Some of the teachers could be better, as have more visually associated learning material rather than just expecting the user to listen to them talk. I mean by making a video of situation and shower the user how it's done in real life instead of just showing a chart. A fake situation could have been created to demonstrate this. Not everybody remembers what people say very well. Sometimes transcripts or subtitles didn't help because of the accents of speakers and the translation was wrong or marked inaudible where you actually needed the help udnerstanding it.

However, it is not a bad short course, but the time limitation actually kind of makes it such a crunch time it can get on the nerves struggling to learn the contents for the quiz. There was actually a lot of good information presented and helpful links, some of the reading materials were kind of long so it was hard to get through the entire thing but is great for understanding basic concepts. It is also a good thing for people who want experience to help them get a job.

New to the "Certificate" world better known as MOOC Certificates. Yall be sure to go read about MOOC's before you advance in any sort of learning program like this. Just remember its a non-credit course, and I foudn this from Coursea Support:

"The “non-credit” course will not give you any academic credit towards your college/university. Nothing is mentioned about any certificate approval or non-approval from the actual course creators, neither from Coursera."

This sections wasn't too bad, had a few ending quizzes that got me but understood why after re-reading the questions. I would say the worst part of this course is there are tons of transcript issues that you will see, misspelled words in quizzes and MAINLY how hard it is to understand some of these people with heavy heavy accents and horrible microphones! I would say this course needs a lot of updating in all aspects of the lesson to make a better understanding of the Introduciton to Cybersecurity Tools & Cyber Attacks.

There is a lot of useful information here and ultimately it serves its purpose well. However, the quality of the teaching materials is uneven. Some slides are much too dense (I marked a couple of those videos in individual feedback), and much of the course is very dry. There are some gems though: the critical thinking materials in week 1 are truly original and worthwhile even to someone who already knows computer security. The teaching method they use - grounding the topic in an interesting example, and inviting the audience to think about it in advance, is a great teaching method. The course could be improved by extending it to other sections.

It's really a great course to start for people who want to get a better understanding of the cybersecurity field. Although there is a lot of useful information, there are also several drawbacks, like the fact that the audio for some parts of the videos is not clear enough (and I end up having to rely fully on the subtitles in order to grasp the material better). And I hope in the future they will provide some PDF materials as an addition to their videos so their students can read them without having to go back to the videos. Anyway, I quite enjoy this course, and it motivates me to learn more about this field! :)

I found the course quite enjoyable and highly informative. It provided me with a solid foundation in cybersecurity, covering topics such as its history, various types of attacks, frameworks, and incident response. However, there were instances where I struggled to hear the instructors clearly due to low audio volume, and there were moments where I felt somewhat disconnected. Additionally, mentioning slide numbers without showing the slides made it challenging to follow along, resulting in a somewhat abstract learning experience. Nonetheless, I still found the course to be overall great and insightful.

It would sure help if your speakers had some knowledge of the English language. The men, in particular, were generally semi-literate: minimal familiarity with syntax, idiom, pronunciation, and general rules of grammar. Thankfully, the videos narrated by women were better. Course content is good, but again, PRESENTATION skills are important (IF you want people to learn easily) so repetition of a phrase immediately following its vocalization is NOT good; "um" is not a word; and technical proficiency is NOT a substitute for sound teaching methodology! Learn from your mistakes!

Overall, this is a pretty good course and I learned a lot. The biggest objection I have is that sometimes I could NOT understand some of the speakers and the transcript was not much help in those situations (the transcript might say something like "inaudible"). I also have many years' experience in the IT field (mainly in applications, operating systems, compilers, not in cybersecurity) so I understood many references but I could understand where some less experienced individuals might not understand all references. But, overall, I would recommend the course.

The excellent knowledge and information is held back by occasional mic quality of the educators and in some cases, inexperience in speaking. The documented texts of their lessons mitigates these problems in most cases, but when a speaker's speech is free-flowing, it can be difficult to follow even while reading and in some instances, the computer itself misinterprets a word or simply fails to understand the word itself. Overall, a strong course that teaches the basics of Cybersecurity. Learned a lot and hope to learn more.

Very good introductory course, covered quite a range of different aspects and foundational concepts that will be useful for more advanced study and also have given a good overall idea of the cybersecurity field. I do recommend the course!

To the IBM team, my constructive feedback is that it is such a great course that it deserves an content update (in a few sections info is dated) and better audio tracks (for many of the videos, it is quite hard to follow without subtitles). That said: great job folks, keep it up!

Informative course, structured in small chunks, great teachers. Thank you.

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"Correct" answers to some graded quiz questions are apparently incorrect - source of annoyance and frustration. Some graded quizzes include material from another week (somebody reorganized the weeks lectures but not the quiz questions). And some graded quiz questions are not part of the leaned material at all - be ready to Google search (what is the point of this?). Did I say annoying?

The course was geared to a non-IT professional like myself. It has given me valuable insights into the basics of cybersecurity, the jargon, the very fundamental tools for cybersecurity, and the impact of lax cybersecurity on organisation and individual.

One aspect may be improved: the audio could be improved in several videos, as it went low and high. Due to the variety of English accents, it was difficult to follow some of the videos.

Overall nice course; thanks to IBM for creating it.

The Introduction to Cybersecurity Tools & Cyber Attacks was an interesting introductory course. I learned many security concepts regarding Cybersecurity. Some of the lessons were really hard to understand because they were high-security level/technical lectures. As an entry-level cybersecurity individual, it was tough to grasp the information. Overall, I enjoyed this course and hope to keep learning IBM Cybersecurity Analyst!

Thanks to all of the professors for the lessons.

In terms of the material, as an introductory course is ok. There was a lot of inconsistencies on how the slides where presented and audio quality, so most of the times I needed to adapt to the presentators. There were some short videos that could easily be edited and prevent noises, non-audible parts and clear pronunciation when naming acronyms that were not presented in the visual material. Some of the quizes had question with no good answer.. i tried them.

Hello,

The course was easy to follow and capture the essential points of the lessons. However, due to some language proficiency of some of the speakers, it was not always easy to understand what they were saying at times. Additionally, sometimes the notes or what was presented was not always covered for what was asked on some of the quizzes and tests. It was apparent though of the expertise of the speakers. Overall though this was a great introductory course.

the audio quality was poor in many of the videos which made it difficult to understand sometimes and I had to rewatch some of the videos several times beause of this, the information provided was very good. There were times the information provided referencedd material that was more advanced than the current topic and I would have to look up information they referenced in order to understand the topic. but otherwise the information was informative.

The overall course was good, but in some lecture videos the voice of the instructor was not clear and there were times when the transcript was not accurate. I was quite familier with many terms of cyber security used in the course because of which I was able to understand the correct term but I think if some one who newly start with cyber security, he will not understand many terms. I hope these things will be solved for future learners.

This is very good and i came to know a lot of different things about Cyber security and others similar topic and it encouraged me to learn more about this topic in future.

One thing, that is the audio quality of some lessons was not so good, that was a little bit problem for me to understand.And also some instructors pronunciation was a little harder to understand.

But the topics are easy to understand and easy to learn .

Its a great into course to get you started into the world of cybersecurity. I wasn't familiar with some terms so you have to do independent research outside of coursera to understand those more. But an issue that I kept coming across with is that for many video notes, the text will read inaudible so even if you don't understand what the instructor is saying, the correct words are not reflected via text.

i enjoyed the course and was very informative for a beginner,which i have learned enough basic introduction to the course and I intend to further into cyber security progromm to enable me swich my carrer to the IT world and i recommend the coursera t anyone who wants to venture into cyber security.

The only setback was it would have been wonderful if we could have practics of all the tools we learnt.

First I would like to thank all the organizations and staffs for making search a place where you can get different skills making Education affordable to those who are not much privilege's affording the knowledge. I myself I feel blessed and thankful at my level having finishing the Introduction to cyber security and tools though it is much abroad but I have the spirit in continuing to be more advanced.

The course is pretty good but the lecturer in some videos is too fast and some videos have bad quality, but overall this is a really good course they bring the material professionally. Although some people say the course is outdated but I don't think so as the course teaches you about concepts most of the time. I recommend taking a look at this course and check out whether this suits you or not.

The course material was very descriptive and understandable (some were challenging!!) ! I rate a 4 due to my experience with the quizzes, some answers were marked as incorrect when they were in fact correct based on the material presented in the slides and provided by the instructors. Also, the audio for some instructors had a lot of feedback making the instructor inaudible at times. Thanks!

A good amount of the videos are not clear audio-wise and visually, some of the things are INAUDIBLE and the transcripts in those cases do not help at all. I think it would be better off for you guys and for us to update the videos with a higher resolution and a better speaker or at least for that speaker to speak through a more CLEAR microphone and take their time when saying the terms.

Ótimo curso, oferece uma visão bem detalhada sobre os conceitos princiapalmente para o lado administrativo e gerencial da Cyber Segurança.

Ele é perfeito para inciantes para esse ambiente, porém eu aconselho a ter uma base do que é a Cyber Segunrança em geral para esse curo. O curso pode melhorar a qualdiade das imagens e do audio de alguns capitulos que são bem complicados de entender

The quality of the sound and videos could have better and the information up to date because we are in 2020 and I found they were giving information from 2016/2017. Also the subtitle were bad for when we couldn’t understand the audio so sometimes it’s was a bit difficult. But overall I enjoyed it and I learnt a lot from this course and looking forward to continue onto a different one.