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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 Emin L

Jul 23, 2021

Audio recordings are not good for some classes. I wish they did a test listening before releasing it.

By Shikher G

Jun 7, 2022

A little bit less practical knowledge for beginners, although very resourceful through the theories.

By andrea s

Mar 17, 2021

very interesting course for starting to get familiar with terms and specific topics on cybersecurity

By Navneeth P J

Jul 6, 2020

An excellent course,just had some difficulties understanding some peculiar accents during the course

By Illarion T

May 26, 2023

Not enough materials. The quality of some presentations is very low, you can't read text from them.

By Naren P

Oct 28, 2022

i have seen many Introduction to Cybersecurity but no one tells this much detials in ther courses.

By Juan M T

Jan 6, 2022

Not really good video/audio quality. The video transcriptions and subtitles are machine-generated.

By Gonzalo D C M

Nov 3, 2020

Brindan la oportunidad de aprender nuevos conceptos y reforzar los que ya se han adquirido. Gracias

By Pratima B

Oct 15, 2020

Pretty good and thorough but couldn't understand what was said in some cases due to bad microphones

By Bhanu P R

Jun 26, 2020

Very helpful in understanding the basics needed for an individual to enter the cybersecurity world.

By Sachin G M

Jun 13, 2020

The best course for understanding the basic and the reason for giving 4 stars is the voice quality.

By Yonatan G

May 11, 2021

It was a very good course, but there were some problems with sound quality in some of the lessons.

By Leland F

Nov 6, 2020

I liked this course. The only thing in my opinion that needs improvement is the audio from videos.

By Ghada A

Sep 14, 2020

everything was amazing however it would be perfect if the videos where in higher quality.

thank you

By daisy r

Jul 23, 2020

it good to learn about it

the persons who are interested in Cyber security they can easily done it

By Iqra A

Apr 25, 2020

Very informative for beginners. A brief overview of all the topics was helpful in getting insights

By Eugene T

Jul 31, 2022

some lectures you need to watch youtube videos as well before you can get the whole concept well

By Chun W M L

Jan 15, 2021

A very good course to understand what is cybersecurity, however, it lacks some practical example.

By Bhushan D B

Aug 8, 2020

Thank You IBM and Coursera for this Opportunity. I learned very easily and this is so informative

By Hari K

Jul 22, 2020

This was an amaziing course. It was very well structured and the presentatioons were really good.

By robert t

Apr 3, 2024

This was great, the only downside about this is that some of the audios were not audible enough.

By Alex L

Aug 9, 2022

Es una buena introduccion al mundo de la ciberseguridad pero me falta algun ejemplo mas practico

By Lalit B

Mar 29, 2021

Excellent Course for Beginners it clears a lot of concepts. Good material included in the videos

By Apurav S

Jun 12, 2020

Great but try to be more practical , like show some functions and work in real time on computer.

By Thomas H

May 18, 2020

Good course overall, would be great for those with Sec+ to get the hours on their cert for CEUs.