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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....

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MS

Jul 2, 2024

Thrilled to announce that I've completed the Cyber Security course on Coursera! Excited to apply this knowledge to protect and secure digital environments. #CyberSecurity #ContinuousLearning #Coursera

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.

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By Alankrita S

Nov 3, 2021

The content taught are very good,but the audio quality in many lectures is very poor.Please see to the issue and the overall experience of the course is nice.

By Himanshu G

Aug 14, 2021

The content was great but the delivery and the audio of the course could have been better since we cannot sometimes make out what the instructor is speaking.

By Suchitra S

May 28, 2021

The course content was very helpful for me as a beginner but the sound quality was not very good and required very close attention to understand the content.

By Jabrielle D

Dec 5, 2022

The objectives were very thorough and informative. I appreciate the articles and links that were shared that we could look into after finishing the videos.

By Mohit A

Feb 27, 2021

It was a great expirence that I had through this course . I am an ECE engineering student and cybersecurity is out of my domain but still I enjoyed it a lot

By Kristi B

Oct 2, 2022

Enjoyed the course as an introduction to cybersecurity, but had to read the transcripts quite often to fully understand the material. Would recommend it.

By Ignacio A L L

Aug 26, 2021

Necesita un par de correcciones la traducción, el contenido es muy completo para una introducción y entrega una vista global bastante amplia de la carrera

By Salman M

Jun 16, 2020

will recommend for those who want to start there career in cybersecurity

good source of knowledge was provided throughout

audio quality was not good enough

By Sagar .

Jun 1, 2020

Many of the links And the videos Were outdated, apart from that it is a wonderful course for anyone wishing to learn and work in the field of cybersecurity

By Akash M

Jun 21, 2020

Taught easily, contents were good, very good cybersecurity course to begin with , might be more helpful if some of audio quality of videos were more good

By Buvana G

Jun 30, 2020

This course helped me understand security from a corporate point of view, practically, rather than attacking problems theoretically like I do for a PhD.

By Ravi M

Jun 17, 2020

Teaches fundamentals well, however some information is repeated in multiple lessons. Furthermore audio quality is not great. Overall interesting course.

By Ashlei E

Aug 15, 2022

Excellent information, but unuasually loud introductions with very soft class audio. Some speakers are unintelligible and the transcript reflects this.

By Vivek K

Mar 25, 2022

One of the best course inmy life regarding cyber securityfor well mannered and sysmeticly arrange for the student that want to lear about this course.

By gerald m

Feb 8, 2022

It needs a lot of dedication and time to set on the side remember before taking a course you need to have enough knowledge of Hacking and Cryptograph

By andrew_morkel

Mar 31, 2021

The content was top notch and this has been an excellent course, but there are some misspellings on slides and the audio could be improved in places.

By Stephanie D

Oct 18, 2020

Some of the lectures could have been placed in a different order. One or two of the lectures near the end could have been placed a little higher up.

By AGABA I

Feb 17, 2023

Good course. I wish we can get internship opportunities after courses to develop skills we learned in a busy field. I mean, real hands on experience

By H. K K

Mar 11, 2023

Answers to quizzes are sometimes not available in the videos. It would be more understandable if the sound quality in the videos could be improved.

By Pringsal A

May 3, 2022

very helpfull and good lecture i recomend this courses to those who are interested in cyber security as it start from basic and easy to understand.

By Vishal K

Jun 30, 2020

The audio quality for some video lectures are very poor. Also, in some videos, there are inaudible parts in which some important words are covered.

By Rhonda A C

Jun 16, 2021

Very informative, updating my knowledge base to support my IT consulting. Still much more to learn and study. Looking forward to future courses.

By Paras s

Jun 22, 2020

It focuses more on theoretical knowledge..should focus on videos with practical explanations showing how to use tools perhaps...great lectures..

By Hrvoje K

Apr 8, 2021

Some text was hard to understand, and the written text did not always follow the spoken text. The introduction content is up to the expectation.

By Gérard

Jun 25, 2020

Very exciting formation on cybersecurity tools and cyber attacks to level up your career.

I'm very proud to end it and thank to the support team.