Cyber threats present a constant challenge today, costing billions and affecting everyone, from governments to small businesses. Are you ready to contribute to the solution?
This course will provide you with a deep understanding of cybersecurity principles, industry standards, regulations, and audit processes. You will explore the fundamental concepts of information security and compliance, covering topics such as governance, risk, compliance, cybersecurity frameworks, and process management.
You will also learn about IT service management and explore the NIST risk management framework and AI ethical considerations. You will gain insights into cybersecurity laws and regulations, focusing on both US and global perspectives, including HIPPA, GDPR, and PCI DSS. Additionally, you will familiarize yourself with the audit processes using the COBIT framework and SOC reports. You will also explore prominent standards such as OWASP, ISO, and IEEE, learning how to apply them effectively.
Throughout this five-module self-paced course, you will engage in interactive activities to apply your knowledge in real-world scenarios. You will also complete a final project to test your skills and showcase your understanding.
Join us on this cybersecurity journey!
Status: Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standards
Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standards
Status: Regulatory Compliance
Regulatory Compliance
Intermediate·Course·11 hours
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RD
5.0·Reviewed Mar 7, 2023
This is one of the best courses I have attended. I learned a lot in the Cybersecurity field. I thought I knew much in this subject until I took this course. I love it.
MT
4.0·Reviewed Jul 23, 2025
Awesome Course Although a little boring in perspective of less activity to perform through learning but it lays great foundational concept in mind with a Final project to apply it on
JR
5.0·Reviewed Aug 11, 2024
Not too deep explanations - not necessary for now, medium-to-easy to understand, well structured course. Highly recommended even to just understand about compliance in IT environment.
NJ
5.0·Reviewed Oct 22, 2022
An excellent course that gives you the knowledge about the cybersecurity framework and how to administrate and put policies in any network following the security protocols and international rules.
MG
5.0·Reviewed Apr 25, 2020
Very solid course. Quick overview about almost everything you need to know at the beginning. A lot of useful links with additional material to study. Thanks a lot for sharing the knowledge, indeed!
PU
5.0·Reviewed Dec 19, 2020
Very helpful in cyber security. I real learned a lot above organizations involving in cybersecurity and how compliance on the standards a better way of keeping information and systems secured.
DP
4.0·Reviewed Aug 19, 2022
Excellent course for beginners. Just a minor glitch where one of the instructors in one of the cryptography modules refers to the well-known cryptographer Bill Schneier (instead of Bruce).
LG
5.0·Reviewed Jan 5, 2023
it amaizing course I have got Alot of Knowledge but certificate is prohibited to me how no problem i hav got Enough Skill thank you for suporting me.keep it up
SZ
5.0·Reviewed Jul 5, 2020
I would recommend since this is a very useful lesson to those who wants to works in as a NOC or SOC. It is essential to get to knows all of the fundamentals and their behaviours.
AS
4.0·Reviewed Jun 27, 2020
Course is great only Presentation is not good. This courses uses slides with audio which is not intaractive. also you should add some virtual labs to the course like the courses offered by google.
CH
5.0·Reviewed Jun 12, 2023
I've learned or recaped lots of useful things.I like the idea of doing the labs, knowledge & hands-on about server administration and performing work on endpoints. Thank You!
AA
4.0·Reviewed Nov 27, 2020
This is a one of the great course that i followed on the coursera learning platform. Also, this course gave me to learn the best practices that can used to protect computing related systems.
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Robert Garlington
5.0
·Reviewed Jan 8, 2020
Course content is informative, applicable and its delivered in a manner so that concepts, methods and tools can be understood. In most scenarios, the tools, methods and concepts are explained in enough detail to allow comprehension and in other scenarios a demo is provided. Good course for anyone interested in Cybersecurity but be warned, you will need to put in the time, some areas are difficult and will require that the material and concepts be reviewed multiple times.
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Jeff Jackson
5.0
·Reviewed Jan 26, 2020
Thorough coverage of IT security compliance frameworks and solid linkage between key concepts like the CIA triad and the frameworks. Additionally this course does well showing the connection of the compliance frameworks like SOX and GDPR to important security practices in system administration. The course makes clear the WHY behind the WHAT in managing secure enterprise environments - or even just your personal computers at home.
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MFvanDeelen
5.0
·Reviewed Dec 2, 2019
A very nice and fun course. Some parts are really demanding and require you to pay attention very closely. The one of Cryptography was really nice. To the one of Endpoints and Unified EndPoint Management taught me a lot on how to properly set it up.
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MOSHREKUL ISLAM
1.0
·Reviewed Jun 25, 2020
Learning materials are very poor and not up-to-date. Also the presentation of instructor is very poor quality.
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Srinivasan Kanniah
5.0
·Reviewed Dec 28, 2019
Great course on compliance framework specific to cybersecurity and system administration. Learned new concepts around general as well as industry specific regulatory compliance and its key components. Thank you IBM team, and Coursera team
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Sachin Nagpal
3.0
·Reviewed Jan 2, 2020
Poor video & Audio quality.
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Suman Saurabh
2.0
·Reviewed Jul 27, 2020
Barely a good course and that is saying a lot about it
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Craig Leaver
5.0
·Reviewed May 7, 2020
Another excelletnt course covering many aspects useful for anyone looking to improve their own knowledge of cybersecurity and cyptography.
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Pavel Rumenov
1.0
·Reviewed Mar 13, 2020
Never use staistics to prove skills and why the heck would you make this certificate a "payed"one?!
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Saurav Malve
3.0
·Reviewed Jun 3, 2020
A bit theoretical. But some instructors were very good.
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AKSHAY REDDY MUPPIDI
2.0
·Reviewed May 1, 2020
AUDIO CLARITY IS below average
content is good
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Modestas Girdzevicius
5.0
·Reviewed Apr 26, 2020
Very solid course. Quick overview about almost everything you need to know at the beginning. A lot of useful links with additional material to study. Thanks a lot for sharing the knowledge, indeed!
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PUREUM WI
5.0
·Reviewed Nov 7, 2019
정말 필요한 과목들만 알차게 모아서 들어있습니다. 게다가 NIST, CIS를 비롯하여 GDPR과 같은 최신동향도 강의에서 반영되어 있어 아주 만족스러웠습니다. 다만, 강의가 아주 심도깊은 레벨은 아니고 개론식으로 이해하고 넘어가는 측면이기 때문에 심화지식을 원하시는 분들은 다른 강의를 추가적으로 찾아보셔야 합니다.
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Prashik Gujar
3.0
·Reviewed May 29, 2020
the instructor was confused what he is teaching about
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Eric Desiadenyo
5.0
·Reviewed Jan 3, 2021
This is a great course by all standards. This course is supposed to be practical in nature especially the System Administration part so that students can practice all the permissions that were taught.
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Nathaniel F H Myers
5.0
·Reviewed Jul 16, 2022
My faviorite course of the series so far. It felt like more of an accoumplishment then the past courses, because this one actually gets into the various methods of protecting data/systems/network.
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PETER UDOFIA
5.0
·Reviewed Dec 20, 2020
Very helpful in cyber security. I real learned a lot above organizations involving in cybersecurity and how compliance on the standards a better way of keeping information and systems secured.
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Valdo Ramakuela
5.0
·Reviewed May 3, 2020
This was the best way for me to start cybersecurity as I want to specialize in Information security. This clearly boosted my knowledge
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Agnel Bernard
5.0
·Reviewed Jun 10, 2020
Very informative Course, Improves the knowledge to be prepared of attacks and threats for an IT industry in an evolving world.
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Vivek Singh
5.0
·Reviewed Jun 9, 2020
very good course to learn new things about the cybersecurity compliance framework &system administration
