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According to a recent IBM report, cyberattacks have surged 71%! This alarming statistic highlights a huge demand for cybersecurity professionals. This IBM course will introduce you to fundamental cybersecurity concepts, threats, and preventive measures to start your cybersecurity journey. In this course, you’ll explore the evolution of cybersecurity and discover the critical thinking model. You’ll also cover threat actors, malware, ransomware, and defenses against social engineering. Additionally, you’ll learn about internet security threats and security controls. You’ll explore the fundamentals of identity and access management (IAM), authentication, and access control. You’ll also look at the physical threats organizations encounter and consider effective security measures. Throughout, you’ll build practical knowledge through hands-on labs and gain technical expertise through insights from industry experts. Your final project will enable you to effectively demonstrate your understanding of cybersecurity principles. This course is for anyone who wants a basic understanding of cybersecurity and is part of a series designed to help you start a career as a Cybersecurity Analyst....

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MS

Jul 2, 2024

Thrilled to announce that I've completed the Cyber Security course on Coursera! Excited to apply this knowledge to protect and secure digital environments. #CyberSecurity #ContinuousLearning #Coursera

NA

Apr 1, 2024

"Thrilled to complete my first course in Cybersecurity - a perfect blend of tools and tactics. Insightful, engaging, and foundational. Highly recommend to anyone starting their cybersecurity journey!"

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By Reggie V

Dec 3, 2020

It's a good introductory course that covers the main subjects of cybersecurity. I'd like to see some of the subjects in a more detailed explanation, because they were merely presented to the audience.

By Amit A

Mar 31, 2022

The quality was great but some videos in between had voice issues and it was kind of boring to only head to theory and not have any practical sessions but overall a great course for basics and theory

By Alula G

Mar 17, 2022

Great Course Content and Explanation. Some Audio problems cost it *. Audio could have been better for most of the course parts. Thank You IBM for offering this course. Thank you all the instructors.

By abhay p

May 3, 2020

ofcourse, it was knowledgable and consisted of people genius in their field. however, the sound quality of these lectures were very poor and intercepted the student's ability to study for long hours

By Andreas N

Apr 27, 2020

The quality for the material needs to be improved in terms of visualization and audio. The title is little bit misleading as i expect to be more insides to Cybersecurity tools like nmap nesus etc...

By FRED S

Apr 10, 2020

Some video issues (audio problems, spelling issues, editing), the background web app is not particularly good at "handing off" lessons and you will repeat MANY videos, most weblinks are 404 errors.

By boris r

Dec 23, 2021

i do not know what on earth is happening,.., i am quite happy with the course i have finished.. but fora while now, the system keeps on crashing and does not let me access to the next course...,

By MohammadMehrdad S

Nov 29, 2022

It was a good course for having a basic understanding of Cybersecurity. To be honest, I was expecting this course to have more practical exercises rather than just memorizing tools and concepts.

By Kleiver M

Jul 3, 2020

Is a very good course. With valuable information about cybersecurity. Recommended for beginners to want to introduce in this are. The only thing is that some videos have a poor quality of audio.

By Scott K

Apr 26, 2022

It is a few years old, and the audio and video quality was not very good. I did learn a lot about the history and key concepts or cybersecurity, and gained many useful resources. Thank you!

By MD A K

Jul 8, 2020

Well organized and structured course materials found this introductory course, finally, able to retain basics concepts regarding CyberSecurity is now cleared more than average expectations.

By Jennifer M

Aug 25, 2021

Overall a good course. But please fix some of the broken links, and also the English is not the best in the transcripts in some cases (made it hard to understand, when I was reviewing it).

By Neeraj S

Nov 29, 2020

Thanks to IBM as well as the Coursera team for helping us to know about Cybersecurity. We learned a lot of new skills, Cybersecurity Key points, Hackers, Prevention, Safety, and much more.

By Ummi D

Oct 21, 2021

good course. I learned a lot. However I hope some audio and information could be update the latest one. Now is 2021, soon to be 2021. The content mostly around 2016. Hope to improve more.

By Nathan W

Jun 18, 2021

Graphics we're OK. But It was a bit hard for me to understand the people speaking, also some questions in the quizzes were worded poorly. Otherwise I enjoyed this course in it's entirety.

By Jose C P O

Jul 5, 2024

A LOT of bot voice based videos that are not captivating of the info. The ones that really got my attention and got me HIGHLY interested where the ones explained by the IBM specialist.

By Mehedi H A

Aug 3, 2023

This course is great in terms of introductions, but the audio and production quality need a lot of improvements. Overall, I learned a lot from this course which will help me massively.

By Denise S

Mar 31, 2023

I found this course to be explained thoroughly although a few of the instructors were hard to understand. I tried to follow along with the reading and some of the words were inaudible.

By Alejandro S R

Feb 24, 2021

Good course for a brief understanding of cybersecurity. In some parts a bit tedious or not concise, especially the last part, such as "pentest methodologies" and "vulnerability tests".

By Syed Z A

Jun 25, 2021

Well design course. But it still has some problems like there is lot of background noise IBM should record these kinds of course in some kind of control environment like in a studio.

By Fernando M

Jul 19, 2022

Curso com bastante informação e abordagem técnica, ótimos conteúdos e muitas refências. A qualidade do vídeo/áudio dde algumas aulas não estão adequadas para a importância dos temas.

By Martin T

Jun 21, 2020

Very good introduction to the cybersecurity, I am a beginner and I appreciate the quality of the content. However, very poor audio quality (and sometimes video quality too). Regards.

By Rhiddhi P D

May 29, 2020

The course was great BUT the main problem I was facing was audio quality and audiblity, please improve both the thing for easy understanding of future participants.

Thanks....... :-)

By Fernando R

Apr 22, 2020

The overall content of the course is really interesting, the only drawback is that some of the lectures have the audio not in sync with the video. Otherwise, a very complete course.

By Muhammad A K

Jan 25, 2022

Anyone who wants to start his/her cyber security journey should start from this course. It gives in depth primary knowledge from industry's top specialists in cyber security field.