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IBM: Mastering Generative AI for Cybersecurity

Intermediate 8 hours English Verified CertificateFREE

About this course

Rav Ahuja teaches how generative AI is reshaping cybersecurity: user and entity behavior analytics (UEBA), threat intelligence, automated incident report summarization and playbooks, countering phishing, malware, misinformation, and deepfakes, plus NLP-specific attack vectors like prompt injection. The course also covers how gen AI is changing SIEM and SOC workflows for incident response, threat detection, and vulnerability management.

The honest take: this is an Intermediate-level course assuming you already have cybersecurity fundamentals — it's about layering generative AI skills on top, not learning security from scratch. Comes with hands-on labs and a final project, which is more practical than many generative-AI overview courses.

What you'll learn

Apply generative AI to UEBA, threat intelligence, and security report summarization
Use generative AI to counter phishing, malware, misinformation, and deepfakes
Streamline SIEM and SOC tasks with generative AI tools
Integrate generative AI into incident response, threat detection, and vulnerability management
Recognize NLP-based attack techniques like prompt injection and how to guard against them

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Rav Ahuja is IBM's Global Program Director for the IBM Skills Network, leading curriculum strategy for AI, data science, and cloud courses on edX.

Requirements

  • Existing cybersecurity fundamentals knowledge — this is not a beginner security course

Who this course is for

  • Working cybersecurity analysts and SOC professionals
  • IT security staff wanting to add generative AI skills

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Yes — this is an Intermediate-level course that assumes existing cybersecurity fundamentals.
Yes — hands-on labs throughout, plus a final project applying the skills.
3 weeks at 2-3 hours per week.
Free to audit; $49 for a verified certificate from IBM.
Yes — it covers integrating generative AI into SIEM and SOC workflows specifically.
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