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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.

SH

Jul 5, 2023

This course was a great source of information and explanation to the world of cybersecurity, It gave me a strong motivation to go forward with whole course and learn more about this fascinating field.

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By Lonnie G

Feb 28, 2021

Course has great information that will set you on the way to your goals. Course could stand updating with better quality audio.

By Mihir Y

Jul 17, 2020

The content is very powerful and the quizzes do actually test your focus in the course. The only downside is the audio quality.

By Shivana G

Feb 17, 2021

The information was good and interesting, but the lecturers were boring and some i could hardly understand their pronunciation

By Hector H R

Oct 21, 2022

The audio, some times was difficult to understand, due the type of conection used, maybe becasue was made throug cellphone?

By diviA

Jul 2, 2020

Course/material is great, but some of the video speakers are not easy to follow due to background noise, muffled sounds, etc.

By Manojaya S S B

Nov 18, 2020

Course material is good and the concepts explained are great. Only need is to record audio in better way update the courses.

By Grigorijs M

Sep 21, 2020

The information was very helpful and important, but the audio quality leaves a lot to be desired. Still, a fantastic course!

By Maranda X

Jul 15, 2023

Easy to follow along and complete on spare time. Definitely covers all of the basics of cybersecurity. I really enjoyed it.

By Ricko M

Jul 5, 2020

Despite audio quality, overall great foundation especially for someone who doesn't have any networking/computer science bg.

By Julie B

Apr 15, 2020

Great course, but some of the speakers were hard to follow and understand. I'm glad there were transcripts for each video.

By Inavolu R

Mar 7, 2020

very useful course more content .But audio is not good sometimes you need to increase volume more .

I enjoyed the course :).

By Ankit G

Jan 23, 2021

This course helped me a lot in learning about various cyber attacks, malware, cryptography and many more skills like this.

By Adrien L

Jun 23, 2020

Course is good, but the quality of sound and sometimes sound coming before picture. But the quality of the course is good

By Mintu K

Jun 16, 2020

The course was good. I have learned a lot of new things. But after completion of the course i haven't received the Badge.

By Akash G

Sep 22, 2019

The course itself is very informative, but the proof-reading/subtitles have not been done very well. Good course overall.

By Aryan N

Oct 7, 2020

course is very informative but audio in some videos is no quite good, replace it asap so other students will not suffer.

By Kazár P

Apr 21, 2020

Sometimes the sound quality was really bad, hard to hear out the words, but overall it was a great course of the basics.

By Ermanno M E

Nov 23, 2021

The course is very interesting and well constructed, but there are some videos whose audio is very noisy and inaudible.

By lionel m

Feb 28, 2021

j'ai tellement appris sur la cybersécurité en ce cours ,avec beaucoup de nouvelles compétences acquises merci coursera

By Deric J

Oct 6, 2019

Very informative, though sometimes the questions for quizzes would have the wrong answer listed as the correct answer.

By Kponemaro K

Jun 14, 2023

It was a wonderful experience!Although some of the audio was not audible.Nevertheless the course was worth the while.

By Muhammad Z

Jul 28, 2021

no offense but lecturers need to improve on their speech but overall plenty cybersecurity related topics were covered

By Arun J

Jul 11, 2021

Content was good. But audio recording from Instructors are not very clear as we can find in other learning platforms.

By gourav s

Aug 6, 2020

This is nice course for me I am learning lots of things about cyber security key ,firewall and many others ....

By Muhammad A B

Oct 12, 2022

the Audio quality was very low and the content was too much brief and was not enough to understand for a beginner ,