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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

RV

Dec 25, 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.

AG

Aug 15, 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.

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By Kory H

Dec 2, 2020

Instructor isn't speaking clear enough.

By Sihaya S

Feb 27, 2023

this is a very beginner course

By Aaron D

May 25, 2021

poor quality videos and audio

By HIMANSHU S

Jul 20, 2020

Any app available for hacking

By m s

Dec 16, 2022

Bad quality of voice-records

By CC P

May 1, 2020

Audio quality was very poor

By Le A D

Aug 14, 2021

Audio quality is so bad.

By Anirudha A M

Mar 25, 2024

Very poor audio quality.

By Ben C

Mar 21, 2021

Audio quality is awful

By Fadi A S

May 19, 2022

audio quality is bad

By Tuan A H

Mar 25, 2023

Poor sound quality.

By Tommy T

Nov 28, 2022

The audio was bad.

By Samur M

Nov 9, 2022

poor audio quality

By Mark W

Oct 5, 2020

poor audio quality

By Sun H

Jun 23, 2020

Low-quality videos

By Awab S A A

Mar 24, 2022

bad sound qualty

By WISDOM O

Jan 23, 2023

GOOD

By STEFAN C

Oct 7, 2022

By Lisa M

Jun 7, 2022

No. Just no. Terrible course quality. Sound is inaudible. Not a good option for a complete beginner. I finished it, however not worth your hard-earned money. You will get better help from a Youtube tutorial. If you're only doing it because you need some form of proof that you understand some cybersecurity concepts then this course is fine as you will earn certificates. You will also walk away with no real-world required knowledge of the cybersec industry today(2022). Course consists of a lot of self-read assignments where most topics and concepts can be overwhelming for someone who just stepped into the cybersec industry. Some slides are copied from other resources and not original. Some slides are also very hard to understand as the words are all over the place. Slides are eddited poorly and you have to make sense of it all on your own. For some this might not be a problem but for some students this can be very frustrating because understanding this topic is crucial. Best of luck to you if you decide to proceed in this course. Just breathe and remain patient till the end.

By Philip R K

Feb 18, 2025

the program is so awful i don't know where to begin, how about 95 percent of the videos is just filled with ai lessons that put up incomplete bullet points with typos and incomplete thoughts on concepts. it's awful videos just repeating the same basic content sometimes 6 videos in a row it's even hard to tell what's important by the way the slides are lazily displayed with little to no information. I definitely will never take another IBM course or programs if it's near this low level of quality. a book is a better alternative than this course. The course is taught by AI and graded by AI both very poorly. I can't even take this program serious after this last course and final assignment that your ai could not grade accurately I will rush through this so I can actually take courses where I can learn not just be frustrated by lack of quality move into specialized programs. and no not IBM if this is how their programs are done.

By M S I R

Jun 21, 2020

Very poor arrangement of this course. As the name of this course, like, "professional", but course arrangement like, poor videos, poor visuals at presentation, very very very poor verbal communication skill, very very very poor and poor sound quality like totally unclear vocals and talking styles. Very disappointing course this. But yeah, the information of this course is very useful. The matter is, It was very hard to get those information cause poor quality of course and course arrangement. I would like to give an example to see, "how should a professional course looks like!". yeah, see google, see their professional course's videos. I have completed almost 3 courses from Coursera and this is the worse experience. Very disappointed. What I want to say that, re-arrange this course and upgrade the quality thus anyone can easily get this. I mean at least clear vocal and talking style.

By Kathryn B

Sep 14, 2023

This course is incredibly outdated with very confusing information being given in all the videos. I'm only on week one but every video has improper grammar and the information being taught is very confusing. The audio matches the subtitle summary under the videos so its not that.

This is a Cybersecurity course, which a very fast paced, fast changing field, that is using information and stats from 2018.

I do not understand how you can charge $40 a month for confusing and outdated information. I have submitted multiple reports showing how confusing the information is and I hope they are seen.

I dont plan to continue the course because I don't have confidence that I am being taught information that will be up to date, accurate or even relevant to the field today.

By Sarah U

Dec 8, 2019

Technically, the content of the class is good, but the audio presentation is very hard to follow since the speakers talk very fast, very speer-of-the moment and with very strong accents.

Also, what had me frustrated that in the four major final quizes at the end of each week, I was only able to review my mistakes or lacks in one week. For all the other weeks everytime I clicked the button to review the quiz's mistakes it just led me to a blank page, which was not very helpfull. Under the same circumstances it happened that it didn't matter how I changed my answers for the questions I was unsure about, I remaind with the same grade, therefore I failed two assignments left to not knowing why.

By David A V E

May 12, 2020

As someone who majored in Computer Science, and has a little bit of Cyber security experience, this course was very basic, I do not recommend you take this course if you have a similar background.

Now, when it comes to content quality, I have seen much much better. This is the same for the organization and presentation of the course's contents. I was extremely disappointed with the quality I was presented, given that it's IBM who's making this course. I found myself STRUGGLING to finish this course and get on with better ones.

My advice: There are better courses out there, and you should take this course only if you have no (or extremely limited) knowledge of the basics of cyber security.

By Christopher S

Nov 26, 2021

This is really not very good. You get to listen to non-native English speakers drone on for about 5 times as long as it takes to read the transcript for the video. There are some basic Power Point slides that you could look at, but this information is so general and long-winded that you're going to be a lot more efficient and a lot more informed using other resources. I made it through the first 45 minutes or so by reading the transcripts and feel that I learned very little. Maybe the rest of the course is better, and you're welcome to find out for yourself. I can't understand why professionals can't do a better job of presenting information than is found in newspaper articles.