Certification in Cybersecurity and Ethical Hacking with AI
Batch Starts
January 31, 2026
Course Duration
4 months
Eligibility
12th Pass and Above
Learning Mode
Online
Time Commitment
8-10 Hours/week
1.3K+ students have already registered
Batch Starts
January 31, 2026
Course Duration
4 months
Eligibility
12th Pass and Above
Learning Mode
Online
Time Commitment
8-10 Hours/week
Why choose this Program?
Learn from the experts of the world's leading professional services.
Receive a Certification of Completion from PwC Academy, to showcase your achievement.
Get interview-focused coaching and AI-powered practice sessions — all designed to boost your chances in competitive hiring (Eligibility: 5 CGPA).
Access cutting-edge content, simulations, and evaluations focused on real-time project implementation.
Engage in real-world, case-based sessions that connect theory with practical business challenges.
Learn directly from PwC India’s top-tier faculty and other industry experts.
Open forum session to address participant queries and facilitate discussion on topics covered throughout the program.
Certification from a PwC Academy
Receive a Certification of Completion from PwC Academy, to showcase your achievement.
Industry Readiness
Get interview-focused coaching and AI-powered practice sessions — all designed to boost your chances in competitive hiring (Eligibility: 5 CGPA).
Advanced Curriculum
Access cutting-edge content, simulations, and evaluations focused on real-time project implementation.
Case-Based Learning
Engage in real-world, case-based sessions that connect theory with practical business challenges.
World-Class Faculty
Learn directly from PwC India’s top-tier faculty and other industry experts.
Open Forum Sessions
Open forum session to address participant queries and facilitate discussion on topics covered throughout the program.
*Certificate Eligibility: Minimum 65% overall attendance and 30% marks in cumulative evaluations score
What will you learn?
With cyber attacks rising globally and AI changing how systems are attacked and defended, this program prepares students to become next-generation cybersecurity professionals. You'll master ethical hacking, network defense, secure coding, and AI-enabled threat detection and apply your learning in live labs and simulations. The curriculum is designed to bridge industry talent gaps, empower hands-on learning, and equip learners with AI-powered cybersecurity skills. The program also offers an open forum session to address participant queries and facilitate discussion on topics covered throughout the program.
Toolkit
Course Details
Duration
4 Months
Course Mode
Online
Certification
From PwC Academy
- • History, terminology & career tracks in cybersecurity
- • Types of attacks: phishing, malware, ransomware, social engineering
- • Cyber kill chain & MITRE ATT&CK framework
- • Introduction to adversarial AI and attack simulation using LLMs
- • Hands-on Project: Build your own threat map using open-source data
- • Kali Linux, Metasploit, Nmap, Burp Suite
- • Scanning networks, enumerating systems, and finding open ports
- • Vulnerability scanning tools: Nessus, OpenVAS
- • OWASP Top 10 threats
- • Using AI for automated vulnerability classification and risk scoring
- • Hands-on Project: Recon and vulnerability report on a simulated organization
- • Firewalls, IDS/IPS, VPNs, and honeypots
- • Detecting and responding to intrusions
- • Log analysis and SIEM (Security Information and Event Management)
- • Building an AI-assisted SOC (Security Operations Center) simulator
- • Hands-on Project: Configure Snort, use Splunk + AI alerts
- • Threat modeling & secure software design
- • Code vulnerabilities (SQLi, XSS, CSRF, etc.)
- • Static & dynamic code analysis tools
- • Using AI to scan and refactor insecure code (GitHub Copilot, DeepCode)
- • Hands-on Project: Audit and secure a buggy web application
- • Introduction to machine learning in cybersecurity
- • Anomaly detection with AI (unsupervised learning)
- • AI in phishing, spoofing, and spam detection
- • Generative AI for penetration testing automation
- • Agentic AI: Creating autonomous agents for continuous network monitoring
- • Hands-On Project: Train an AI model to detect unusual traffic patterns
- • Indian Cyber Law, IT Act, GDPR, HIPAA
- • Risk frameworks: NIST, ISO 27001
- • Chain of custody, evidence handling
- • Forensic tools: Autopsy, FTK Imager, Wireshark
- • AI for evidence triage and pattern recognition in large datasets
- • Capstone Project
An open forum session to address participant queries and facilitate discussion on topics covered throughout the training program. This session will be led by PwC experts and is intended to reinforce learning and clarify concepts as part of the curriculum.
Please Note :- Due to the evolving nature of the industry expectations and partner institute feedback, some syllabus aspects may change. Any updates will be communicated during the Inauguration Session(s) or at the start of the relevant module
Meet our Instructor Team
Ankit Goel
Senior Manager - Risk Consulting at PwC India
Ankit has over fourteen years of experience in Cybersecurity and Risk Consulting practice in India. His expertise includes Vulnerability Assessment, Penetration Testing, Web and Mobile Application Sec...
Mansi Srivastava
Manager - Risk Compliance at PwC India
Mansi has over thirteen years of experience in the cybersecurity domain, working with diverse clients, including government entities and financial institutions, across sectors like telecom, e-commerce...
G Karthik
Manager - Risk Compliance at PwC India
Karthik is a seasoned professional in the cybersecurity practice, bringing over eight years of experience to the field. As an OSCP-certified professional, he specializes in cloud and network security,...
Ankit Goel
Senior Manager - Risk Consulting at PwC India
Ankit has over fourteen years of experience in Cybersecurity and Risk Consulting practice in India. His expertise includes Vulnerability Assessment, Penetration Testing, Web and Mobile Application Sec...
Mansi Srivastava
Manager - Risk Compliance at PwC India
Mansi has over thirteen years of experience in the cybersecurity domain, working with diverse clients, including government entities and financial institutions, across sectors like telecom, e-commerce...
G Karthik
Manager - Risk Compliance at PwC India
Karthik is a seasoned professional in the cybersecurity practice, bringing over eight years of experience to the field. As an OSCP-certified professional, he specializes in cloud and network security,...
*Note: Instructors teaching your batch may change based on specific module expertise, or circumstances such as personal emergencies, unavailability etc.