Level 2 · Hybrid
Advanced Program in Cyber Security
An intermediate, practice-heavy program that builds job-ready defensive (blue team) skills and introduces offensive (red team) techniques so defenders understand what they are defending against. It follows the Fundamentals course and prepares learners for SOC and security-analyst roles.
Key facts
- Duration
- 4 months (16 weeks)
- Time commitment
- 10–12 hours per week (170 hours total)
- Mode
- Hybrid
- Prerequisite
- Cyber Security Fundamentals (Level 1) or equivalent; BTech in Computer Science/IT or Cyber Security Specialization
The market's strongest entry-level demand is for defensive roles: SOC analysts, security analysts and incident responders. This program is weighted toward blue-team skills: hardening, monitoring, detection, vulnerability management and incident response. A dedicated module then introduces offensive security, because effective defenders need to understand attacker methods first-hand. The course closes with a purple-team capstone where learners attack a lab environment and then detect, investigate and remediate the same attack.
Module-by-module curriculum
01 Secure Infrastructure & Hardening
- Network security, defence-in-depth and secure architecture
- Linux hardening
- Windows and Active Directory hardening
- Perimeter defenses
02 Security Monitoring & SIEM
- Logging fundamentals
- SIEM concepts and architecture
- Detection rules and alerting
- Monitoring workflow
03 Threat Detection & Intelligence
- IDS/IPS concepts
- MITRE ATT&CK
- Cyber threat intelligence
- Threat hunting basics
- Traffic analysis for detection
04 Vulnerability Management
- Vulnerability scanning
- Risk scoring and prioritization
- Patch and configuration management
- Vulnerability reporting
05 Incident Response & Digital Forensics
- IR lifecycle (NIST): prepare, detect, contain, eradicate, recover
- Incident triage and handling
- Host forensics basics
- Log-based investigation and timeline reconstruction
06 Endpoint & Cloud Security
- Endpoint protection and EDR
- Endpoint hardening and application allow-listing
- Cloud security fundamentals
- Cloud monitoring and logging basics
07 Introduction to Offensive Security
- Ethical hacking methodology
- Exploitation basics
- Web application attacks
- Post-exploitation basics
08 AI Attacks & Securing AI Systems
- AI threat landscape and attack surface
- Adversarial machine-learning attacks
- LLM and generative-AI attacks
- Securing AI systems
- AI for defence
09 Capstone Project
- Attack phase: attack simulation
- Detect and respond
- Harden and recommend
- Presentation and viva: present findings and defenses to a panel
Eligibility
- Minimum qualification
- Certified professionals, IT professionals, and graduates with fundamental cyber security knowledge
- Age limit
- 18–55 years
- Minimum percentage
- 60%
- Stream / branch
- BTech in Computer Science/IT or Cyber Security Specialization
- Work experience
- Not mandatory
Selection process
- Round 1Application screening
- Round 2Cyber Security Fundamentals and aptitude test
- Round 3Personal interview
- FinalMerit list