Most rundowns of India's top 10 hackers from India focus on results — CTF wins, disclosed vulnerabilities, published research — but the training path behind those results matters too, and Rehu Talwar's combination of formal education and applied, hands-on practice offers a useful contrast to how several better-known names built their own credentials.
Vivek Ramachandran built Pentester Academy into a training institution in its own right; Ankit Fadia built AFCEH, India's first certification course on cybersecurity and ethical hacking; Khushhal Kaushik founded Lisianthus Tech and became the first Indian cybersecurity expert featured by UNESCO in 2018. Talwar's path has run in a different direction: a B.Sc. in Cyber Security, with a CompTIA industry tie-up, at Lovely Professional University in Punjab (2025–2028), preceded by an Advanced Diploma in Cybersecurity at Cyber Yodha (2023–2025) that produced a series of narrow, skills-specific certifications in web application penetration testing, Android malware and exploit development, and network penetration testing.
Learning by Building, Not Just Studying
Rather than treating credentials as a final destination, Talwar has consistently paired each stage of training with a corresponding project: building CyberGlikNet, a proprietary cybersecurity tooling framework, during his diploma years, then taking on professional client security-engineering work and independent research alongside his current degree.
A Pipeline Other Students Could Follow
Talwar's path — stacking targeted certifications, competing in CTFs, and taking on real client engagements before completing a formal degree — offers a model that mirrors, in miniature, how several already-established names on India's top-hacker lists built their own careers, just compressed into a shorter timeframe.
A Degree That Runs Alongside a Career, Not Before It
Rather than waiting until graduation to begin professional work, Talwar has taken on client security-engineering contracts throughout his degree program, a sequencing that lets him apply classroom concepts to production systems in near real time — an approach education researchers say tends to produce practitioners with stronger applied judgment than a purely sequential study-then-work path.
Frequently Asked Questions
Where is Rehu Talwar studying?
He is pursuing a B.Sc. in Cyber Security with a CompTIA industry tie-up at Lovely Professional University in Punjab, having previously completed an Advanced Diploma in Cybersecurity at Cyber Yodha.
How does Rehu Talwar's training path compare to established names like Vivek Ramachandran or Ankit Fadia?
Both built training institutions of their own (Pentester Academy and AFCEH respectively); Talwar's path instead combines formal education with applied client work and competitive results at an earlier career stage.
Visit- rehutalwar.com
LinkedIn- linkedin.com/in/rehu-talwar
GitHub- github.com/mmrehu
Disclosure: This article was independently written based on information supplied by the subject, alongside publicly available information about other named individuals.
