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Sound the Alarm: Detection and Response

This is the sixth course in the Google Cybersecurity Certificate. Learners will focus on incident detection and response. They will learn what defines a security incident and explain the incident response lifecycle, including the roles and responsibilities of incident response teams. Learners will analyze and interpret network communications to detect security incidents using packet sniffing tools to capture network traffic. By assessing and analyzing artifacts, learners will explore the incident investigation and response processes and procedures. Additionally, they will develop a conceptual overview of log data and their role in intrusion detection systems (IDS) and Security Information Event Management (SIEM) tools. Learners who complete this certificate will be equipped to apply for entry-level cybersecurity roles. No previous experience is necessary. By the end of this course, you will: - Explain the lifecycle of an incident. - Describe the tools used in documentation, detection, and management of incidents. - Analyze packets to interpret network communications. - Perform artifact investigations to analyze and verify security incidents. - Identify the steps to contain, eradicate, and recover from an incident. - Determine how to read and analyze logs during incident investigation. - Interpret the basic syntax and components of signatures and logs in Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) and Network Intrusion Detection Systems (NIDS) tools. - Perform queries in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) tools to investigate an event.

Status: Computer Security Incident Management
Status: Intrusion Detection and Prevention
BeginnerCourse18 hours

Featured reviews

SE

4.0Reviewed Jul 11, 2024

I loved this coursed and learned so much. The only thing I would have liked to see is if the all of the SIEM tools were integrated into a lab like many of the other labs are directly in the courses.

EF

5.0Reviewed Aug 15, 2024

This is a great course, it gives a complete breakdown of all cybersecurity details to learn all expected knowledge needed to be effective in the field

ND

4.0Reviewed May 8, 2025

The professor’s teaching is excellent, making complex topics easy to understand. The study material provided is also awesome and very helpful for learning. Highly recommended!

SW

4.0Reviewed Mar 5, 2026

I'm really enjoying this course, and how you can go faster though parts you know and take more time though sections you don't. It's really helped me learn parts i was struggling with much easier.

US

5.0Reviewed Oct 16, 2023

Learnt a lot about SIEM tools and much more that are all ready to be applied in the job. Thanks a lot to Google and Coursera for such a wonderful session.

NN

5.0Reviewed Nov 4, 2023

Great course. The course needs more practical training on how to use suricata, splunk and chronicle, with real on-the -job tasks will definitely help. Once again. Great course and instructor.

JR

5.0Reviewed Feb 20, 2025

I am impressed with the excellent level of information I have received, the very useful links, resources, and the lab practices available to practice. Everything was over my expectations

TK

4.0Reviewed Sep 25, 2023

just a few improvements that should be made, some parts confused me of not knowing what is being asked of me. Other than that, it's an excellent course.

WR

4.0Reviewed May 21, 2023

The material was very good, but the sound quality was less than ideal. I had to turn the volume way up on the instruction, and back-down on the day-in-the-life segments.

LS

4.0Reviewed May 29, 2023

The sound for the main videos was very low. Even with max volume I had trouble hearing. I didn't have this problem with the other courses in this certificate. Great content though!

MT

4.0Reviewed Dec 14, 2023

I think a little more in depth training on (tcpdump-wireshark-splunk-chronicle) perhaps even with some real life data. It's one thing to capture data but interpreting it is a totally different skill.

KA

5.0Reviewed Sep 13, 2024

the learning tools, hands on and additional information for further read up is so informative. best decision ever. proud i have done this much and come this far.

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