This course is not sufficiently polished to be worth the Coursera subscription fee. The low quality of the audio recordings for the presentations, the standard of written English and attention to detail make this a flawed product. From the course forums I note these issues have been raised by other students previously with apparent minimal improvement. As a world leading company IBM should take ownership and address these issues if they value their brand.

The audio quality of this is so bad that even there are [inaudible] sections sprinkled through the course. It's obviously being recorded over the phone, but can't IBM afford a decent audio engineer? The instructors often ramble, and the questions at the end of each question sometimes reference things that were only referred to obliquely by the instructors. Not impressed at all, especially given the IBM name. I'll stick with LInkedIn Learning or Udemy.

I managed to learn some interesting concepts but the quality is surprisingly low. I would have never expected IBM branding such low quality material. The audios are sometimes impossible to understand, in some videos the lecturer is interrupted by door knockings, the presentations are really unhelpful/boring. In general, the course is not well structured.

Somewhat interesting, very frustrating.

In my opinion not worth the money.

I feel I could have finished faster if the voice overs were more clearer. Even with the subtitles, it would show inaudible. I had to replay the videos several times. I learned a lot, but I feel the voiceovers could have a better script instead of just speaking normally as they would with their friends. I really was trying to finish within 7 days for my free trial, but took longer than it should have, which is very frustrating.

There may be good information here but I'm half way through the second week's material and the presentation skills of the SMEs is very poor. It is obvious they made a single pass at recording each lecture, with presenters stumbling over topics, searching for words and basically just hacking their way through. Very unfortunate as I was looking forward to an IBM certification but for now, I'll look elsewhere.

Audio quality is an issue (significant); simply refer to the AI generated transcripts. Most of the work in this course was listening to the lecturers. A minor secondary complaint would be the sheer number of acronyms and the reliance on them, more often than not to the detriment of understanding the thing represented by said acronym(s), though I suspect this an issue within the field itself more broadly.

As an introductory course to cybersecurity, it is good. It does what it says in the title. You learn extremely basic stuff. It loses a lot of points based on the quality of the videos. Anyone who takes this course trying to learn from scratch and start a new career should supplement this with a lot of other, external resources. The resources provided in the course are certainly not enough.

Bad audio for the class videos, sometimes depending on the person it is difficult to hear the pronunciation well, which does not help me since my first language is not English and it is difficult to understand what he meant, the truth is that it is difficult for me to learn like this. I have not liked the course at all so far. It has been very theoretical and not at all interactive.

Good Intro but not getting deep enough as I have expected. There are no tools with which interact/train with, such as SIEM apps (OSSIM) for instance.

Honestly I wouldn't have paid the price if I could realise in advance that a high portion of the thematic could be read out from Wikipedia.

It is perfect for new students, it gives a good overview of the principles though.

There Is 2 lecturer I don't remember their name.The Speech Quality Not so good as i expected.The Senior One talk like he can't talk properly. Believe me when he was talking i just pause the Video read the subtitles under the video and searched google and understand the Topics.So please make the voice and sound clear so that the topic can be learned perfectly.

Οι παρουσιάσεις είναι πολύ πρόχειρα δομημένες, δεν τραβάνε το ενδιαφέρον. Η ποιότητα χαμηλή και ακόμα και ο ήχος μέτριος. Δεν αξίζει το ποσό που χρεώνετε για αυτό το Certificate, άλλα τις Udemy αντίστοιχα είναι κλάσεις καλύτερα και στο 1/3 της τιμής. Επίσης δεν γίνεται σωστή ανάλυση όρων για αυτούς που είναι Beginner, όπως αναγράφει το κάθε Course.

I have learned from course, however it has been more of going to Google and Wikipedia to understand further. Some links, data are really helpful in course, however quality of audio and visuals could have been much more better.

Audio specifically has created a lot of nuisance, and someone from Coursera should consider redesigning the course content .

To make the course more accessible, the transcript ought to be reviewed by a human being. Automatic transcription is clearly not up to the task when some speaks English with a thick Spanish accent.

Duplicate information between section could be removed too.

Some real-life examples would have been a useful supplement to this mainly theoretical course.

A good attempt but the presenters struggle with the content. At times it's absolute gibberish and the testing is guessing as the content is breezed over in an unclear approach. It's OK as a course but lacks the level of professionalism one would expect from IBM. I think some presentation training would be beneficial at IBM.

The videos where (too) long, the quality / cosmetics of the slides, together with the audio where of a too low quality, let alone that some of the speakers were very hard to follow due to a strong accent in their English. This is not the level of quality I expect from a company like IBM on a platform like Coursera.

Many presenters are hard to understand, and the transcripts don't help (they include words like [inaudible], so you can't even rely on the transcripts). It's kind of a joke. In addition, you definitely need some IT background for this. I had to look up acronyms in almost every video for the last 2 weeks.

Clearly some internal training has been re-hashed (no pun intended) for external use. Slides includes typos, speakers mumble and the transcripts haven't been QA-ed. A number of the questions in the Module 1 quiz in fact are covered until Module 4, which shows what little time has been spent finessing this.

Good content, but quality of the material is not. It is more recording where quality of audio is not perfect, diction of trainers is annoying sometimes because some mouse sounds are heard. Illustration is poor and not interactive. There is no feeling that you are attending classes. It is a recording.

Some videos were very hard to hear. The audio recordings were not good at all. Some of the presenters had very hard to understand accents. The links on the slides did not work. Some slides had black text on blue backgrounds, when I went full screen on the slide videos, the text was garbled.

the contents is good the challenge is some of the presenters accents are difficult to follow specially with bad comm . they sound like speaking out of a tank or bad landline .

it would make more sense if they do it from a proper place with better quality mics not from home with bad headset

Most of the video's audio quality varies from poor to very very poor. One has to continuously read the written text below to understand. Secondly, most of the video shows slides that contain many URL links, and slides are not provided. As a result, we could not go through those URL links.

The content of the course if decent, but the presentation isn't very engaging. The English transcripts of the videos contain many mistakes. Especially the recording of the videos is poorly done with different volume levels, long pauses, etc. Not what I am used to from other IBM courses.

I liked the content and the structure but narration was not clear. In many areas it was difficult to understand. Examples provided or refrenced were seems out of date which was dated back to 2018.

I am definatly more knowledgeable on cybersecurity now than before taking this course.

The content is fine. However the quality of the sound and slides leave much to be desired. It looks like the speakers were talking over the phone or usingt their computer microphone. It was difficult to follow them. I did not expect it from IBM. Guys, you need to update your course.

Good course. However NO NONE ZERO introduction to cybersecurity tools. Only theory.

Some speakers are very bad (eg. McLaughlin) can't understand what they talk even with the subtitles on.

Please add some actual tools and teach about them.

Long story short- Waste of time and money.