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Learner Reviews & Feedback for IT Security: Defense against the digital dark arts by Google

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About the Course

This course covers a wide variety of IT security concepts, tools, and best practices. It introduces threats and attacks and the many ways they can show up. We’ll give you some background of encryption algorithms and how they’re used to safeguard data. Then, we’ll dive into the three As of information security: authentication, authorization, and accounting. We’ll also cover network security solutions, ranging from firewalls to Wifi encryption options. The course is rounded out by putting all these elements together into a multi-layered, in-depth security architecture, followed by recommendations on how to integrate a culture of security into your organization or team. At the end of this course, you’ll understand: ● how various encryption algorithms and techniques work as well as their benefits and limitations. ● various authentication systems and types. ● the difference between authentication and authorization. ● how to evaluate potential risks and recommend ways to reduce risk. ● best practices for securing a network. ● how to help others to grasp security concepts and protect themselves. ● new AI skills from Google experts to help complete IT tasks....

Top reviews

PK

Apr 9, 2022

Great course for beginners and experts. Easy to understand and a good refresher for those who have been into IT for a long date. Recommend it to everyone looking for a high quality course on coursera.

SM

Feb 28, 2024

I loved the whole experience beginning to end. I came in already having a BA from state university. Well organized, well produced, and combined with note-taking this course is a no-brainer. Go for it!

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By Ravi C

Apr 30, 2023

Highly complex course

By Donald C

Nov 7, 2020

it was a hard course

By Jeremiah Z

Oct 11, 2019

It was interesting

By Josh K

Jul 15, 2020

Needs some work.

By Muhammad H b A G

Dec 29, 2020

lack animation

By Hrefna A

Nov 10, 2019

Good overview

By vinod k

Jun 20, 2022

i very happy

By David V

Aug 21, 2023

Too rushed.

By Chaiyan S

Mar 28, 2021

Good Course

By Sunil K

Oct 2, 2023

thank you

By Tom R

Sep 21, 2020

it wasok

By Rani N

Apr 18, 2022

Neutral

By Manuel d C J

Jun 4, 2021

perfect

By Adham S

Apr 26, 2024

dffhh

By Pedro G

Feb 9, 2024

mid

By Diyorbek B

Nov 11, 2023

zor

By Sakshi K K

Oct 13, 2022

ok

By TENGKU M A

May 9, 2023

si

By Steven

Jan 29, 2022

I don't feel like this was adequate at all really. It was a ton of jargon blasted off at a thousand words per minute. I watched all the videos several times, and the questions and quizzes seemed very disconnected and obscure in relation the actual course material. Half the time things that were right answers were wrong, questions worded poorly, and a lot of vague stuff.

I'm a huge note taker, and I didn't even know what to take notes on or what is supposed to be important information. Half the stuff was never touched on again, and the other half of stuff was touched on all too briefly.

Do I have more knowledge than I did before taking this course? Yes, a bit. However I feel most of what was "taught" (or being spoken at you) in this "course" was very fleeting and ephemeral information.

By Nick R

Feb 1, 2021

I learned a lot, like I have some ideas at what the issues were during course 4 when the tests kept timing out and pumping out "You got this wrong".. when it was right..

It was the backup to that. It wasn't there. I spent some time constantly failing when it wasn't my fault. That hit my spirit HARD.. It took me longer to take this course because I was scared to move forward and hit that road block again. No one responded back to what could have been done, what was done, or will be done.. nothing was ever done or communicated,

So I continued and finished, by my estimations two months behind... and I did pay for that.

By Brendon L

Oct 31, 2023

Not too fond of this course. It was like the instructor was just talking to himself, I felt like I may as well go read a textbook. The instructor seemed really knowledgeable, but delivery and pace was bad. The Networking course had a lot of information too, but at least they had images which he explained from. In this course there was very few images and when there was, he didn't even explain, just kept talking on. Not to mention lacking a lot of practical learning. I don't feel like I learned much from this course. And I went over videos 3-5 times.

By Jeffrey C

Mar 9, 2022

A lot of terminology, but not a lot of understanding. After the first week or two, felt like they were throwing defintion after defintion at me with little breakdown of the fundamentals. Crammed a lot of information into each short video, but didn't do a good job of actually educating. I completed the course, but do not feel anything close to an expert. Basically a cursory overview of the topic. Little acutal hands on experience.

By Hesham B

Nov 17, 2022

Instructor was very good the first week of the course. Later on, it seemed to me he was only reading the material, without interest in really explaining the material. I have had to watch many third party videos to understand the same material he was reading out loud.

By Randall

Dec 17, 2021

Far better to take Ed Amoroso's courses over at NYU. This is an outdated, rapid-read course that seemed to have little thought other than rattling through a pile of concepts. Little actual teaching.

By Melody P

Aug 12, 2024

A lot of "Hey, this is what this is called" but very little substance. I feel like I barely learned a bunch of terms but was not challenged to put them to any use until the very last assignment.