
- Domain
Cyber Security
- Batch
01
- Course Duration
12 Months
Programme Overview
In today’s times, technology has made advances in how it influences modern business. With the growth in digital adoption, the volume of attacks and the nature of the cyber threat is evolving. Learn to eradicate cyber threats by reskilling with one of the third generation IITs in India, IIT Palakkad- Post Graduation Certification in Cyber Security. This interdisciplinary Cyber Security programme is highly timely due to ever-increasing cyber threats to businesses and government bodies.
Pedagogy consists of exciting topics like technical and policy aspects of cyber security, insight on cryptography, malware analysis, network traffic analysis, emerging threat analysis and much more. Participants will acquire hands-on practices in malware analysis by using sandboxes for static and dynamic analysis. Moreover, learners will analyse network traffic and network system logs using security information and an event monitoring system.
Admission Criteria

Eligibility
- Bachelor degree in CS, EE, ECE, EIE, IE
- Minimum 2 years of work experience
About IIT Palakkad
Established in 2015, the Indian Institute of Technology, Palakkad is dedicated to creating an environment that enables students and faculty to engage in the pursuit of knowledge, to dream, think and innovate thereby becoming change agents for a better world. Having begun with just 120 students in July 2015, IIT Palakkad has since grown into an establishment that is about a thousand students strong and with the best of manpower in key positions. IIT Palakkad aims to become a multi-disciplinary institution with 5000 students by its 10th year. The Institute recognises collective growth, in collaboration with industry and other academic institutions, as the need of the time and emphasises blue-sky research and directed research as two essential pillars of technology development. It embraces a vision to be a leader in cross-disciplinary inquiries and contributes to India’s demographic dividend’s potential for the country and the world, which is embodied in the institute’s motto “Nurturing minds for a better world.”
The IIT Palakkad Advantages:
- The Centre for Industry Collaboration and Sponsored Research (IC&SR) at IIT Palakkad represents an attempt to institutionalise such outward accountability in the education imparted here.
- Established a Technology Innovation Hub on Intelligent Collaborative System (TIH-ICS) as a part of the National Mission on Interdisciplinary Cyber-Physical Systems (NM-ICPS)
- Recognized as a Nodal Centre for Training in High-Performance Computing (HPC) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) by the National Supercomputing Mission, an initiative of the Government of India, in 2020.

Programme Highlights
Alumni Status and PG Certificate
Online Lectures and Practice Sessions
Top-Tier Faculty from IIT Palakkad
World-Class Industry Experts
Live Discussion and Doubt Clearing Sessions
Hands-on Training and Capstone Projects
Admission Process
- 1
Eligibility of Applicant
- 2
Application Submission
- 3
Screening & Shortlisting
- 4
Admission & Fee Payment
- 5
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Syllabus Breakdown
- Introduction
- Cyber Crime
- Information Security
- Cryptography and cryptanalysis
- Computer Ethics and Security Policies
- Network fundamentals
- Attacks
- Introduction to ethical hacking
- Graphical Network Simulator 3
- Network sniffing and Nmap
- Introduction to web security and penetration testing
- Web application vulnerabilities and attacks
- Post exploitation
- Introduction to malware analysis and lab set up
- Static and dynamic analysis
- Malware in DLLs
- Finding malware loaded in memory and through other artifacts
- Analysis and managing security risks
- AI for cyber security
- Writing Secure Code
Programme Fee Details

- No cost EMI available.
Total Fees
INR 1,10,000/- + GSTInstallment Pattern

1st Installment
INR 60,000/- + GST2nd Installment
INR 40,000/- + GST3rd Installment
INR 10,000/- + GSTEarn a Career Certificate
Post Graduation Certification in Cyber Security IIT Palakkad for those who successfully complete the prescribed course of study and fulfil all other academic requirements.

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Yes! All participants will receive an alumnus tag from India’s top-tier institute, IIT Palakkad.
Professionals, who have up to 2 years prior experience in the following fields:
- Developer
- Tester
- Data Scientist
- Data Engineer
- Software/Hardware Engineer
- Application Administrator
- Artificial Intelligence Security Specialist
- Automotive Security Engineer
- Blockchain Developer / Engineer
- Blue Team Member
- CISO/CSO
- Cloud Architect
- Counterespionage analyst
- Cryptanalyst
- Cryptographer
- Cyber Insurance Policy Specialist
- Cyber Security consultant