtyEarned by passing the specialty exam that caps the Identity for Agents track.

Certification Prep

Partner Certification PrepEverything partner engineers need to pass the First Recon AI certification exam. This course runs as its own track, separate from the leveled course tracks below.

Practical AI and agent fluency for everyday knowledge work.

Prompting and Delegation Fundamentals101Build the core skills of working with AI assistants: briefing, delegating, and verifying.
Everyday AI Workflows102Apply assistants to the work you already do: documents, meetings, research, and data.
Agentic Workflows for Teams201Scale individual AI wins into team playbooks, handoff contracts, and quality bars.
Advanced Personal Automation202Run multi-step agents with tools, approval gates, and guardrails you control.
AI Adoption Programs301Coming soonDesign an org-wide adoption program: champions, policy, training, and measurement.
The Frontier Operator302Coming soonOperate at the frontier: orchestrate multiple agents and evaluate new capabilities safely.

Ship production software with coding agents inside a governed SDLC.

Agentic Coding Fundamentals101Pair with a coding agent: context curation, task briefs, and review discipline.
The Agentic Inner Loop102Run the agentic inner loop: locked tests, red-green-review cycles, disciplined debugging.
Team SDLC with Coding Agents201Bring agents into team delivery: PR contracts, review gates, and CI as the referee.
Migrations & Large Changes202Run migrations, wide refactors, and performance work with verifiable agent workflows.
Governing Agentic Development at Scale301Coming soonDesign the org program: policy, provenance, security gates, and honest adoption metrics.
Verification-First Delivery302Coming soonOperate multi-agent pipelines and autonomous maintenance on a verification-first foundation.

Design, orchestrate, and operate agent systems in production.

Agent Anatomy101Take a working agent apart and understand the loop, context, tools, memory, and evaluation basics.
Building Production Agents102Ship your first production agent with a real harness, prompts managed as code, and tests that gate deploys.
Agent Orchestration Patterns201Coordinate multiple agents with handoff contracts, queues, and human checkpoints that hold at scale.
Agent Reliability Engineering202Engineer agent reliability: eval suites, regression protocol, drift detection, and observability.
Agent Fleet Management301Coming soonGovern a fleet of production agents with identity, permission, budget, audit, and lifecycle controls.
Frontier Agent Operations302Coming soonOperate at the frontier: self-improving systems, incident response for agents, and governance at scale.

Defend AI systems and govern the risks they introduce.

The AI Attack Surface101Map the AI attack surface: prompt injection, data leakage, and model-layer risk.
Defending AI Applications102Harden AI applications with boundary controls, least privilege, and isolation patterns.
Securing Agentic Systems201Contain agents that act: tool permissioning, sandboxing, approvals, and action audit.
Red-Teaming AI Systems202Red-team AI systems methodically and turn every finding into a permanent eval.
Building an AI Security Program301Coming soonStand up an organization-wide AI security program, from inventory to compliance.
Frontier AI Defense302Coming soonDefend the emerging surface: multi-agent systems, AI supply chain, and new standards.

Prove which agent is acting, on whose authority, with exactly how much power.

Identity Foundations for AI Agents101Separate user, workload, and agent identity, and size every agent credential to its task.
Engineering Agent Identity and Delegation201Implement token exchange, attestation-based issuance, and MCP authorization for agent fleets.

Platform mastery for First Recon operators.

Platform Fundamentals101Navigate the First Recon AI console, core policies, and everyday workflows.
DLP Essentials101Understand the three-layer DLP pipeline and tune detections with confidence.
Shadow AI Discovery101Find and govern unsanctioned AI tools in use across your organization.
Guardrails & Governance102Design guardrail policies and governance workflows for AI usage at scale.
Advanced DLP Operations102Operate Advanced DLP at scale: decisions, async output jobs, and evidence.
AI Incident Response Playbooks102Coming soonBuild and rehearse response playbooks for AI security incidents.