Cybersecurity Fundamentals

First off, an enormous round of applause to the instructor Mr. Weissman and everyone else that worked on this amazing course. I personally filled several weeks of research to find the perfect curriculum on this subject, so I consider that, especially after completing this course, I am appropriately qualified to say this is by far the best course you can find, content alone, the fact that it's free only increases its impressiveness! The sessions are well thought out and explained exceptionally by Mr. Weissman and the optional hands on activities and additional resources give hours of additional learning content, as well as some very entertaining articles, without the trouble of trying to find similar content yourself! This is a wealth of knowledge made by many educated and hardworking people and their efforts show off in quality. Look no further, if you're looking for a course on cybersecurity, you've found a perfect match. Don't just take my word for it, take the voice of this vast and diverse student body that have already completed and reaped the lavish rewards of this course!.

It was well structured and it was presented with a great deal of passion and wonderful explanations with a lot of examples to get one's understanding. The Extra course links was an added bonus that one can reference while studying the material. The way in which the course was presented from unit one to the last unit makes it easy for one to follow and understand the fundamentals which is the building blocks of the cyber security. I personally think the understanding of the fundamentals was key to just getting the right answers in the quizzes. I have taken some courses in the past but none come near to what was delivered. The discussion part was other interesting bit of the course as you could share or reply to contributions made by other student which I find very useful in terms what others are talking about on a specific unit

A good introduction course if you're coming to security from a non-IT background or want to go through some of the basics one more time before moving to more challenging courses. It doesn't go much in depth of the covered topics; I'd say it gives you “leads” on what you may want to learn on your own. For example, a video on encryption is less than two minutes long, but it mentions most of the essential things: symmetric vs. asymmetric, (3)DES, RC4, AES, RSA, etc.

I guess my take on the course's title would be “Things you need to be aware of before learning security (highlights) + some definitions.”

(They ask $150 for a certificate which is, in my opinion, wa-a-ay too much for this kind of course, but verified learners get two live Q&A sessions with the instructor and, I think, access to the private forum, so it may be worth it.)