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I don't regret taking this course considering its not long and fairly easy , However i have some notes about this course:

1. If u are new to Cyber-Security this is a good course for u (NOT THE BEST) , i had some background knowledge and it felt most of the times its too basic and easy

2. the information is not presented well , often times too repetitive and sometimes focusing on completely specific and unimportant stuff for an "Introduction to Cyber Security" course

3. assignments are not well put , not really testing the overall understanding of information and focusing more of memorizing it

4. the audio and the visuals are very bad and disappointing considering its an IBM course this should be a high level course , u can see that there is no preparation from the instructors , some of them don't have good language skills which led to them not being able to demonstrate well the information

5. the instructors are really boring to watch , no passion or clear effort from them

overall a great course if u are starting in Cyber Security and want to complete all courses from IBM u should start from this one but it's not enough and u should definitely check some more sources to learn from

I enjoyed most part of it, but there were several videos with very poor quality in terms of sound and content.

The firewall and cryptography parts were very shallow (even considering it's a simple introduction) and boring and i got better free content from YouTube related to these subjects.

I had a constant feeling that a wasn't getting all the introduction i needed (i always felt that a could not explain what a learned it to someone else) so I paused this course lots times to complete my understandings by reading and watching extra free content outside Coursera, that sometimes were better than this paid course.

I still recommend it because there's a structure to follow and i helps in a first approach. I also recommend this book: How Cybersecurity Really Works, by Sam Grubb -> this book complements this course 1 of IBM.

Even with a 3/5 experience in the course 1 i'm looking forward to start the course 2, for i clearly need some suggested organization to learn about Cybersecurity.

While there is plenty of very useful information in this course, there are several things that could be vastly improved. The test questions are sometimes oddly phrased and material that is not learned until Week 4 is tested in Week 1 (white hat, grey hat, black hat hackers) . There are several one question quizzes that seem arbitrary (ex. "What did this SOC Analyst say was the most useful tool for him?"). In Week one's Critical Thinking section, there appears to be a video that stops halfway. My biggest criticism is that this is a beginner level course but the instructors will throw out technical jargon that doesn't get defined until later in the course, if at all. The following video is the same video but it shows the whole thing. This has potential to be a truly great class but, IBM should really review this course, see what they can streamline, and identify what it is they want people to take away from this class.

There were 2 major problems with this course:

1. Some of the presenters have such thick accents that it was difficult or impossible to understand them. This is a clear barrier to understanding and learning and should be fixed immediately; however, I notice from the comments of others that the complaint has been made for years and I therefore infer no one cares.

2. Some of the presenters delivered the info at a level higher than beginner. This is also a clear barrier to understanding and learning but I guess as long as people earn an overall passing grade, there must not be an actual problem. However, I suspect many others have done what I did and researched the topics on their own using other resources.

If these problems persist for the other courses, I will definitely non-recommend this course to my associates.

The information in this course is not bad, however I want to issue a complaint about the quality of the English transcriptions, which is far below the mark. It seems they are either computer-generated or made by someone with poor hearing and no understanding of the context and/or subject matter. Even a layman who has read the material as a whole, could do a better job. Some of the presenters also explain things using examples, without first explaining the issue in general terms, leaving the learner guessing as to which part of the example is or isn't relevant to the explanation. Some of the quiz questions do not refer to materials discussed in the lecture (example: a question about Vulernability Assessment Methodology in week 1 or 2, while it is explained in week 4!)