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Cybersecurity Expert, 10+ years, Google, Yahoo Security, 20k+ followers

Use this call to help Karan understand your situation so he can determine what the best way is to support you. It can be 1:1 mentoring, our cohort based cybersecurity courses or subscription products.

We want you to make an informed decision and are here to help.

Discovery call

Feeling stuck, confused about your next move or need guidance? I'm Karan Dwivedi, a seasoned cybersecurity expert with a wealth of experience from industry giants. I’m here to offer you personalized guidance that will propel you to new heights.

During our exclusive 45-minute 1-on-1 session, I will:

- Listen to your challenges and aspirations
- Identify roadblocks holding you back
- Provide step-by-step, actionable tips tailored to your unique situation
- Offer practical strategies to advance yourself

With my extensive background in leading large-scale security projects and contributing to the latest internet standards, conferences, review boards and numerous books, I bring unparalleled insights and expertise to our session.

Let’s turn your challenges into stepping stones for success.

1:1 Mentoring

Introducing the Mentorship/Guidance Bundle – a carefully crafted package designed to empower you with personalized guidance and actionable steps to unblock your challenges.

Here's what you can expect from our collaboration:

Initial Deep-Dive Call: We’ll start by thoroughly understanding your current stage, identifying your challenges, and laying out a roadmap to overcome them.
Follow-Up Session: You'll receive tailored advice and practical action plans to ensure you're well-prepared to seize upcoming opportunities.
Imagine having the confidence and clarity needed to move forward towards your goals. Whether you're looking to transition, seeking guidance on your current challenges, or aiming to future-proof your goals, this bundle is your gateway to success.

Don’t wait to unlock your full potential. Get in touch with me today, and let's start shaping your path together.

1:1 Mentoring Bundle

Feeling exposed on security but not sure where to start? Bracing for the moment an investor, customer, or auditor asks a question you can't answer?

I'm Karan Dwivedi, a security leader at Google with hands-on experience building and scaling security programs at industry giants. I'm here to help you turn security from a source of anxiety into a real asset for your company.

This is a discovery call for us to determine if we are a good fit where I can be your security advisory to scale your company securely.

During our exclusive 45-minute 1-on-1 session, I will:

Understand your business, your goals and desires.
Identify specific risks, deals, and deadlines
Identify the gaps most likely to stall a deal, audit, or board conversation
Provide a path forward to work together
In my advisory services, I:

Work with your to understand what will work for you short term and long term
Provide a clear, prioritized plan of what to fix now and what can wait
Offer practical, jargon-free strategies and technical advice you can act on immediately or hand off to your team
Help you grow your team the right way and make decisions (e.g. when to hire a security inhouse vs consult)
Make genuine connections using my network of 21,000+ followers which includes CISOs, security leaders, investors etc.
Anything else that I can think will help grow your business, both technicall, organizationally or through networking
With my background as a CVSS 4.0 contributor, co-author of Kickstart Your Security Engineering Career, and founder of The Cyber Instructor (serving security leaders and founders across 15+ countries), I bring both engineering-level depth and business-level judgment to our session.

Let's turn your biggest security unknown into one of your strongest selling points.

Security Advisory (For Founders/Executives)

We teach what universities and certifications miss out on - The real practical and insightful training that you can apply and see the difference yourself!

5000+ students have trusted us to guide and upskill them.

We have industry experts with decades of experience who know how cybersecurity works at a deep fundamental level in the industry and how you upskill yourself.

Learn insights and skills to master the field by our expert led sessions 

Fast Track Yourself

We have 1600+ students from 50+ countries who are present in our discord channel. You get instant access to connect with these motivated and skilled highly skilled learners when you join. After all, cybersecurity is heavily built on networking.

Access a global community

If you are not satisfied with our offerings, contact us and we will make it right. We pride on delivering a great learning experience that other courses do not offer. There is a strong reason why 5000+ students have trusted so far!

100% Satisfaction Guaranteed

Why Choose The Cyber Instructor?

Confused how to get started in AI? Tired of watching endless youtube videos? Then come to our lightning lesson where we will share an easy to follow roadmap for you to learn AI in cybersecurity. We will discuss components of this roadmap so you can have a structure to follow.

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Karan Dwivedi

AI for Cybersecurity Roadmap (Sept 2026)

Test your cybersecurity skills by taking our 2026 cybersecurity challenge.

Prizes for top 3 winners of over $3500 in total value. Join to see details inside.

Disk Forensics

DFIR Challenge Solution

Thank you

Infrastructure Challenge

PCAP Analysis

Network Analysis Challenge Solution

Intro to challenge and rewards

Challenge Submissions and Feedback

FAQs

Metasploitable

Pentesting Challenge Solution

Systems Challenge

Systems Challenge Solution

How to get help

Cybersecurity Challenge (2026)

Master AI+Cybersecurity basics with a hands on assignment.

Video Lesson

The Tier-1 Desk

AI for Cybersecurity Essentials

Learn cybersecurity concepts from experts in this extensive 10 week bootcamp. You also will build an awesome portfolio by practical hands on exercises.

Ideal for aspiring cybersecurity engineers, data engineers/ scientists, IT professionals, software engineers, existing cybersecurity engineers who want to level up etc.

Payment plans and scholarships available.

OWASP Webgoat

[IGNORE THIS] Portswigger web application

Application Security

Capstone Project

Process monitoring

Computer Systems Fundamentals - OS fundamentals, Memory management, I/O, Virtual memory

SIEM setup

[IGNORE THIS] Threat Hunting

Detection Engineering - Basics of logging, log types, logging collection, alerting, threat hunting, IDS and IPS rules, metrics

SIEM Setup

Disk image forensics

Memory Forensics

Digital Forensics - Basics of DF, Evidence types, NIST chain of custody, System forensics (file systems), Network forensic. Incident Response - IR Lifecycle, Best Practices

SSL Labs exercise

Cloud Infra Security

Infrastructure and Cloud Security - Firewall basics, IDS/IPSs, Vuln and patch management, Iaas, PaaS and SaaS basics, MFA, IaC basics, Zero trust

Different domains in cyber (Appsec, infra, pentest, detection, DFIR etc), Security mindset, CIA triad, AAA fundamentals

Exercise - Scenario based quiz

Network monitoring

Networking Fundamentals - TCP/OSI layers, Networking protocols, Networking hardware, Networking architecture

Penetration Testing - Attacker Lifecycle, Reporting, Purple Teams, Reverse engineering

Crypto ciphers using CyberChef

Security Fundamentals

PicoCTF

CTFs, Conferences and Capstone Demos

Cybersecurity Bootcamp

Elevate your coding skills to fast track your security career!

Mini Firewall

1D data structures

Whois lookup tool

Python Basics

Capstone

Security Port Scanner with Python

Capstone demos and course wrap up

Credential Store

Common Algorithms

Mini File System

Trees and Graphs

Coding Bootcamp for Cybersecurity Professionals

Lecture on building AI agents

RAG Pipeline for Threat Analysis

AI For Cybersecurity Roadmap

Lightning Lessons

Go from curious to capable in cybersecurity at your own pace, with expert guidance when you need it.

Build your skills with expert content of 27+ hours, 15+ assignments with AI feedback, and monthly live access to Karan.

Ideal for professionals in tech (IT, Software Engineers, Cybersecurity professionals and students, Data Analysts/Engineers, Product Experts etc)  who want to learn cybersecurity.

10+ years at Google, Yahoo building leading cybersecurity initiatives for 1B+ users. Applying AI in cyber since 2015! 20k+ followers on Social Media

Onboarding and FAQs

Included Access

TCI Pro Subscription

Become an AI-first security engineer in 6 weeks!


A live bootcamp for security engineers who want to build, deploy and measure real AI agents and models. No ML background required.

Course includes access to an active discord community, 3 industry experts as guests, github to store your code and certification! 

Classes every Tuesday and Friday 5 PM PST. 

Payment plans and scholarships available.  Enrollment open now.

Founder of DataExpert.io, over 1 million followers on the internet | ex-Netflix and Airbnb |

Zach Wilson

Security Architect, ex-Apple, Netflix | 15+ years of experience | Platform, Identity & AI | RSAC 2026 Speaker | Pioneering AI-Driven Security



Anish Menon

10+ years in cybersecurity, ex-IBM | AI Security and Safety, expert | Professional Speaker

Preeti Ravindra

NIST AI Risk Management Framework

EU AI Act and Responsible AI principles

Break It and Make It

AI red teaming vs traditional pentesting

Attack Techniques and Mitigations

How defenders respond

Key ML concepts every security engineer needs to know

AI/ML metrics to care about

How LLMs actually work (not the hype version)

AI threat landscape

The Specialist

Why local models matter for security

Running open-source LLMs locally

Fine-tuning a model on security-specific data

Evaluating model quality

MLOps for security workflows

Recon by Committee

What agents are and when to use them vs. simple LLM calls

Building a multi-step security automation agent

Tool use and function calling

Chaining agents for complex workflows

Failure modes to watch for in production agents

Live demos of selected student's capstone AI security tools

Leaderboard and winners annoucement

Instructor feedback on projects

Parting thoughts

OWASP Top 10 for LLMs

MITRE ATLAS Framework

Harness Engineering

Prompt engineering techniques that actually work

Building a RAG over your own data

Structuring knowledge bases for security use cases

Model Context Protocols (MCPs) for reliable AI behavior

Preventing prompt injection attacks

Applications in Application Security  (e.g. Vulnerability analysis and patch prioritization)

Application in Infrastructure Security (risk assessment)

Applications in Detection Engineering (e.g. threat and anomaly detection)

Applications in Digital Forensics and Incident Response (accelerate IR playbooks)

Applications in Pentesting (static and dynamic analysis)

Threat modeling AI systems before deployment

Hardening RAG and MCPs

Securing Models and AI supply chain

AI for Cybersecurity (Sept 2026)

Our Course Staff | Threat Intel Expert | Creator of Robin AI tool for investigations | Over 5000+ github stars

Apurv Singh Gautam

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