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Learner Reviews & Feedback for Introduction to Cybersecurity Tools & Cyber Attacks by IBM

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About the Course

This course gives you the background needed to understand basic Cybersecurity. You will learn the history of Cybersecurity, types and motives of cyber attacks to further your knowledge of current threats to organizations and individuals. Key terminology, basic system concepts and tools will be examined as an introduction to the Cybersecurity field. You will learn about critical thinking and its importance to anyone looking to pursue a career in Cybersecurity. Finally, you will begin to learn about organizations and resources to further research cybersecurity issues in the Modern era. This course is intended for anyone who wants to gain a basic understanding of Cybersecurity or as the first course in a series of courses to acquire the skills to work in the Cybersecurity field as a Jr Cybersecurity Analyst. The completion of this course also makes you eligible to earn the Introduction to Cybersecurity Tools & Cyber Attacks IBM digital badge. More information about the badge can be found https://www.youracclaim.com/org/ibm/badge/introduction-to-cybersecurity-tools-cyber-attacks...

Top reviews

NA

Apr 1, 2024

"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!"

SH

Jul 5, 2023

This course was a great source of information and explanation to the world of cybersecurity, It gave me a strong motivation to go forward with whole course and learn more about this fascinating field.

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By Mojgan

Feb 27, 2022

some courses were extremely difficult to understand as the lecturer accent was very unclear. Some lecturers using words like "forexample" over 3 times in 2 sentences which I found annoying. I found some of the lectures difficult to understand due to the way it was explained by the lecturer which was not at all clear and took me longer to learn. In most of the videos the voice quality was not very good.

By Maziar E

Jun 14, 2020

Although the content of the course is amazing, however the quality of recordings is surprisingly very much below whatever online training material I have seen. Neighbours hammering a nail in the wall, another person talking at the same time in the room, very poor voice quality, typos in the presentations, 10 different types of slides, copy pastes from websites, etc.

I'm like, Are you serious IBM?

By Apostolos S

Nov 22, 2020

Interesting topic and content covered was right. But, the sound quality is really bad in most of the videos and the feeling I got is that the course was prepared fast, with cheap equipment (maybe through phone calls - not even using a proper mouse) and with no intention to update it (old links even from 2016, some not working anymore). Disappointing quality from a company like IBM.

By John B

Aug 10, 2022

Thank you for the course! Comprehensive, but some of the Pentest links are old, as well as some of the training slides. One instructor used the wrong Acronym (HIPPA versus HIPAA) and it was wrong on the quiz as well. some of the audio on the sessions sounded hollow and was difficult to understand, but I got through it okay by rewatching with 'CC' and reviewing transcripts

By Raj S

May 18, 2021

I felt the Content was good but not all of it was actually useful. The videos should be crisp and point to point. Learned many new things and I appreciate IBM for making this wonderful course. But, the audio quality was terrible sometime. The audio is not recorded professionally. And, the instructor's accent was not understandable sometimes. I think this could be improved .

By Roger T

Aug 9, 2020

It was a good intro to cyber security for someone like me with zero knowledge in this field. However, at times it was difficult to understand the instructors who don't have English as their mother tongue. But it was especially difficult to understand Domenico Raguseo discussing the Cyber Kill Chain in Week 2. I just decided to turn off the audio and just read the slides.

By Daisy A

Apr 7, 2021

Some parts of the course were a little difficult to understand because of the organization. The presenters in some of the parts were jumping around or not fully explaining a concept which made it a little difficult to follow. Also if there were texts or websites that can be given before the course to help supplement with the course it would be greatly appreciated.

By Cat D

Sep 7, 2022

Overall, not a bad course. However, it went from being pretty basic with introductory principles and key terms to VERY difficult with lots of jargon. Im wondering if for an intro course, maybe it would be worth explaining some of this further even with entry level industry professionals. Other than that, it was pretty good. A bit long in some weeks but good!

By Hemaraj D

Jun 22, 2020

Your content is very good but the sound quality is very worse not getting anythings. please put with good sound quality. You guys works on IBM and doesn't have good quality microphone? How cheap? The course cannot be best without audio with is everything and and the quality of sound is low that the microphone that you are using is less than a dollar.

By Ana D

Jul 7, 2020

Some of the material is repetitive (f.e. talks about the same exact classification of threaths in weeks 1,2 & 3). I feel there wasn't a good communication between the lecturers, hence the repetition. At some videos audio was really bad. Otherwise, the course gives a good, but brief introduction. Hope the next one in the specialisation is better.

By drake d

Mar 25, 2023

Material was good and understandable, aside from a few professors where their accent was very thick and made it difficult to understand without reading the captions at the bottom. I also saw multiple questions were either poorly worded or the wrong answer was selected by their creator resulting in the wrong answer on the students end.

By Zhussupova A

Feb 14, 2023

Thank you for the work and the opportunity you provided! But unfortunately it was very difficult for me to complete this course, since I have no experience in this field. It seemed to me that the lessons are not really prepared by people in terms of training. Nevertheless, I did learn a lot of new information for myself in this field.

By Nyron L

Oct 3, 2021

I gave this course a 3 stars rating because some of explanations & prouncations wasn't fully clear to follow especially, while watching the diagram layouts, etc, but I did enjoyed learning lots of new things about computer hackers & actors, malwares, cybercrime, cyberwarfare, CIA triads, security programs &, security threats!

By Alirio B R

Oct 18, 2022

the content of the course is good and well explained. The only issue I got it was understanding the teacher not because of their strong accent but more because of the noise on the recordings, most of them sound like they recorded everything with a cheap microphone or on their mouth. Recordings could be clean before upload

By Umeyr M S

Sep 24, 2022

Topics and content of courses are great but technical quality is awful. Recordings sounds like they are from 20 years ago and no one has checked them any near future. They are not old but has awful quality.

Also some non-native speaker teachers hard to understand, some of them having trouble reading a text in front of them

By GUERRA M

Sep 24, 2021

The course structure does not seem to follow a logic flow; all the concepts presented are very useful but often repeated in different lectures; sometime the material and videos seems to be taken from other classes keeping just the relvant part. To summarize: a lot of good concepts and information badly structured,

By Sarah T

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.

By Ifiok A

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.

By Nathan T

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.

By Mahesh N

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.

By Louisa B

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

By Oren K

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.

By Jônatas A

Aug 9, 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.

By Rayisa

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.

By Arias, J

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!