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    Learner Reviews & Feedback for IT Security: Defense against the digital dark arts by Google

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    About the Course

    This course covers a wide variety of IT security concepts, tools, and best practices. It introduces threats and attacks and the many ways they
    can show up. We’ll give you some background of encryption algorithms and how they’re used to safeguard data. Then, we’ll dive into the three
    As of information security: authentication, authorization, and accounting. We’ll also cover network security solutions, ranging from firewalls to
    Wifi encryption options. The course is rounded out by putting all these elements together into a multi-layered, in-depth security architecture,
    followed by recommendations on how to integrate a culture of security into your organization or team. At the end of this cou...
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    Aug 13, 2023

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    Course was very knowledgeable and worth taking. I feel like the training wouldn't be complete if I didn't know about security and how important it is not just for me but for everyone using technology!

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    Apr 25, 2018

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    Great course that is full of useful information and presented in an easy to understand way. It's an awesome beginner course that will add to your knowledge and further your knowledge of IT security.

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    Oct 31, 2022

    I have learnt many security concepts and terms in this course, and I have found it very informative.

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    May 13, 2022

    I LOVE THIS COURSE. I NOW KNOW HOW TO HANDLE SPYWARE, MALWARE, AND RANSOMWARE.

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    Sep 6, 2020

    I have acquired a vast amount of knowledge on security and the different attacks that compromise data

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    Jun 21, 2020

    This is a professional course, i learned a lot of things about IT security and gained more experience

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    May 14, 2020

    This was the most interesting and best laid out course with the best intructor of the specialization.

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    Jul 15, 2019

    This is a great experience and remarkable teaching. I was able to refine my skills and beyond. Thanks

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    Nov 26, 2024

    Google sure knows how to teach. It was very comprehensive catering to various learning techniques.

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    May 31, 2024

    It was a very educational and hands on. I've gain knowledge, Skills and experience from this course.

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    Sep 7, 2021

    Great lesson and progression in the course to touch on all the pertinent topics needed for basic IT.

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    Jul 23, 2021

    this course really helped me understand computers so much more than I did before, thank you so much

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    Mar 14, 2021

    its really fun and exhausted experience but there's a lot of things i could learned from this course

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    Jan 26, 2021

    A very intuitive and quite-in-detail IT security course for beginners. This is 1-Course-handles-All!

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    Jan 1, 2021

    Great course for the beginners. Instructor did a great job of presenting the information. Thank you!

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    Jul 11, 2020

    A healthy and secure workplace brings a better family and a ventilated communities around the world.

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    Jul 2, 2020

    Very informative! Provides all the fundamentals and more! This course is setting you up for success!

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    Aug 31, 2023

    If you study for CompTIA and this course, it'll give you an amazing foundation for IT related work.

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    Aug 7, 2023

    This is a great course, I was happy to find some cybersecurity courses in it too. Way to go google!

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    Mar 25, 2023

    This course has been incredibly enriching, and I am grateful for all that I have learned. Thank you

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    May 24, 2022

    There was so much more information than I thought there would be in this course. I learned so much!

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    Apr 1, 2022

    It is comprehensive. The videos do have a lot of content, be sure to take some breaks to absorb it.

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    Aug 16, 2021

    Very interesting and complete course, but the lack of visual aids really hurt some of these videos.

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    Aug 14, 2021

    This was an excellent training. The method of teaching of the tutor was really great and fantastic.

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    Jan 5, 2021

    This course is hard and many but be strong and work hard because you will achieve what yoou deserve

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    Nov 29, 2020

    This is very usefull and now this is very interesting for the use of security growing in the world.

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    Nov 5, 2020

    thanks for evrrything Google , let me hope that i will find job , related to my career! ITsupporter

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