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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 Effat E

Mar 29, 2021

What I liked most about this course in comparison to others is the added video of the presenter next to the slides content. This helped me focus and absorb the content better.

By lai y

Mar 28, 2021

I learn something , if got some written assessment is much better for learners to test the knowledges and the key takeaways

By Michael M

Oct 8, 2020

I ABSOLUTELY Enjoyed learning about Mostly Forensics. Like out of all it caught my attention! I'd do it again if I can!

By Jose N N

Mar 25, 2023

Amazing course again. Learned so much and I love the Python basics!

By Merryl A

Jun 26, 2021

Its not as good as per IBM standards as it was just one person reading sentences from the slides.

Python and scripting was interesting though.

By Olumide E O

Oct 21, 2021

It's okay. But it could have been much better. I expected more becuase of the quality standard set by earlier courses in the specialization.

By Brian E I

Jan 19, 2023

Too theory based and not enough practical application. There are some good external resources for learning pentesting skills and seeing how IBM's QRadar works, but the entire Python section needs to be entirely reworked, from the voice recordings all the way to the content and, at the very least, add resources that show practical application of Python for cybersecurity.

By Jason L

Mar 19, 2021

The course does not accurately display the amount of time required to complete this week; do expect twice the amount stated, as there is lab work.

By Joseph L

Aug 10, 2020

The presenter in the videos was boring and just read the script. There were many grammatical errors in the questions. I believe there to be factual errors in the questions. Finally, the content seemed arbitrary, like the final week quiz was just basic python and CS history. All in all, a very poor offering from IBM and I would be ashamed to have my company logo on this course product.

By Jonathan V C

Apr 1, 2021

Of all the certification courses I wanted to reach this one to learn, practically, how to do penetration testing, but again all this certification it's only theory. A short video mentioning that Kali Linux got all you need for penetration testing and nothing else, everyone interested on penetration testing knows that, thank you. Completly dissapointed.

By Willem V

Feb 16, 2022

Some of the Audio is the worst I have ever heard. I have to print out the lecture just to understand what was said. Coursera should investigate this, and get IBM to provide proper lectures. Im very disappointed with Coursera.

By Afraa W

Feb 5, 2022

I can't get certificate just because coursera can't recognize my id. Please have a look at this issue. It is very saddening as well as disappointing

By Keith S

Oct 16, 2022

This course was set up for success. Easy to follow instructing. Videos were really well put together. Seeing how I am a note take I loved the fact that the videos had transcripts. I could take notes as I read them and then watch the videos to see it in action.

I learned a lot and found out other areas to explore with the tools that were mentioned in all of the videos.

I will be taking more classes like this one.

By Mikey S

Jan 30, 2022

This course was great, the level of difficulty is good. I need to go back and review some things. The one thing that needs to be updated are the links to the Advanced Digital Forensics lab and the link to the virtual environment for the Beginning Digital Forensics lab. The Python lab doesn't work either, I will try the instructions again.

Great course and I love hands-on things like going through the QRadar lab.

By Cleiton C

Dec 5, 2022

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💞 I LOVE IBM , the courses and opportunities you offer. You don't know me, know that IBM courses and training platforms have the same life. Today I am successful and I am happy.!!! 🏆

I am immensely GRATEFUL to IBM and the team of Devs who are behind these educational works and projects. 💝✨🥷👩💻✍️

Thank's!!!

Cleiton Corrêa- Senior Engineer Software -

Bauru/São Paulo - Brasil

By nouf k

Aug 9, 2020

It was a great introductory course on really interesting and important topics, gave us quite enough on each and every one of them. The course doesn't require deep knowledge in cybersecurity and depends a lot on self learning! I loved the resources that the course included from labs to articles to tools, they were all so helpful and great to explore!

By Kevin E M J

Sep 14, 2022

I am in school for my BS in CyberSecurity with a focus on Intelligence and Forensic Studies. This course pushed me, and will make me better at my job. This course will ultimately help me to better analyze and detect problems faster, and by doing that I will be able to save companies, or my government millions of dollars in the long run.

By Cassian R

Apr 30, 2023

The Course is an excellent opportunity for a beginner to commence the Cybersecurity ecosystem and the resources are abundant, relevant and direct the user in the right direction. The quiz have been created to make it challenging and interesting to complete them. It is a totally immersive course. Thank you Coursera.

By Mohamed A H O

Jul 25, 2021

I really appreciate the great effort of Coursera and IBM for this course, it is really a great experience learning this course. This course gives all the knowledge required to start career in Cyber Security domain with all the concepts and other documentations attached. Very much Helpful. Thank you so much..

By Jimmy M A

Dec 3, 2021

The more I learn the more I feel there is to learn. These courses are amazing! I want to become the best analyst I can and I realize this will be a challenge. The information provided in the course along with the links to other sites is a treasure chest of information.

By Sergio H A

Jan 28, 2023

I like very much this course because is plenty of new items to me, I think is complete and have many resources that can be consulted and get additional knowledge. The laboratories were amazing and easy to realize.

Congratulations to instructors sen my bes regards!

By Elvis S

Nov 8, 2021

Although many of the materials i was already prepared from different learnings this course really helps out with many missing pieces of information and details !

For sure a must to have and learn for everyone who is an enthusiast in CyberSecurity

By A.Respress

Mar 6, 2021

This course definitely went into rigorous metrics of programming at an expert level! I enhanced my intermediate knowledge to gain a higher understanding of hash operations in programming as well as a deeper understanding of Python methodology.

By Aung K M

May 21, 2023

This will be a good carrier for the future of an IT security technician. This learning is a good support how to avoid and prevent the cyber attack and will know the techniques of cyber penetration. A lot of thanks to IBM and Coursera.

By Gianluis R

Feb 1, 2022

Loved this. The reading resources and labs are great. The Python videos are kind of too fast except the first two, so have to take the time to study by reading the transcript and/or re-watching the videos. Overall a very good course.