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    Learner Reviews & Feedback for Introduction to Cybersecurity Tools & Cyberattacks by IBM

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    16,195 ratings

    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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    JJ

    Jun 18, 2021

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    I Thanks Coursera ,IBM and its team to provide us such a grade knowledge to help the world for protecting, analyzing ,recovering from the cyber attacks and otheronce again thanks Coursera and IBM Team

    AG

    Aug 14, 2020

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    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 Ali A

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    Sep 18, 2020

    The materials were really good (short, precise, and informative), however, the voice quality recorded was really poor and most of times is not clear to convey the message easily. The other thing, I believe that the materials was having some lack of organized scripts which show some issues if I decide only to read the scripts.

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    By Jonathan D

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    May 1, 2021

    Easily completable and understandable. My only complaints would be that there are a fair amount of spelling/grammatical mistakes made by the presenters throughout the course, some of which makes it difficult to understand what they are saying. That being said, most of the information is presented in a clear and concise way.

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    By Wellington d S

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    May 12, 2022

    The course is good and helps you to have a basic overview about cybersecurity and what it means. It's helpfull but I hope they can bring some some interaction and more solid exercises in order to help the student to really learn the content. It was quite hard to understand all the content without more solid examples.

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    By Supriya S

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    Aug 8, 2022

    some of the video quality is very poor. Enrolment in the certification program assumes that participants will complete week one of all 8 courses in the first week and even after paying for the course, does not give option to change the due date (contrary to what is advertised). App and website is not user friendly.

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    By ANNIE L

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    Jul 8, 2020

    Content coverage is great and at just the right level of detail. Love that it is taught by IBM - top notch expertise. However, the audio quality can be very bad, which wasn't helped by the text translations either (also bad and obviously without technical knowledge). Overall, great course for the price and format.

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    By Toni C

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    Jun 27, 2022

    I found it difficult, at times, to efficiently cross-reference questions and choice of answer (in assessments) to learning materials or external learning resources due to variations in terminology used, and in some weeks we were responding to questions based on content not yet covered (was covered in a later week).

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    By Grace

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    May 10, 2022

    Good introduction into the entire field of cybersecurity. One suggestion would be to explain or flush out abbreviations (i.e., TCP, UDP, ICMP, etc etc). Inputting unexplained or unelaborated alphabet soup for an introduction course is potentially problematic for those who are entirely new to the subject and field.

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    By Kathryn L S

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    Mar 11, 2021

    Great overview of the field of cybersecurity as a whole, good references and information. Audio could be better in a lot of places. Sometimes difficult to understand some of the presenters. Transcriptions also need to be checked better, as some of the terms are incorrect, based on what the presenter was saying.

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    By Abraham G

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    Feb 5, 2021

    The course was interesting and informative, though I am not sure an absolute beginner would fully grasp some parts because technical terms and acronyms were thrown in here and there and I am not sure they were fully explained. The audio was not very good in some videos and some of the transcripts need some work.

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    By Jacob B

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    Jan 23, 2024

    Content was decent and provided some good examples. Microphone quality on some of the readers was poor. The still images of powerpoint slides for the majority of the lectures was unengaging and sometimes hard to follow when the instructor was trying to illustrate certain flows and relationships of key points.

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    By Della P

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    Aug 3, 2020

    Content is excellent but delivery is terrible. Audio for lectures is choppy and substandard. Some lecturers ramble and deviate from outline of discussion, making the module unnecessarily lengthy. Some lecturers are difficult to understand. Transcript of lectures is inaccurate and cannot be relied upon either.

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    By courteney w

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    Dec 28, 2020

    I would have provided a full 5 stars, but the only thing that truly took away from the courses quality was the sound quality of some of the instructors. It was hard to hear or understand at times. However, the course and instructors still provided a quality course! I am actually happy I took this course.

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    By Sacha Z

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    May 19, 2020

    While providing a comprehensive overview of the topics, the course materials lack quality, i.e. recordings are sometimes hard to understand. The transcripts contain also many mistakes or misspellings. I have seen way nicer courses on Coursera but in the end this course is a good teaser to dig in deeper.

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    By Luke R

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    Jun 21, 2020

    I think it is a very good introduction course and it was great to hear from different people. 5/5 for content; however, 4/5 for the platform. Sometimes it was difficult to hear what the instructors were saying, or the image quality was lacking. Other than that, I am very satisfied with this course.

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    By atul b

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    Jun 26, 2020

    This course provides quite abundant basic knowledge about cyber-security. They have provided enough material and articles for the help of students for further reading and to understand briefly. I want to suggest that some hands-on project should be included in the course for practical knowledge.

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    By Martín R

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    Oct 22, 2021

    This course is a very good introduction to Cybersecurity, it gives you a lot of information on how technology comunication works, how to understand cybersecurity, procedures to work with security, a lot of resources where you can stay updated in cybersecuity and many important concepts.

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    By Scott F

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    Sep 7, 2022

    Good course with great info, but having slides with misspellings makes you wonder how valid the info is. It is also 2022 almost 2023 and the slides and videos are from 2018 or before. How much has cybersecurity changed in that time. So I guess maybe update and proofreads are needed

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    By Aaron V

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    Aug 5, 2020

    I incredibly suggest clear audio and professional verbal communications, I kept having the need to re-watch the videos because of people stuttering or not speaking English in a correct way. Other than that I liked the shortness of the course and John who was clear with specifications

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    By Mary A J

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    Aug 18, 2021

    Learned a lot, but unable to negotiate Coursera easily. Difficult for me to understand some IBM SMEs and challenged to pull everything together for the first of the eight modules (hoping next module will be less challenging)! Thank you to all that made this course available online.

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    By Roman D

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    Aug 9, 2020

    Presented information is very interesting for beginners. I'm filling that some parts should be updated a little using modern reports and trends. Also, I was sad that can't complete some quizzes by some technical issues. Kindly wait for the update and wish you good luck at all.

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    By Robert R

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    Feb 16, 2020

    The information from this course is fantastic. The instructors have so much knowledge but at times their message was a bit obscured and hard to understand. That, is not a problem since I use the note feature a lot. The problem is the note feature gets it wrong at times.

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    By Alvin V

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    Jan 9, 2022

    Good intro for a guy like me that knows very little about cybersecurity. Probably the most useful part to me was all the resources that the instructors direct students to look over. I'll be regularly scouring those websites for updates on the latest in cybersecurity.

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    By Harshvardhan W

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    Jul 5, 2020

    This is a great course to give you an overview of the different processes and procedures in cyber-security. It doesn't go into the details of how something is done, by outlines the general roadmap and what factors should be taken into account while building one.

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    By S M

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    Jan 2, 2024

    Introduction to Cybersecurity Tools & Cyber Attacks is the first step to understand what cybersecurity is all about. this course explains me lot of things about internal process of cybersecurity responsibilities and work environment. Recommended for beginners.

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    By Fabio B S R M

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    Oct 18, 2021

    Very Good Intro to Cyber Sec, cover well the basics. There are some very skilled professionals from IBM passing by their Knowledge , which is quite good and up-to-date. Just not gave 5 stars as some audio are not good quality but nothing you can't understand.

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