Good lectures and overview but the supporting text book was way too complicated and unhelpful, and the discussion group/TA support was non-existent. I will recommend the content of this course to others with those caveats.

thought this was more of a practical class - but was completely theoretical. also that there was more reading than what professor taught - (professor gave definitions/intro about topic and expected to learn all material).

Beginners have no idea about stack-based buffer overflow attack , please keep that in mind when you mention beginners, it's 0 knowledge about programming, otherwise i enjoyed this course a lot !

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Have some nice concepts for cyber security, but it is not really for beginners or someone new to the IT field. the final project just felt kinda random, you may have to guess the answer.

This course gives basic terms of security risks in very clear way. Although tests aren't practical. They have some contraversial points. This fact sometimes pushes to bruteforce answer.

I work in IT and have for 15 plus years but info was helpful but the way it was laid out on the last test was very hard to follow and I taken a cone of Test from other places

The teacher never answer any comment, observation or question in the forums. Some questions in quizzes was ambiguous, for example question 9 in quizz of week 3.

it was a little to detailed and advance for beginners, bbut there was good information.

activities should be more interactive,shorter, and hands on.

This course gives a basic introduction do cyber threats, but it is not been updated in a while. Some of the videos linked don't even work anymore.

I gained a little skills and knowledge but I did nothing practically and there are some books I didn't read due to lack of money to purchase them

Instructor was not too good he not able to describe things clearly. He relate every case with example but not understandable to me

The introductory readings were so confusing for a first time student without a background in programming to fully understand.

Several dead links with students in the discussion board needing to provide alternatives

The course was interesting but needs updating annually and the quizzes were not good

good course, however, didnt include as much practicality as i had thought it would.

The course was educating, but kind of abstract in experimenting in my job role

It's a very basic course and it needs to be refined for security analysts

Quizzes do seem a bit harder and more abstract than the study material

Good as a beginner course but not enough practical information.

Videos should reflect current year of 2024 not 2010 - 2014

The subtitle doesn't match the video well.

not practical

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The course started out well, but it soon became apparent that the course needed to be updated and its development lacked care. For instance, according to the rules, all the quizzes had a pass rate of 80%, but the final quiz had to be passed at 88.8%. To add insult to injury, I don't think the answers were right, and not only that, the instructions said the quiz would not be graded.

So this is a mess, a reason to quit Coursera Plus.

Way too hard for an entry level course, too much termininology and assumed knowledge. Quizes were way too hard and contained topics and theories that weren't even discussed. Videos were good and explained topics well enough but felt like they were a little too vague and missing vital details. Readings were too long, couldn't read them because they were too technical again.