B.Tech in Computer Science & Engineering (Hons.) ( Lateral Entry )

with specialization in Cyber Security and Threat Intelligence ( In association with Quickheal )

  • Course Level

    Course Level
    Undergraduate

  • Course Fee

    Course Fee
    INR 2,77,500
    US $ 4,900

  • Duration

    Duration
    3 Years

  • Scholarship

Program Coordinator

MANAV RACHNA INTERNATIONAL

Mr. Agha Imran Hussain

Assistant Professor

 
about
about
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Cyber Security & Threat Intelligence specialization is designed to address the industry’s increasing demand for skilled security professionals in the public and private sectors. This program is specifically meant to improve mindfulness and redesign the abilities of engineering graduates. The program is designed by industry experts keeping in mind the current industry needs vis-à-vis academic proficiency of the students. This specially designed program helps to bridge the gap between industry and academia so as to create an employable workforce ready to take on challenging roles in the domain of cybersecurity.

Specialization also focuses on knowing the dark web, adversaries, and their tools, tactics, and procedures (TTP). Using this knowledge students can build intelligence-led security programs, where the intelligence gathered on the field about adversaries leads to security decisions and investments. It builds a solid foundation towards understanding various aspects of Cyber Threat Intelligence and provides a quick kick start towards targeted and result-oriented threat research.

 

Programme Highlights

Curriculum Design and Course Material by Quick Heal Academy

Course Delivery by Industry Experts in collaboration with Faculty

Regular Tech-Talks, webinars and Seminars by Experts

Placement and Internship Support

Cyber Lab to the status of “Centre of Research and Training”

 

Career Path

  • Information Security Analyst
  • Digital Forensic Examiner
  • IT Auditor
  • Security Software Developer
  • Security Engineer
  • Incident Response Specialist
  • Ethical Hacker/Penetration Tester
 

USPs

  • Curriculum design & Course material by Quick Heal Academy
  • Classroom delivery by Industry Experts in collaboration with faculty
  • Industry Hand Holding for Curriculum Designing, support for Placement & Internships
  • Regular Tech-Talks, webinars, and Seminars by experts
  • Placement & Internship support
  • New assessment parameters (Project-Based Learning, Case study based, Open Book, Quiz)
  • Opportunity to work on live projects & real-life problems under industry mentors
  • Tech-Talks and Seminars by Industry experts for students
  • Regular support by Expert during the semester for students and faculty members
  • Industry Visit support for Students
  • Get exposure to contemporary and sought after areas like cybersecurity, cyber forensics, cyber threat intelligence, blockchain, malware analysis and many more.
  • Learn about the tools, tactics, and procedures (TTP) of bad actors to formulate appropriate defense mechanisms.
  • Empower with skills that enable you to lead with an intelligence-led approach in cybersecurity.
  • Learn how to actively monitor systems and networks for intrusions.
  • Perform security audits, risk analysis, network forensics, and penetration testing.
  • Learn to establish techniques to collect samples from different sources that help to start profiling threat actors.
  • Define Cyber Threat Hunting and articulate its value to an organization.
 

Benefits

Choosing to specialize in Cyber Security and Threat Intelligence within a B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) program offers several benefits, particularly in the context of the increasing importance of cybersecurity in today's digital landscape.

Here are some advantages:
  • High Demand for Cybersecurity Professionals: Cybersecurity is a critical concern for organizations globally. Graduates with expertise in this area are in high demand as companies seek to protect their systems, networks, and sensitive data from cyber threats.
  • Hands-On Skill Development: The specialization involves hands-on learning experiences, allowing students to develop practical skills in areas such as ethical hacking, penetration testing, cryptography, and security analysis.
  • Incident Response and Forensics: Learn how to respond to cybersecurity incidents and conduct digital forensics investigations. This skill set is valuable for identifying and mitigating the impact of security breaches.
  • Stay Ahead of Evolving Threats: The specialization focuses on understanding and staying ahead of evolving cyber threats, ensuring that graduates are well-equipped to deal with the constantly changing cybersecurity landscape.
  • Ethical Hacking Skills: Gain skills in ethical hacking, allowing graduates to identify vulnerabilities in systems and networks and recommend measures to strengthen security.
  • Industry-Relevant Curriculum: A specialized curriculum tailored to the latest industry standards and best practices in cybersecurity, ensuring that graduates are well-prepared for the challenges they will face in the workforce.
  • Certification Opportunities: Specialized programs often offer opportunities to earn industry-recognized certifications in cybersecurity, enhancing graduates' credentials and increasing their competitiveness in the job market.
  • Networking Opportunities: Specialized programs often provide networking opportunities with cybersecurity professionals, industry experts, and potential employers, facilitating connections that can be beneficial for career growth.
 

Placements

Top Recruiting Companies

Amazon, Nokia, Infosys, Pinkerton, Apple, Boeing, Capital One, Cisco, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, General Motors, Intel, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Patient First 


 

FAQs

Department of Computer Science & Technology offers:

  • Ph.D. in Computer Science – Minimum duration for submission of Ph.D. thesis is three years, including coursework and a maximum of six years.
  • M.Tech Computer Engineering – It’s a full time 2 years degree program.
  • B.Tech Computer Science & Engineering – It’s a full time 4 years degree program.
  • B.Tech Computer Science & Engineering with specialization in Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, in collaboration with Xebia – It’s a full time 4 years degree program.
  • B.Tech. Computer Science & Engineering with specialization in Cloud, DevOps & Automation, in collaboration with Xebia – It’s a full time 4 years degree program.
  • B.Tech in Computer Science & Engineering (specialization in Cyber Security & Threat Intelligence) in association with Quick Heal- It’s a full time 4 years degree program.
  • B.Tech in Robotics & Artificial Intelligence Engineering.- It’s a full time 4 years degree program.

All programs offered by the DoCST follow Choice Based Credit System (CBCS) where a student has the flexibility of choosing courses of his choice and interest. The department offers a large basket of electives that lead to distinctive specialization. Our major differentiators are:

  • Our teaching pedagogy focuses on “learning-by-doing” which aims to bridge the gap between industry and academia.
  • Incorporation of new technology in the curriculum aims to bridge the gap of skilled manpower requirements. Focused industry ready syllabi with each vertical defined in the curriculum aims to create a platform for specified fields (Cloud Computing, BigData, Neural Networks, Business Analytics, Apps Development, Web Development).
  • Computer lab components added to all MRU courses ensure that the student is involved proactively in the learning by doing approach.
  • The department has collaborations with many external organizations like Infosys, Microsoft, AWS, Quickheal, Xebia who work in association with the departments to impart education to the students on cutting edge technology.

Yes, DoCST has collaboration with following industries:

  • Xebia
  • Quick Heal
  • Microsoft
  • AWS
  • Infosys

At MRU, the core faculty comprises distinguished academicians (PhD, GATE, NET qualified) from the best institutions and leading professionals from the corporate world with rich industry and research experience. DoCST uses STEP (Simulated Teaching EnabledProgrammes) methodology which adds dynamism to the teaching methodology implicating the “tools” that further provide the hands on practice for progressive, consolidated learning and implementation, with excellent pedagogic techniques like teaching through demonstration, analogies, case based learning, scenario playing, depicting the concepts through flash movies, role plays etc.

The Department uses Windows, Linux, Cloud based platforms and virtualization techniques for instruction (Labs) and course assignments. We provide numerous computing facilities for our students, faculty, and staff. The department offers extensive computer labs in the different areas of computing. The student-computer ratio in the lab is 1:1 and the faculty-student ratio in the computer lab is 1:15 which aims to facilitate our learning by doing pedagogy.

Some of the major achievements are highlighted below:

  • Karan Aditya Ghosal (KPMG Canada), 60 Lakhs (international Placement).
  • Ananya Kamra (Alto Palo Networks) 51 Lakhs.

3 international Placements in 2023:

  • Karan Aditya Ghoshal KPMG, Canada 60.
  • Sarthak Rastogi, Space and Time Labs, Newport Beach, California, United States, 55 LPA.
  • Deepanshu Sharma équipe Nutrition Canada 30.
  • Ms. Charu Goyal, Mr. Aditya Sharma, Mr. Ansh Ohri, Mr. Simar Jyot Singh Narang and Drishti kemni have been awarded with Certificate of Participation, Young Professionals - Women in Engineering Congress 2022 (DSSYWC’22), Organized by IEEE Delhi Section 2022
  • ASHWANI SONI,has been awarded BVICAM’ Coding Challenge 2022, Organized by Bharatiya Vidyapeeth Institute of Computer Application and management (BVICAM)
  • Parul Taneja, Minhjul Hossain, Parikshit Sharma and Ravi Prakash, B.Tech CSE 4th year students achieved 3rd position, Bronze Medals, Cash Prize of 5000/- and goodies at HackPhoria, 24 hrs Hackathon organized by Bennett University on 14 – 16 Feb 2020.
  • Parikshit Sharma, Ravi Prakash, Shivam Shukla and Shiv Kumar, B.Tech CSE 2nd year students secured 1st position in Hackrcdu with Certificates, Cash Prize of 8000/- organized by Hackrcdu, Hackathon in Ramanujan college (DU) on 27th feb and 28th feb 2020.
  • Parikshit Sharma, Ravi Prakash, Shivam Shukla, Shiv Kumar, students of B.Tech CSE 3rd year as Team +impact wins first position at ‘HackRcdu’ Hackathon and cash Prize of 8000/- with goodies on 7th March 2020 at ‘HackRcdu’, a Hackathon held at Ramanujan college, University of Delhi.
  • Karan Rajoria. B.Tech CSE student of 3rd year was Selected as “Industrial Relation Coordinator” Member of “Delhi Section Student Network Team” IEEE Delhi Section on 27 May 2020.
  • Varun Prakash, Raghav sagar, B.Tech CSE DSML specialization students of 3rd year presented a Research Paper on “When Cartoon Meets Anime Distinguishing Animation Styles ith Convolutional Neural Networks” (Online) Paper Presentation at ICIEM 2020 (Scopus Indexed IEEE conference) organized in collaboration with IEEE UK and Ireland Section on 18 June 2020.
  • Niharika. B.Tech CSE 4th year reaches the Semi Final Round of Re Think Tank Session, organised by QS I Gauge on 10 June 2020.
  • Minhajul Hossian, B.Tech CSE student of 4th selected to become one of the mentors for the Garuda Hacks event on 14 – 16 August 2020 event organized by Garuda Hacks Indonesia’s Premier Global Hackathon.
  • Rishabh Dhiman, Mrinmoy Mitra, Aayush Singh, Deepak Bhardwaj, Vishakha Tyagi and Aman Gupta, B.Tech CSE students of 4th Sem received 1st position, winner under SW category for MK206 problem statement of Ministry of Rural development in Smart India Hackathon 2020 and 1 lkh prize money on 4th Aug 2020.
  • Students of B.Tech CSE, Mukul Singh and Parul Taneja, participated in an international competition ‘YASH 2020′ organized by the Foundation of Global Science Initiatives (FGSI) and won ‘Silver Medal’ in the category of master age group on 16-18 January 2020.
  • Team1:Karan Aditya Ghoshal, Prince Kaliraman, and Deepak Rana; Team2: Ashwani and Yatharth, B.Tech CSE students, participated in an international competition ‘YASH 2020 organized by the Foundation of Global Science Initiatives (FGSI) and won ‘Silver Medal’ in the category of master age group on 16-18 January 2020.
  • Co-Founders of Zenith Vipers &Workolab, Ensure Equity: Yuvraj Bhardwaj &Yashraj Bhardwaj are Co-Founders of Zenith Vipers &Workolab, Ensure Equity. They are 18 years old Researcher & Entrepreneur and own 22 Research Projects, and also have 7 patents on their name. They have been research collaborate with many institutions. They are also the recipients of Karmaveer Chakra Award 2016 and the winners of SF fellowship 2017. They are among top 30 Young Entrepreneurs across the world by Success Magazine. They are also the youngest Indians to enter the final nominee list of Padma Shri 2018. They got “The Eagle Award” from Government of Malaysia, which is one of the highest award in Malaysia by Government on 2017 Independence Day.
  • Global Science, Technology & Innovation Conference (G-STIC) 2017: Akanksha Ahuja, student member Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences Cluster) participated in the Global Science, Technology & Innovation Conference (G-STIC) 2017. She emerged as one of the top three winners in the Student Challenge category all over the world. She has now been invited to participate in G-STIC 2017 being organized in Brussels from 23 to 25 October to present her idea.
  • Google Summer of Code 2017 internship: Kartik Sibal, B.Tech CSE has successfully completed Google Summer of Code 2017 internship, contributed to the open source project “AboutCode” and received 2400 USD.

There are various positions for which a Computer engineer can apply in most of the software companies. Some of the positions are:-

  • Application Developer
  • Database Administrator
  • Business Systems Analyst
  • Data Analyst
  • Database Manager
  • Mobile Apps Developer
  • Game Developer
  • Enterprise Architect
  • Hardware Designer
  • Network Administrator
  • Mainframe Systems Manager
  • Project Manager

  • DT Consultant
  • Data Architect
  • Cloud Developer
  • Full Stack Developer
  • Test Automation Engineer
  • Cloud Administrator
  • DevOps Engineer
  • Frontend Developer

  • Data Scientist
  • Data Engineer
  • Business Analyst
  • Data Analyst
  • AI/ML Engineer
  • Business Intelligence Engineer
  • Research Scientist

  • Information Security & Risk Analyst
  • Junior Cyber Security Analyst
  • Infosec Analyst and Trainer
  • Internal Auditor
  • Sales – Cyber Product and Services.
  • IT Support

  • Along with the prospects of a high salary, it provides the opportunity to learn cutting-edge technology and achieve tremendous growth.
  • Robotics engineer
  • RPA Engineers
  • Computer Scientists
  • User interface Engineer
  • Control engineer
  • Automation Engineers
  • Design engineer
  • Industrial and process control Engineer
  • Aerospace Engineer

Yes, the department is offering an ITR (Introduction to Research Course) course in the initial years of the program and the department also has area specific research groups. Students can get connected with these groups and reach out to faculty members whose research area they find to be intriguing, to pursue their research work at undergraduate level. Various students’ Research clusters are formed in following areas:

  • Data Analytics And Big Data Architecture
  • Architecture And Analysis Of Communication Network
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Emerging Web Technologies And Applications
  • Data Mining
  • Network Securities

The office of Dean Students offers various social/ cultural societies and technical committees. Our students are associated with social clubs like Jeevandayni, Rotary Club, Lion’s Club and Red Cross Society, involved in different social services like blood donation camps and relief camps. Department has formed student branches in association with different technical societies like IEEE, ISTE and NPTEL. The student branches are regularly organizing competitions and technical events at the regional and national level.

Yes, MRU degree is as good as the one awarded by any central or state university. A Bachelor degree holder from MRU can also apply for higher studies in any of the Indian or overseas universities.

A student shall be required to have a minimum attendance of 75% in a course to be eligible for appearing in the end semester examination.

There is a scholarship policy at Manav Rachna for Sports persons and meritorious students, Refer the scholarship page for more detail .

According to AICTE guidelines the minimum credit requirement for graduating from MRU in B.Tech CSE course is 160 and B.Tech CSE with specialization is 180 and B.Tech in Robotics & Artificial Intelligence Engineering 30 .

(a) Completion of Minimum Credits:

As specified in the curriculum, completion of minimum credits of the program shall be the condition for the award of the degree. These credits should be earned under different categories as follows:

  • All core courses as defined in curriculum scheme;
  • All University mandatory courses;
  • All summer trainings;
  • At least two electives offered by parent department;
  • At least one elective offered by other engineering department;
  • At least one elective offered by sciences (Mathematics/Physics/Chemistry etc.) Department
  • At least one elective offered by Department of Humanities;
  • At least one elective by the Management Department.

(b) Lower and Upper Limits for Credits Registered:

A student must register for a minimum of 14 credits and a maximum of 29 credits in a semester. The minimum credits registered should include at least 2 courses under the category of hard courses which can be core or elective with first preference to core.

(c) Credits Earned at Different Universities / Institutes:

Provision shall be made for acknowledgement of credits earned by a student through coursework/project work/internship.

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B.Tech Computer Science and Engineering Comprehensive understanding of fundamental concepts. Versatile education Ideal for individuals interested software development, systems design Strong base in Algorithms 2,49,000 Wide industry oppurtunities Conduct testing and validation procedures Apply creative thinking to design and improve mechanical systems Global Opportunities for international careers and collaborations
B.Tech (Hons.) in Computer Science & Engineering with specialization in Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning offered in association with Xebia. Specialized knowledge in AI and ML High demand for professionals Solve complex problems. Create intelligent systems 2,95,000 Integrating digital technologies with manufacturing processes Automation System Integration Data Analytics Proficiency Global Manufacturing Competence
B.Tech (Hons.) in Computer Science & Engineering with specialization in FullStack Development offered in association with Xebia. Enables efficient resource utilization cost-effective solutions. Ideal for businesses looking to leverage cloud services Optimised resourses Practical Applicability 2,95,000 High demand for cloud architects, Opportunities in DT Consultant Full-Stack Developer Test Automation Engineer Cloud computing skills Expanding their cloud infrastructure.
B.Tech (Hons.) in Computer Science & Engineering with specialization in Cyber Security & Threat Intelligence offered in association with Quick Heal. Secure software development. Digital Forensic Examiner Focused Expertise Practical Applicability 2,95,000 Cybersecurity professional Forensic Analyst Data driven Priority Oppurtunities in cloud Management Cloud computing skills
B.Tech Robotics & Artificial Intelligence Innovation and Problem Solving Machine Learning Expertise Robotics Design and Development Optimised Resource Practical Appblicablity 2,41,000 Computer Scientists User interface Engineer Control engineer Automation Engineers

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