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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

AG

Aug 14, 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.

VS

Feb 25, 2023

Being An IT Person I learned alot from this course and hope ill get more from this till now whatever i learned from this i got enough good experience and knowledge of ethical hacking and cybersecurity

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By C C

Apr 27, 2022

Sensational. I enjoyed every minute of it. It was a pleasure to be a part of such an important course.

Thank you so much for having me as a student. Please let me continue on with the nest course.

Consuelo Cabrera

By Ahmed R

Aug 22, 2022

Hii, I am overjoyed to have finished this course. This course was extremely beneficial in clarifying my concepts. Every procedure is more efficient. Thank you to the Coursera team for granting me this certification.

By Nidhi P

Jun 25, 2022

This course is structured perfectly for a beginner to start with. It provides over all knowledge and covers all the basic aspects of cyber security that one needs to possess before diving deeper into cyber security.

By Robert T

Oct 13, 2021

Great intro. course, very thorough and I was able to review the material over and over again with the videos. I feel confident I will do fine as I progress through all the courses and evertually to a higher level.

By Aum A D

Nov 4, 2020

The course was very helpful for a beginner like me and very much informative to clear some of my basic concepts . Although I think there were some topics which needed more explanation from a beginner point of view .

By Sergio H A

Nov 24, 2022

I founded this course very interesting because it´s more formal than others, it´s focused on revelant theoric aspects I didn't imagine. I think that it will be helpful for me to understand all about cybersecurity.

By Obumneme N

Jul 23, 2020

It was an exciting learning experience. The content is very comprehensive and the quizzes were designed to bring out the knowledge in one. Thanks to all the presenters and IBM for organizing this excellent course.

By Ricardo R

Apr 2, 2021

Great training where you can learn various concepts used in the IT Security area. This course, although an introduction, is quite broad in its explanations and the professionals involved in it are highly trained.

By Beckett H

Dec 13, 2020

Was split up into manageable weekly workloads, and I learned a lot of new things. It's especially useful that I know the knowledge is coming straight from the experts. I would definitely recommend this to others.

By Rohan P

Oct 28, 2020

Very informative, interesting and really difficult to pass tests. The competitive tests made me review the course resources again and again, that I became an expert at the various tools and attacks.

Thank you IBM

By Masood K

Apr 27, 2023

This course covered all the basic concepts of Cyber Security. I gained a lot of knowledge from this course and will like to continue learning more about Cyber Security on the same platform. Thank you, Coursera !

By Nomi S J

Sep 2, 2022

Really a Piece of Art... Very good Understanding with Examples.... Just in Most of the Video(s) Audio was a Nightmare... Maybe the recording of any online session. Other than that gained Knowledge.... Excellent

By Ricardo C

Apr 20, 2021

It is a very interesting course that allows to know the basic notions about cyber attacks and it is very exciting the world of ethical hacking and how to help companies to safeguard the assets of the company.

By Kelvin k

Aug 26, 2020

With the skills acquired I can protect my sensitive data, personally identifiable information , intellectual property as well as governmental and industry information systems from theft and damage attempted .

By Salman N

Jan 15, 2022

This is the best and easy to understand for anyone who is looking for the insight of cyber security environment and the applications and procedures being used by the top tech organizations across the world.

By saif j

Aug 21, 2021

Pso much information for a beginner like much. Had to watch other videos and resources to get better understanding. Now i feel quite confident that I can study the next program involved. Thanks you so much.

By jorge C

May 21, 2022

In this course I learned many things where the platform provided me with many tools and educational materials and I am also grateful for providing knowledge to people like me who can apply it in our lives.

By Ahsan M

Feb 22, 2022

For an introduction it is a very comprehensive course and would definetly recommand it for some who would like to brush the basics of cybersecurity or someone who wants to enter the cybersecurity world.!!!

By Vinay K

Mar 7, 2021

a good course have a lot of information to have some basic understanding of how things work in the field of cyber security .I recommend to take this course for people who wants to land in cyber security ..

By Jay L

Sep 27, 2020

Very great learning experience...... It was with financial aid and I really loved this. Thank you coursera for providing such quality education and thank you IBM for sharing great great skilled knowledge.

By Robert G

Nov 8, 2019

Excellent course, content is suitable for anyone interested in Cybersecurity. Provides high-level and detailed content on origin of industry, government, cyber players, methodologies, tools and language.

By Hiroshi

Feb 2, 2022

I like this course, updated and timely! They will also let you access different websites through links to enrich your knowledge. Just one point to improve, recording/audio, but understandable over all.

By Ronabel A

Sep 26, 2022

Learned a lot about the fundamentals of Cybersecurity through this 4 week learning course by IBM.

Im now more aware of what should I consider first before proposing a web based platforms /IT solutions.

By Taher A

Sep 13, 2021

Really informative course for the beginners getting started into Cyber Security. The course is well structed with the relevant topic links from where more knowledge can be consumed regarding the topics

By James M B

Jan 14, 2021

Great general overview into cybersecurity tools and cyber attacks. Great content and guidance. Constructive feedback, noticed many typographical errors through out the course which has to be rectified.