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About the Course

This course gives you the background needed to gain Cybersecurity skills as part of the Cybersecurity Security Analyst Professional Certificate program. You will learn about the different phases of penetration testing, how to gather data for your penetration test and popular penetration testing tools. Furthermore, you will learn the phases of an incident response, important documentation to collect, and the components of an incident response policy and team. Finally, you will learn key steps in the forensic process and important data to collect. This course also gives you a first look at scripting and the importance to a system analyst. This course is intended for anyone who wants to gain a basic understanding of Cybersecurity or as the fifth course in a series of courses to acquire the skills to work in the Cybersecurity field as a Cybersecurity Analyst. The completion of this course also makes you eligible to earn the Penetration Testing, Incident Response and Forensics IBM digital badge. More information about the badge can be found https://www.youracclaim.com/org/ibm/badge/penetration-testing-incident-response-and-forensics. In this course you will learn to: • Describe penetration testing tools and the benefits to an organization • Describe a deep dive into incident response techniques and tools • Describe digital forensics and digital evidence. • Discuss the power of scripting....

Top reviews

EB

Mar 5, 2023

after knowing the basic knowledge with high standards applied and taught in detail by IBM, so understanding can be achieved. This section is very useful when entering the world of cybersecurity work.

T

Oct 13, 2022

The course has really helped me learn lots of things conserning penetration testing and digital forensiscs and also bash scripting. All credits to IBM for their humbleness in teachng very well .

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By Panagis S

Jul 10, 2021

Volume is to low and there where few video problems, but it is worth it.

By Ben S

Apr 21, 2021

Should be supplemental after completing the program. A bit overkill.

By Ofori B Y

Apr 2, 2022

Completed all 7 courses however i am unable to access to last one

By Harry T

Jun 12, 2022

Major issues with audio quaitly in many video lessons. :(

By Pankaj B

Sep 3, 2022

Good for theory but not very practical course.

By Ioannis B

Aug 25, 2022

More technical or real world examples needed.

By Ruggero R

Sep 17, 2020

2 star lost for ibm laboratory very slow

By Volkz D

Mar 14, 2022

As always the audio quality sucks.

By SHARIF U D

Aug 2, 2023

Good but no practical work!!

By Akash G

Jul 17, 2020

add some practicals,thanks

By rafael a

Jul 13, 2021

Not enough hands-on.

By Ketaki K

May 18, 2022

Very basic

By Aung H

Jan 5, 2021

aaa

By Sen F

Dec 19, 2021

The main takeaway from this course was that I could barely understand the instructor in a few of the videos. This made it very difficult to absorb the material on the first and second viewing. Even after rereading the material without the audio it was a little easier but still not 100% understandable. While taking the tests, multiple times I either couldn't remember ever covering the questions or the answers to said questions without extensive searching throughout the course material, if I even found the answer at all. Now the reading material was another frustrating issue entirely. I either was denied access to the material that I was expected to read or had to create one or more accounts in order to be able to access it. This is a very poor implementation to provide course material. This course was advertised to take less than 24 hours to complete, which if you add up all of the videos, reading material and quizzes/tests it takes over 72 hours. I'm thankful that I was able to finish all of it and retake a failed exam after a few hours. I was expecting more but after my experience I don't feel like I've gained very much useful info.

By Jodi b

Feb 22, 2023

Not overly thrilled with this section. The forensics is fascinating, however, the link for the forensics lab is broken and couldn't get in touch with anyone about it. The second article after the forensics lab also did not direct me to the right article. In the incident response lab, many of the activities you are supposed to walk through don't work so you are unable to finish some of the interactive labs.

By Marwan N

Dec 26, 2022

Content is interesting for beginners but it is definitely not challenging.

There are several broken links in the course and has recycled content/repeated information that can be quite obvious at times.

Finally, no one will ask you about the history of scripting languages while you're doing incident response and forensic investigations. That section should have been added as an appendix.

By Deleted A

Aug 19, 2021

Raul was easily the best presenter, but the audio cutting out so much made him hard to follow. The other presenters clearly reading from scripts were also difficult to follow, but for a different reason: I was easily distracted from the monotonous drone by pretty much anything in my environment, especially by the female presenter.

By Harry P

Feb 7, 2023

Very little practical work and like the rest of the professional certificate there are only videos that are quite boring and quizzes. Python is introduced but no content on using it for cybersecurity - only a link to a blog post.

By Rohit M

Apr 5, 2021

Need to improve on the content and the trainers. This topic could have been very intersting, but the trainers were not good. The way they spoke, the tone, they themselves didnt seem interested.

By Ignacio B

Jan 12, 2021

It seams that the course is made from other courses and talks. The audio and video is not well edited, sometimes not comprehensible and lacks of consistency.

By Shannon A

Oct 18, 2022

I found this difficult, the exercises in particular.

By Malcom L

Sep 2, 2022

This entire specialization, as far as I have completed, is just people reading off powerpoints and directing you towards other's content. If you are already in a similar field or have a degree in it, it probablywould be of use. If you are just starting out, this course is utterly useless and smells like a cashgrab.

I have not written code nor do they teach you actual practical skills that will get through the job interview. I am finishing this only because they already took my money.

By Jayson M

Jul 22, 2023

Completing the course depends entirely on other people unaffiliated with either Coursera or IBM. Submitting screenshots and having them "graded" will absolutely prevent me from participating in future courses offered by IBM.

By Igor' A

May 22, 2022

although it is aimed at delivering good content it has very bad structure, quality of materials and presentaion. Generally, bad learning experience.

By Omar H

May 25, 2023

highly unrecommended, it consists of theoretical content only without any practical work or even learning us how to apply it in practical life