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About the Course

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....

Top reviews

RV

Dec 24, 2020

If you want to learn cybersecurity and you have no idea about that. Then this is the best course which covers all the basic topics and provide you a best knowledge about cybersecurity and their tools.

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 Ronald D

Feb 11, 2023

Great stuff indeed. Learning foundatios of Cyber attacks and defense techniques, a great deal for me. Thank you very much for affording me this opportunity.

By Frankline E

Dec 29, 2022

The course was a good introduction to those wanting to start a cybersecurity career. I found it informative and exciting to my desire for more in this area.

By Donald G

Dec 24, 2020

The course has a good amount of content that is suitable to be people new to the fields. The quality of the audio in some of the videos is not great though.

By Angelo T

Dec 23, 2020

I am rating this course as perfect as five, this course is so much helpful for me to nurture my knowledge about how to secure and defend your cyber network.

By Abdullah M I

Jun 25, 2020

Very good and informatic course specially for the beginners and a great initiative also.

I would like to thanks entire team from lecturers to the presenters.

By Abdirahman A K

May 21, 2023

I AM VERY HAPPY TO DAY TO COMPLETE THIS COURSE AND I WISH IN THE FUTUE IT WILL HELP ME A ALOT , THANK YOU IBM AND COURSERA ALOW ME TO COMPLETE THIS COURSE.

By Kamaldeep k b

Dec 5, 2022

thankyou very much for an interesting course.everything was interesting and informative.I strongly recommend to anyone getting started with cybersecurity.

By MUHAMMAD H

Sep 26, 2022

I learn the basics of cybersecurity tools attacks i really give me more light into building my cybersecurity career.

Thank you so much to the coursera team

By Eslam M R

Aug 16, 2020

Helpful, It gives you all the needed basics to start in the cybersecurity track and to have the general knowledge to take a big step in this career. Thanks

By Loucas P

Aug 4, 2020

To the point course, can get you into speed for reputable certifications like Sec+ etc

Good videos, quizes and exams were to the point.

Excellent experience.

By BAMBA O

Feb 8, 2024

je suis vraiment satisfait du cours d'introduction a la cybersécurité. Grace a ce cours j'ai une vision globale de le cybersécurité. encore merci a vous !

By Michael G N

Aug 18, 2022

Great content! I am new on the cybersecurity world and this course definitrly gives you the basics to have a better understanding of this big cyber world.

By Zakaria H

Jun 5, 2021

this caurse was very detailed and very good and helpful. i have actually leant a lot will forever recommand coursera for any body close to me. thank you.

By Stergios A

Dec 4, 2020

An excellent Introduction to cybersecurity that helps build a broad foundation of knowledge in the field while offering detailed information in key areas.

By Lahcen T

Oct 20, 2020

Very good introduction for non-IT, well structured, and easy to follow. Highly recommended for anyone who wants to get the first picture of cybersecurity.

By Sangeeth A

Mar 29, 2021

Great course. Before I enroll in this course I have no idea about cybersecurity and attacks. I got a strong fundamental after this course. Thank you IBM.

By Azmaan K

Jul 1, 2020

I totally loved the course and expecting to get more learning opportunity from your side. There were some inaudible moments but other than it was good.

By Dennis C

Jan 10, 2024

It was a great course and highly recommended, If you want to have a feel of what cybersecurity entails and also align your passions to the right course.

By Abhilash B

Jul 21, 2020

This course helped make me understand a brief background in the field of cybersecurity. Thanks to the instructors and Coursera for this amazing course.

By Smit G

Jun 11, 2020

Overall course content is nice and informative. But some audio quality must have to improve because so many noise are hearing with the speaker's audio.

By Umuomo M O

Sep 25, 2022

An excllent course I learnt what cyberattacks are, different types of attacks, network security, crytography, cryptographic attacks, and lots more...

By Silvia L

Jul 11, 2021

love the self-paced learning & opportunities to improve my grades! Great content. Overall, a great foundational course in the world of cybersecurity.

By Vyomesh S

Dec 16, 2020

Very good in depth explanation of technical terms and the history of cyber security.Look forwards to the other versions of the cyber security courses.

By Hira A

Aug 3, 2020

I think this is the best course for the beginners to learn. They almost explained everything in detail. I think the beginners should take this course.

By ONGOLU V P R

Jun 29, 2020

This course has given me overall view on cyber security,principles,attacks,

i recommend this course if you are entering or interested in cyber security