ChatGPT for Cybersecurity: AI Tools for Threat Defense

This course features Coursera Coach! A smarter way to learn with interactive, real-time conversations that help you test your knowledge, challenge assumptions, and deepen your understanding as you progress through the course. Learn how ChatGPT is revolutionizing the cybersecurity landscape by enhancing protection, accelerating response, and empowering professionals to stay ahead of threats. This course provides a comprehensive overview of how AI—specifically ChatGPT—can be applied to threat intelligence, incident response, vulnerability management, and automation. With hands-on examples, practical use cases, and prompt engineering techniques, you’ll gain the skills to integrate AI tools into everyday security operations. The course begins by building foundational knowledge of ChatGPT’s architecture and capabilities, followed by its role in threat intelligence and how it can streamline complex tasks like summarizing threat reports and profiling threat actors. You'll then move through its applications in incident response, including detection, containment, eradication, and recovery. Subsequent sections focus on vulnerability management, automating workflows through scripting, and using ChatGPT for security awareness and training. You’ll also explore ethical AI usage, biases, privacy concerns, and responsible deployment practices. This course is ideal for cybersecurity professionals, IT teams, SOC analysts, and AI enthusiasts with a basic understanding of cybersecurity concepts. No prior AI experience is required, though familiarity with cybersecurity fundamentals will enhance your learning. By the end of the course, you will be able to use ChatGPT for real-time threat analysis, automate security tasks with Python scripting, design engaging security awareness training, and implement AI responsibly in cybersecurity workflows.