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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 contr...
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    Apr 2, 2024

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    "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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    Dec 25, 2020

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    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 Sarah T

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    Sep 15, 2020

    There were some great visuals and obvious tons of expert teaching. However, some of the audio was difficult to understand, I often felt like the instructor was reading off of a slide rather than elaborating and providing context or simple examples, and the general flow of the course didn't really make sense to me.

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    By Ifiok A

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    Sep 15, 2023

    I enjoyed the course, and I learned a lot of new things about cybersecurity. However, I expected a more practical approach than a theoretical one. I believe there will be more practicals in the coming courses. Nevertheless, I would have still loved to have some practical and technical examples of what I learned.

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    By Nathan T

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    Sep 8, 2022

    The material is good, however the quality of the presentations vary wildly. Some of the presenters sound like their microphones are in a bath tub in the other room, while others sound like they were recorded with a microphone next to a conference room speaker. This made it very difficult to understand at times.

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    By Mahesh N

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    Aug 17, 2022

    The audio in most of the videos towards the second half are of very low quality and seems like the instructor is talking while sky diving. When you pay an amount for a course , you expect certain standards which was not here. But you get good idea about the terminologies used in the Cyber Security environment.

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    By Louisa B

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    Nov 17, 2021

    most of the videos were recorded poorly, made it so hard to understand at a point. using non english speaking lecturers is a downside to taking this course, and it states its a begginer level but some things are mentioned and expected to be automatically understood at the begginer level. quite dissapointing

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    By Oren K

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    Nov 21, 2020

    This is supposed a course for beginners, with no background at all. The lecturers use many technical terms that are unknown for students without any prior knowledge. So I obviously googled them (TCP,UDP, etc.) and studied them, but I would prefer that everything that matters will be explained in the course.

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    By Jônatas A

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    Aug 10, 2020

    Some material links are dead, subtitles are software generated and need amendments, many videos have the slides/audio out of sync, some quizzes have poor questions. The course does, however, provide very useful external resources to develop the necessary skills in cybersecurity. It's an ok INTRO course.

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    By Rayisa

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    Mar 20, 2021

    This course is a good start for beginners. But I wont say, it was the best as personally I felt there is alot more to cover for beginners. This was more like a introductory course and very theoretical and no hands on practices were given. Audio quality must improve too. But It was good learning.

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    By Arias, J

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    Aug 18, 2020

    Great information, the subtitles are a little off and the audio is somewhat hard to hear. I had to re-watch some of the videos in order to fully understand what was being said.

    But other than that, it was really good information. A good foundation into CyberSecurity. I cannot wait to learn more!

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    By Ric V

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    Apr 24, 2022

    The course content is quite good although is outdated, the text, the audio and the videos are all from 2018, sometimes you cant even read entire texts or charts since they are completely blurred out. Really liked the info provided but I was really dissapointed in the materials that were used.

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    By Mohaimenul I

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    Aug 1, 2023

    An awesome course and I learned a lot of things about the field of the cyber world. But the main drawback of this course is its audio and slide quality. The quality of audio is so bad that keeping concentration becomes a hard nut to crack and I needed to keep my subtitle on 100% of the time.

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    By Reef M A

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    Mar 15, 2022

    Okay.. It's good and have a lot of amusing information .. but it's boring because all content is theoretical and nothing is practical, the voice and translate are not clear and training bag is not available .

    I hope to develop the course more and then it will be INTERESTING !!

    Thanks <3

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    By Amairani C

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    Jun 8, 2022

    Some of the questions they ask on the big tests are not on the material they give you to study. I reread every single module to try and find some of the answers and i was unsuccessful. This is not a beginner course, i would recomment having some background knowledge prior to starting

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    By Fernando C S C d S

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    Jun 29, 2023

    Muito bom fazer para ter uma base boa, mas é muita teoria e quase nada de pratica. Realmente é bastante texto e artigos, mas é muito bom para ter uma base firme! A parte de Tools não tem é só um slide que fala o nome, somente, de algumas ferramentas gratuitas boas, mas nada de mais!

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    By ANUSHREE J

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    Jul 19, 2020

    THE COMPLETE COURSE WAS VERY BENEFICIAL AND HELPFUL FOR PROVIDING INFORMATION ABOUT CYBER SECURITY , BUT THERE SHOULD BE SOME PRACTICAL LEARNING AND TO GIVE PRACTICAL DEMONSTRATION ALSO . IT WAS A GREAT EXPERIENCE .

    BUT I DIDN'T RECEIVED MY IBM BADGE YET . THAT IS DISSAPOINTING .

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    By basil a

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    Sep 17, 2022

    Material is ok but presentation and sound is horrible

    Alot of times the presenters are literally only reading as if they are reciting a poem

    A lot of tables in the presentations are not clear and if you try to make larger it becomes blury in addition sound quality is bad

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    By Adam F

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    Jun 13, 2021

    It was alright. I learned a fair amount, but being lectured to by unengaging instructors reading off a powerpoint, some of whom don't speak english very well, can make getting through this class feel more like a chore. Regardless, it still contained good information.

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    By Bradley G

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    Apr 6, 2022

    It gives a broad introduction, but the videos are so outdated! The audio quality is terrible and some of the instructors with accents are extrememly difficult to understand. Appreciate it is a cheap course, but the videos really need updating with clear audio.

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    By Mark N

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    Jul 9, 2020

    Giving 3 stars because audio quality is poor. Some of the questions in the quiz are not even mentioned in the videos, some of the choices/questions have spelling errors.

    Regardless, it provides an very decent introduction to Cybersecurity Tools and Cyber Attacks

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    By Adam H

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    Aug 22, 2022

    Overall, pretty good. Some of the video and audio doesn't match up. Some of the answers to the test questions isn't found in the reading. Much of the information is from 2016-2018... pretty old and outdated. I am hoping the next courses are more current.

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    By imran m

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    May 21, 2022

    The course quality is not good. The slides are blurred and are not engaging. Moreover, in many places the audio is inaudible. Other than that, many different instructors are teaching this course so you would not found a smooth flow that you were looking for.

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    By Vrushabh B

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    Feb 18, 2023

    Course content is excellent, to the point. All the examples, reading materials are good. The reason for me giving 3 stars is the audio quality in videos is not good. To much disturbance, voice not clear. So, please improve the audio quality of the videos.

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    By Ghassene B S

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    Jan 14, 2023

    Course filled with useful and good information,

    But the course is so formal and there's lack of animation, we just see just static slides and that made lectures is a little boring.

    In general the course was quite benefit for me, thank you for your hardwork.

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    By FILIPPO F

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    Aug 10, 2020

    The course has a poor quality of audio and slides. Most of the videos are pre-recorded from internal training and they ofter refer to topics not covered in the course. The topics were interesting though but often too basic or not well connected together.

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    By Shannon R

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    Sep 7, 2021

    This course is full of audio issues. One woman I could not even focus on what she was saying because someone in a nearby office to hers was banging on a door so loudly. It made me feel as if this course was just kind of thrown together and rushed.

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