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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

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 Daniel S

Jul 20, 2023

Interesting course, very detailed and absolutely necessary in today's environment. Looking forward to the next part.

By Austin L

Jun 11, 2023

for starting a new path to better my life i will say it opened my eyes to things i was always interested in learning

By William

Nov 17, 2022

Very nice, sounds a bit off in some videos, if I have to say something negative, but that is about that - thanks :-)

By Valeria H

Aug 17, 2022

Amazing course for beginners! Really enjoyes studying. Has a lot of interesting information and additional articles

By BANG N J

Oct 15, 2020

This course has been most effective to introduce me a newbie into th e world of cybersecurity.

Thank Coursera and IBM

By Somendra S

Aug 19, 2020

Every Module elucidate salient feature of Cyber security from scratch with synergy of knowledge of Expert from IBM.

By OtellO A

May 29, 2020

This is my introduction to Cybersecurity and I was impressed by the simple presentation, good examples, and quizzes.

By Charlotte K

Jan 26, 2020

Highly interesting, well put together. I enjoyed it very much and feel like I have increased my knowledge massively.

By Syeda F

Oct 25, 2022

Got to learn a lot about Cybersecurity. The videos are very informative and we also get a lot of reading material.

By Henry T

Oct 6, 2022

Excellent!

Enjoyed the multi-national instructors.

Some were hard to understand but well worth the time to review!

By MAHESH J

Jul 30, 2021

Very solid course. A lot of useful links with additional material to study. Thanks a lot for sharing the knowledge.

By David C

Apr 19, 2021

Very interesting course , provide very useful information and a lot of theory that may be put in practice later on.

By Afran J

Jul 26, 2020

I really like to take the course on your site, thank you very much for the convenience, this is just the beginning)

By Ikhureigbe O R

Sep 20, 2023

Introduction to Cybersecurity Tools & Cyber Attacks Course has really help me to improved in my security measured.

By CARLOS E R

Sep 4, 2022

Although it was only intro do cybersecurity, it had a lot of valuable information. Foundations to any field is key

By Gary D

Mar 4, 2021

Course was very well laid out and easy to follow. Had a hard time sometimes understanding some of the instructors.

By Mohammad H

Jun 19, 2020

As the course title says, this is a good introduction for the cybersecurity topic with some good links, thank you.

By Babatunde S

Dec 15, 2022

The course has been very helpful in terms of starting my Cyber Security journey. i would jive is a 5 star rating.

By Jos� L M A

Nov 7, 2020

Very good course, well structured. I loved,

Excellent audio visual material and reference websites.

Thanks a lot.

By Pratish S

May 21, 2020

Awesome course . I got precised stuff in single place, which will be really helpful in my ongoing Security tasks.

By Calvin B

Dec 2, 2019

I learned a lot of Cyber Security information from this course. Quizzes from this course are not easy to answer.

By Summer K

Aug 31, 2023

Gave a really in-depth introduction to the topic that felt more authentic and useful than other similar courses.

By Mohammed M A M

Jun 16, 2022

الدورة ممتازة وقد وضحت لي مفهوم الأمن السيبرالي وكيف ظهرت وماهي التحديات والحلول المقدمة لتحقيق الأمن الإلكتروني

By Augustine E K

Feb 12, 2022

It improves my skills in cyber attacks, cyber security investigations, and wedges me a space in my organization

By Gbenga O

Dec 29, 2020

This has opened my intelligent quotient to another field of IT on how to be alert for cyber attacks and hackers.