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About the Course

With this beginner friendly course, learn fundamental Cybersecurity skills that are crucial for anyone using computing devices and connecting to the Internet. You will first learn to recognize common security threats and risks that individuals and organizations may face, such as theft, tampering, and destruction of sensitive information. You’ll then discover the characteristics of cyber-attacks and learn how you can employ best practices to guard against them. Next, you’ll learn about the best practices against cyberattacks. These include using strong passwords, good password management, and multi-factor authentication. You’ll learn ways in which you can strengthen your security plan with techniques like device hardening, encryption and more. You’ll then learn about safe browsing practices. You’ll gain an understanding of why you must practice safe browsing; to protect yourself against hackers, phishing, identity theft, security leaks, privacy issues and more. You’ll also explore methods for securing and managing confidential information. Then, discover how to configure browsers to help reduce security breaches. Throughout this course you will complete many hands-on labs which will enhance your understanding of course material. At the end of this course, you will have the opportunity to complete a final project where you will demonstrate your proficiency in cybersecurity. Designed specifically for beginners and those who are interested in a Cybersecurity Specialist or Analyst roles as well as entry-level roles in Information Security (Infosec) engineering. This course dives into the world of cybersecurity to give you the critical skills employers need. It also supports the needs of technical and IT support roles, who can find themselves on the front lines of defense for cybersecurity issues....

Top reviews

GA

Dec 20, 2022

Kudos to the Team for such an Amazing class.i am eternally grateful and proud of myself for this noble privilege.. Thank you for the opportunity to learn and God bless you all. -George

RT

Nov 3, 2022

I am very happy with the contents and also learned a lot in the field of cyber security. I will recommend this course to everyone who wants to start with cyber security.

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By Stephen v M

Jan 8, 2025

Overly redundant, as tho they have compiled a curriculum from various sources and didn't bother to edit it. Extremely basic information, with no technical education on offer

By Eslam H

Oct 24, 2022

how ever the information is enriching , the course is sro robotic

By Ian L P

Feb 26, 2025

At the time when I am enrolled, there are too many obvious indicators of AI generated material. There are excessive inaccuracies, repetitions, and errors in spelling and grammar. One example of many, in the module 4 glossary, "Hypertext Transfer Protocol Script protocol (HTTP protocol)" and "Hypertext Transfer Protocol Script Secure protocol (HTTPS protocol)" are defined which have obvious mistakes in the expansion of the acronyms. HTTP is an acronym for "Hypertext Transfer Protocol", and and HTTPS represents"Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure". Even "HTTP protocol" and "HTTPS protocol" use the "protocol" word redundantly, and calling them "Hypertext Transfer Protocol Script protocol" and "Hypertext Transfer Protocol Script Secure protocol" is even less accurate. The author / AI system seems to fail differentiating "JavaScript" from "Java", and JavaScript is often mislabeled as Java which can mislead students about the target functionality of both programming languages. Even the quizzes seem AI influenced, where some multiple choice questions offer several answers that can be considered "correct", and it is up to the student to guess which page or aspect the (probably AI) system was evaluating at the time the question was auto-generated. The answer expected on several questions is debatable, and there are many cases where I could easily demonstrate why a "wrong" answer is more correct than the answer expected as "correct" by the evaluation. Whether the material is AI generated or not, it seriously needs some evaluation and editing. To the creator(s) of these lessons, if you're going to make AI generated lessons, at least review them first. If the lessons are not AI generated, they need extensive proofreading and correction from people actually familiar with the subject.

By Philip R K

Feb 10, 2025

Awful the course is taught by AI lady bot voices with concepts crammed in as fast as possible without exploring anything. no module glossary just a huge end of course one. The labs functioned beyond poorly especially for such simple tasks at least the Google ones usually worked. the honors assignment is a joke making you send screen captures to be graded by an ai and making you grade other assignments. They could have made much better worthwhile labs and especially for the supposed honor cert which in this program why bother. IBM failed to make the Honor role two lousy awful classes in a row so far.

By Лавренов И Б

Feb 15, 2025

The course cannot be completed due to the incorrect grading system "Final Project Submission: Implementation of Cryptographic Techniques for DataSafe Bank". I flagged the issue and wrote a message in the forums for module 4, but so far there is no response. I wasted several days trying to defeat a non-working system, it is very sad ((((

By YADLAPALLI A V

Apr 8, 2024

i have enrolled n to it already on behalf of my collegge will you please re check my access to this website i need to compete my course

By greezy c

Nov 25, 2024

pretty cool