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About the Course

Ready to build essential cybersecurity skills employers need? This beginner course introduces the foundational concepts, tools, and best practices used by cybersecurity professionals. During the course, you’ll learn to identify common threats such as data theft, tampering, phishing, and malware. You’ll discover how cyberattacks unfold and explore the physical, environmental, and access control measures used to secure devices and facilities. Plus, you’ll develop strong digital hygiene habits using secure passwords, password management techniques, and multi-factor authentication, and understand the risks of password reuse, sharing, and default credentials. You’ll also practice device hardening, use encryption tools, apply safe browsing techniques, and configure web browsers to minimize vulnerabilities. Plus, you’ll explore methods of managing and protecting confidential information to prevent identity theft and privacy breaches. Hands-on labs provide practical experience, and a final project tests your proficiency across key cybersecurity topics. Enroll now to gain the essential cybersecurity skills that will help you kickstart your IT career!...

Top reviews

GA

Dec 21, 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 4, 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 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 26, 2024

pretty cool