Generative AI for Cybersecurity is a four-course specialization that helps professionals and career-switchers harness the power of AI to strengthen both offensive and defensive security. You’ll gain hands-on experience using AI-driven tools for penetration testing, automated defense, phishing detection, and organizational culture change. Designed for early-career IT staff, security enthusiasts, and technical professionals, this program moves from red-team and blue-team techniques to real-world applications of AI for compliance, communication, and leadership. Learners build technical fluency in automation, ethical AI use, and advanced defense, while developing the mindset to lead secure, AI-enabled workplaces.
Applied Learning Project
Across this specialization, you’ll complete real-world projects that apply AI directly to cybersecurity tasks.
In Course 1, you’ll conduct AI-enhanced reconnaissance and vulnerability scanning using ethical penetration-testing tools.
In Course 2, you’ll automate blue-team workflows through AI-driven SOAR playbooks and network traffic analysis.
In Course 3, you’ll design and defend against AI-powered phishing and social engineering attacks using open-source tools like SniperPhish and PentestGPT.
In Course 4, you’ll build leadership projects that translate technical defense into cultural transformation—creating policies, ROI cases, and communication plans that make cybersecurity a shared responsibility. Each project combines practical scripting, business communication, and ethical evaluation, ensuring graduates can implement AI security solutions that work in live environments.
