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Learner Reviews & Feedback for Introduction to Cybersecurity Tools & Cyberattacks by IBM

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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

AG

Aug 14, 2020

The reading link to Week 03's Framework and their purpose is Broken. Please Fix it. Everything else seemed perfect. I would recommend this course for people who think of starting their careers in CyS.

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 FELIPE-ANTONIO L

Mar 3, 2022

Good introduction to cybersecurity. Too much theory at some point. The key problem is that some recordings are really bad quality. Others, like Kenneth Gonzalez ones, were very good and easy to learn from.

By Muhammad H

Jul 11, 2020

Overall, the instructors were good and the content was very much informative mainly for beginners but I think they should have taught us about how to use a specific tool which they discussed in the course.

By Dexter A

Mar 31, 2024

This course will walk you through the basic foundation of cybersecurity protocols, cybersecurity attack, and hands on activity with detailed instructions and many more. This is a very informative course.

By Adam K

Apr 23, 2022

The course offered a wealth of information about cybersecurity. The one problem was that sometimes the speakers and the text did not match up. Other than that it was an informative and enjoyable course.

By Seelam R S

Dec 18, 2020

The course is introduction of Cyber security. In first Two weeks of course just history of cyber security, How it started and now how it is.

And last two weeks are some interseting Concepts are explained.

By Alva L

Apr 19, 2021

Some of the topics seemed to have an audio issue making it difficult to hear and to understand. Easier access to the transcript would be helpful. Overall this course was a good introductory experience.

By Rayan S

Apr 25, 2022

Good introduction course. Some slides and videos were a bit messy but overall it was really helpful. They provide you a lot of helpful resources that are perfect for someone starting out in this field.

By Jonathan D

Oct 15, 2021

Great introductory course. The mobile app makes it easy to learn on the go at your own pace. Some of the audio is a bit patchy at times, but the ability to review the transcript helps make up for it.

By Susan A N

Sep 5, 2023

The level of difficulty is just right with a lot of foundational information needed for a cybersecurity career start. Some of the online instructors were not audible enough during their presentations.

By BRIDGET B S

Jan 9, 2023

This is a very good cause. My problem is video transcripts, they have lots of mistakes. If you can improve that I would give it 5 stars. I am very grateful for the bursary that I received. Thank you.

By Michel B

Jul 28, 2022

Great information, useful knowledge , I just have one thing to say otherwise, to chek out the grammar. I do better learning by reading instead of listening and that was a little bit of a distraction.

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.