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    Learner Reviews & Feedback for Penetration Testing, Threat Hunting, and Cryptography by IBM

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    About the Course

    The cost of a security breach averages nearly $5M (IBM) and is increasing every year. So, businesses are always looking for professionals who
    can anticipate threats and prevent them. This IBM Penetration Testing, Threat Hunting, and Cryptography course builds expertise in identifying
    vulnerabilities, protecting assets, and using AI and cryptography techniques to strengthen an organization’s cybersecurity posture. During the
    course, you’ll explore the penetration testing phases and gain practical experience performing software pen testing and scanning code
    repositories. You’ll also learn to create comprehensive pen testing reports, perform threat hunting, and integrate AI into thre...
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    Top reviews

    MM

    May 7, 2025

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    Professional insights and valuable course to be honest, I developed my skills and my passion grows now due to this outstanding course and the lab was enjoyable as well. Thanks from bottom of my heart.

    EB

    Mar 6, 2023

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    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.

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    By Karan m

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    Jul 28, 2020

    Penetration testing needs to have lab assignments, just a theoretical aspect of this makes no sense.

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    By Todd D

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    Aug 31, 2020

    Poorly put together course that did not provide the resources to adequately learn the materials. Labs did not have proper instructions, were riddled with broken links and resources and had no method with which you could check your work.

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    Jul 12, 2020

    The quality of this course is very disappointing. Incorrect information is provided in the very first video of the course. The lack of ability to demonstrate proficiency to record lectures with quality audio and video leaves one doubting the technical capabilities of the instructor to use even the most basic technology, let alone demonstrate proficiency in more advanced topics. This course diminishes the reputation of IBM.

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    By adedeji

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    Jun 24, 2020

    Whao! I must say that of all the pen testing and python courses I have taken, this is the best of them all. One thing with learning is that as you learn from different instructors, you tend to have a deeper and better understanding of the what is being taught. I STRONGLY recommend this course to anyone who wants to be a top-notch cyber security analyst/professional and with confidence, you will have no regrets. Just make sure you follow the course systematically, read up any provided links or references and you will be fine. DO NOT SKIP OR IGNORE THE ADDITIONAL LINKS OR REFERENCES TO GET THE BEST OUT OF THIS COURSE.

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    By Serge P

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    Oct 27, 2021

    If you hear "Raul will explain", you can pause the video and start reading, it will save you a lot of time

    Raul needs a new microphone

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    By Shihab S

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    Jun 24, 2020

    The course content was good. If instructor showed more tools for pentest I think then it would be more helpful to learn.

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    By Sagar .

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    Jun 23, 2020

    Loved it. A great course for anyone interested in Pen-testing and forensics. Each and every module of the course is perfectly built, and the quizzes make sure that you have leaned something in each part of the module and the course.

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    By Sayaka C

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    Oct 18, 2021

    partially very poor audio.

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    By Sal S

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    Jan 25, 2022

    the way it was presented wasn't good at all. mic problems and understanding was a nightmare at times.

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    By Valdo R

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    Jun 21, 2020

    nice and informative course but the scripting part is audio poor

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    By Rohan P

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    Jun 25, 2020

    It was great experience learning this course. This course gives all the knowledge required for a beginner to start career in Cyber Security domain with all the concepts and other documentations attached. Very much Helpful.

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    By MuhammadObais

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    Oct 17, 2022

    I learn to many skills set into this course and my weakenss also be strong as we course design to motivate my self to learn about deep and extend my knowledge.

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    Coursera Team

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    By Rajendra S

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    Jun 17, 2020

    easy to understand

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    By mohamed s

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    Jun 21, 2020

    Great course 👍

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    By PENUGONDA V

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    Jul 7, 2020

    you need to improve the way of explanation because it is hard to understand while you explaining the topics and another horrible thing is Rahul explanation because his voice is not audible

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    By János K

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    Oct 3, 2021

    I think it is vewry good start for a beginner!

    Contents are ok but the quality of the videos are vwery-very poor.

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    By Eduardo C

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    May 10, 2023

    The content of the course is very informative, however it is barely and very fast introduced, in addition the audio of the videos is terrible.

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    By Didier H

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    Jul 3, 2020

    Interesting content but the audio is stilll presented like an online call

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    By Stefano C

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    May 1, 2021

    some part of the video the audio is very bad

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    By George L T

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    Mar 10, 2021

    This is definitely 5 stars course, it brought new bird a entry level views which details of the knowledge of the PenTesting, IR and Forensics knowledge, it prepared a take away weapons for a System Security Professional.

    Thanks so much IBM and Coursera to introduced the quality course content, thanks.

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    By Vivek N

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    Dec 9, 2020

    The course is nice for informational purposes. It seems to provide every minute details about the course in theory.if possible the course could have an additional week for practicals like lab work.

    other than that the course really helped me getting know to forensics and penetration testing.

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    By Tristan O

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    Oct 14, 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 Ranjeet K

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    Aug 15, 2023

    I would like to say, Thanks to IBM for the Worthy Course. I learned about pentesting and Python programming and so on. Thanks to all teachers for their teaching styles. Very easy to understand.

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    By Rashid M

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    Aug 10, 2020

    Good course which gives as much details about administration and infrastructure services . A Big thank you for IBM , Coursera and The instructor for giving a valuable knowledge to me. Thank you

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    By Suhreed S

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    Jan 14, 2022

    The course provided important skills on penetration test, incident reponse and digital forensics. It has enhnaces and my knoledge in these field and made me confident working with these.

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