ONLY UNSPONSORED Review of the Google Cybersecurity Certificate From Coursera
Summary
TLDRThe video script offers a critical review of the Google Cyber Security certificate, highlighting its shortcomings such as lack of emphasis on foundational knowledge, neglect of the Windows operating system, and overemphasis on Python. The reviewer, having completed the certificate, suggests that it is not a valuable stepping stone for a career in cybersecurity and that other certifications might be more beneficial for job seekers.
Takeaways
- 📜 The Google Cyber Security certificate is a new entry in the certification field with a professional certificate aimed at preparing individuals for a career as a cybersecurity analyst.
- 💻 The program is entirely online with on-demand training, allowing learners to proceed at their own pace without any prior experience needed.
- 🎓 Course completion may qualify individuals for various cybersecurity positions such as Security Analyst, IT Security Analyst, and Cyber Defense Analyst, among others.
- 🌐 Google's Career Circle is mentioned as a resource for job seekers, although it's noted that this service is available for free and not exclusive to the certificate holders.
- 🏆 The reviewer has completed the entire program with a 100% score in each course, providing a first-hand perspective on the content and structure of the certificate.
- 📚 The program consists of eight courses covering topics from foundational cybersecurity knowledge to hands-on labs and preparation for cybersecurity jobs.
- 🎥 Course content includes video lectures, readings, discussion prompts, self-review activities, interactive plugins, quizzes, and graded assessments.
- 🖥️ There is a significant focus on Linux and SQL, with less emphasis on Windows, which the reviewer finds problematic given the widespread use of Windows in organizations.
- 🐍 The course on automating cybersecurity tasks with Python is considered the best of the program, but the reviewer criticizes the overemphasis on Python as a mandatory skill in cybersecurity.
- 🗑️ The reviewer's overall opinion is negative, suggesting that the Google Cyber Security certificate is not valuable and that foundational knowledge is more critical for beginners in the field.
Q & A
What is the main claim about the Google Cyber Security Certificate?
-The main claim is that the Google Cyber Security Certificate prepares individuals for a career as a cybersecurity analyst, providing job-ready skills to identify risks, threats, and vulnerabilities, as well as techniques to mitigate them.
What are some of the jobs one might qualify for after completing the Google Cyber Security Certificate?
-After completing the program, individuals might qualify for jobs such as Cyber Security Analyst, Security Analyst, SOC Analyst, Information Security Analyst, IT Security Analyst, and Cyber Defense Analyst.
How is the Google Cyber Security Certificate structured in terms of courses?
-The certificate includes eight different courses covering topics from foundational cybersecurity knowledge to preparing for cybersecurity jobs, with a focus on hands-on practice and application of skills.
What is the cost associated with obtaining the Google Cyber Security Certificate?
-The cost is associated with the Coursera subscription fee, which is $49 per month or $399 per year. However, the speaker mentions completing the program without having to pay, indicating there might be some flexibility in the payment requirements.
How does the Google Cyber Security Certificate address the learning of Python?
-The certificate emphasizes the importance of Python in cybersecurity, offering a course that teaches the basics of Python, writing scripts, and debugging. It suggests Python is a mandatory skill in the cybersecurity field, which the speaker finds concerning as it might not be accurate for all roles.
What is the speaker's main criticism about the Google Cyber Security Certificate?
-The speaker criticizes the certificate for lacking core knowledge teaching, ignoring the Windows operating system, overemphasizing Python, and not aligning with what employers are asking for. They believe the certificate needs a significant overhaul to be considered valuable.
What is the role of Career Circle in the context of the Google Cyber Security Certificate?
-Career Circle is mentioned as a service that provides exclusive access to help find jobs upon completion of the certificate. However, the speaker points out that Google's own service description indicates that Career Circle doesn't charge anyone, making the exclusive access aspect misleading.
How does the Google Cyber Security Certificate approach hands-on practice?
-The certificate includes self-review activities, labs, interactive plugins, and practice quizzes for hands-on practice. However, the speaker notes that the labs are document-based and lack hands-on experience with tools, except for the incident response course which includes beginner-level tool usage.
What is the assessment structure for the Google Cyber Security Certificate courses?
-Each course includes video quizzes, practice quizzes, and graded quizzes. To obtain the certificate, one must score 80 or higher on each graded quiz across all eight courses. There is no limit on the number of attempts, but there is a restriction of three attempts within a 24-hour period.
How does the Google Cyber Security Certificate compare to other certifications in the field?
-The speaker suggests that the Google Cyber Security Certificate is not as valuable as other certifications from an employment standpoint. They mention Google's own Security Plus certification as a more worthwhile option.
What is the speaker's final verdict on the Google Cyber Security Certificate?
-The speaker concludes that the Google Cyber Security Certificate belongs in the trash, indicating strong disapproval due to the issues mentioned, such as lack of core knowledge teaching and overemphasis on Python.
Outlines
📚 Introduction to Google's Cyber Security Certificate
The paragraph discusses the Google Cyber Security Certificate, questioning the authenticity of claims made in sponsored videos. It highlights the lack of unbiased reviews and the author's intention to provide an honest perspective. The Google certificate is described as a new entry in the field, offering online, self-paced training with no prior experience required. It promises to prepare individuals for roles like security analyst and includes a job readiness aspect through Career Circle, despite the author's skepticism about this service's exclusivity.
🎓 In-Depth Analysis of the Certificate Program
This paragraph delves into the structure of the Google Cyber Security Certificate program, detailing its eight courses. It outlines the content covered in each course, from foundational cybersecurity knowledge to specialized topics like network security, Linux and SQL, and incident response. The author emphasizes the hands-on components, such as labs and interactive plugins, and the assessment methods, including graded quizzes and a final certificate requirement. The paragraph also mentions the author's completion of the program with perfect scores, lending credibility to their review.
🚫 Critical Evaluation and Conclusion
The final paragraph presents a critical evaluation of the Google Cyber Security Certificate. The author expresses strong dissatisfaction, suggesting that the program should be discarded. They criticize the lack of core knowledge teaching, the忽略 of the Windows operating system, and the overemphasis on Python. The author also notes that employers are not seeking this certificate and that Google itself recommends a different, more valuable certification. The paragraph concludes with a call to action for viewers to share their thoughts on why they are interested in cybersecurity.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡Google Cyber Security Certificate
💡Cybersecurity Analyst
💡Coursera
💡Linux
💡SQL
💡Incident Response
💡Python
💡Career Circle
💡Security Plus
💡CISSP Exam Domains
💡Job Interview Preparation
Highlights
Google's cybersecurity certificate is fairly new to the certification and training industry.
The certificate claims to prepare individuals for a career as a cybersecurity analyst.
Google's certificate promises to teach job-ready skills such as identifying risks, threats, and vulnerabilities.
No prior experience is needed to qualify for the certification, and it's provided entirely online.
The program includes eight different courses covering a range of cybersecurity topics.
The course offers exclusive access to Career Circle for job finding assistance.
The reviewer completed the entire program with a 100% score in each course.
The courses include videos, readings, discussion prompts, self-review activities, and labs.
Graded quizzes are required with a passing score of 80 or higher to obtain the certificate.
The certificate program is estimated to take about six months of study at a cost of $49 per month or $399 per year.
The first course, Foundations of Cyber Security, covers basic cybersecurity concepts and security ethics.
The course on network security lacks hands-on experience with tools and focuses mainly on Linux.
The Python course emphasizes the importance of Python in cybersecurity, potentially overstating its necessity.
The final course prepares learners for job interviews and escalation procedures in cybersecurity.
The reviewer concludes that the Google cybersecurity certificate is not recommended due to several shortcomings.
Transcripts
I'm sure you've seen the videos making
significant claims about the Google
cyber security certificate and how
amazing it is but are they really
telling the truth I have literally not
seen one video reviewing the Google
cyber security certificate that wasn't
sponsored by either Google or Coursera
and honestly it's very clear in those
videos that they have a ton of bias in
them forget that I'm gonna give you my
honest perspective on the certificate
and the only review video that isn't
sponsored and trust me they really tried
but I kept declining their offers so
it's pretty likely that if you have any
interest in cyber security that you've
heard about the Google cyber security
certificate it's fairly new to the
certification or training game in the
industry but of course it has the name
Google attached to it so people are
automatically going to give it some
credibility if we look at what they say
on the website it says it's going to
prepare you for a career as a cyber
security analyst with a professional
certificate from Google learn job ready
skills that are in demand like how to
identify common risks threats and
vulnerabilities as well as the
techniques to mitigate ate them you
don't need prior experience to qualify
for the certification and it's provided
entirely online with on-demand training
which means that you can go at your own
pace some of the jobs they say can
qualify for after you complete the
program or cyber security analyst
security analyst sock analyst
information security analyst I.T
security analyst and cyber defense
analyst additionally they talk about
when you complete the certificate you'll
get exclusive access to Career Circle to
help finding jobs but when I actually
Google this service it says they don't
charge anybody anyways this aspect is
outside of the scope of what we're going
to talk about in this video but I do
find that pretty interesting before we
dive deeper into this video I just want
to show you that I have actually gone
through this program and completed the
certificate if we scroll down here
you'll see my main certificate for the
entire program
we'll see the different courses and see
that I've completed every single one of
them with a hundred percent score the
reason why I show you that is because
some people are talking about the
program without ever having looked at it
deeper and the majority of the people
talking about it definitely didn't
complete the certificate that's not me
though because I did it all right now
that's out of the way let's talk more
about the actual training aspect for
starters there's eight different courses
that are included with the certificate
alright so we're on the certificate
website if we scroll down we'll see the
courses that are included with the
certificate so first of all it starts
out with foundations of cyber security
this talks about recognizing core skills
and knowledge needed to become a cyber
security analyst identify how security
attacks impact business operations
explain security ethics identify common
tools used by cyber security analysts
here you're going to learn to identify
the primary threats risks and
vulnerabilities to business operations
examine how organizations use security
Frameworks and controls to protect
business operations Define commonly used
security information and event
management or Sim tools and use a
Playbook to respond to threats risks and
vulnerabilities
course 3 is connect and protect networks
and network security you're going to
Define the types of networks and
components of networks illustrate how
data is sent and received over a network
understand how to secure a network
against intrusion tactics and describe
system hardening techniques
the next course is tools of the trade
Linux and SQL you're going to learn to
explain the relationship between
operating systems applications and
Hardware compare graphical user
interface or GUI to a command line
interface navigate and manage the file
system using Linux commands via the bash
shell and use SQL to retrieve
information from a database
next course is assets threats and
vulnerabilities you're going to learn to
classify assets analyze an attack
service to find risks and
vulnerabilities identify threats such as
social engineering malware and web-based
exploits and summarize the threat
modeling process
next one Sound the Alarm detection and
response you're going to identify the
steps to contain eradicate and recover
from incident learn to analyze packets
to interpret network communication
understand basic syntax components of
signatures and logs in nutrition
detection systems ids's and network
intrusion detection systems nids tools
and you're going to perform queries and
security information and event
management or Sim tools to investigate
an incident
the next course is automating cyber
security tasks with python
you're going to learn to explain the
Python programming language and how it's
used in cyber security you're going to
learn to create new user-defined python
functions you're going to learn to use
regular Expressions to extract
information from text and you're going
to practice debugging code and then the
final course is putting it to work
prepare for cyber security jobs here
you're going to determine how and when
to escalate a security incident you're
going to learn to engage with the cyber
security Community you're going to learn
about finding and applying to cyber
security jobs and you're going to
prepare for job interviews so you can
see that sounds like a pretty tall order
for a lot of these courses to accomplish
now let's talk about what each course
includes first of all it has videos led
by Google instructors to teach New
Concepts introduce the use of relevant
tools offer career support and provide
inspirational personal stories you're
going to get readings that build on the
topics discussed in the videos introduce
related Concepts share useful resources
and describe case studies there's
discussion prompts to explore course
topics for better understanding and
allow you to chat and exchange ideas
with other Learners in their discussion
forums you're going to get self-review
activities and labs to give you Hands-On
practice and applying the skills that
you're learning and allow you to assess
your own work by comparing it to a
completed example now you can
theoretically say that you did these and
just keep moving they don't actually
validate it there's interactive plugins
these encourage you to practice specific
tasks and help you to integrate
knowledge that you've gained in the
course you get in video quizzes to help
you check your comprehension as you
progress through each video you get
practice quizzes that allow you to check
your understanding of key Concepts and
provide valuable feedback and to get
graded quizzes that demonstrate your
understanding of the main concepts of a
course you have to score 80 or higher on
each graded quiz to obtain the
certificate and you can take a graded
quiz multiple times really as many as
you want to get a passing score they
don't limit the overall amount of times
but they do require that you only take
it a maximum of three times within 24
hours also the quizzes aren't proctored
so you can just take them whenever you
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right so let's talk about what it takes
to actually get the certificate first of
all you have to take all eight courses
you have to pay the course certificate
fee so Coursera costs 49 per month or
399 dollars per year they estimate that
the certificate is going to take you
about six months if you study seven
hours per day so that's roughly about
294 dollars if you pay monthly now keep
in mind that when I completed everything
in about four days it actually just
awarded me the certificate without
forcing me to pay so I'm not really sure
if that's an actual requirement you also
have to complete all these assignments
there's no penalty for late assignments
so if you skipped over something then
you came back and then you did it again
no big deal also have to pass all the
graded quizzes in all eight courses with
a score of 80 or better all right so now
I want to shift gears and talk about
each one of the courses in this
certificate course one is foundations of
cyber security Now typically any
certificate certified education or
training course starts out with an
introductory section that way you don't
get overwhelmed right out of the gate
this is no different I actually don't
mind starting with this basic
information but the information that was
included in this section is probably way
more basic than you need to actually get
started another problem I have with this
section is for an introduction course I
expect there to be a discussion about
core or foundational information like
how networks operate none of that kind
of information was discussed in this
section and that's a huge Miss in my
eyes this is a typical student is going
to have very little knowledge when they
first start out course two is play it
safe manage security risks something
that you'll see in many of the courses
and what's covered in this program uses
something called the cissp exam domains
to drive the discussion I'm not saying
that the domains aren't accurate in the
cissp but they basically start drifting
your attention to another certification
that's much higher level right away in
the course you'll learn more about
threats risks and vulnerabilities and
that's always a good discussion this
course also introduces security
Frameworks like the nist RMF or or risk
management framework and a wasp finally
things wrap up talking about the
incident response process just like with
the first course everything is
conceptual and you still don't get
exposure to the foundational information
that I would expect course 3 is connect
and protect networks and network
security Now this section starts going
into some of the TCP knowledge that you
need and more lab exercises are required
the labs are all document based like
reading a raw Network log but there's no
hands-on experience with tools course 4
is tools of the trade Linux and SQL up
to this point there are definitely
issues with the program and it really
doesn't get any better one of the major
problems that I saw with this course is
there's a huge focus on the Linux
operating system and literally a Sensor
2 talking about windows are you kidding
me Windows is one of the most widely
adopted operating systems of
organizations that you're going to have
to protect and they barely even mention
it in passing it's literally like they
tried to shove SQL into this section to
disguise the fact that they don't talk
about windows at all it must be because
Google hates Microsoft or something but
seriously what a joke at least they give
you a few Hands-On examples with Linux
they also mentioned Kali Linux here but
they don't show you anything about it so
it's just another word to you course 5's
assets threats and vulnerabilities this
course spends a lot of time talking
about asset classification roles
regarding data o wasp and the pasta
threat model framework I wouldn't really
expect this section to be crazy in depth
for a beginner certificate so I have no
issue really either way course six is
Sound the Alarm detection and response
this course is all about incident
response luckily there are some Hands-On
Labs where you can use tools like
Wireshark Splunk and a few others the
labs themselves are very beginner level
but this is one of the better courses of
this program because you actually get
exposure to the tools course 7 is
automated cyber security tasks with
python overall in my eyes this is the
best course from this program you'll
learn the basics of python including
writing basic Python scripts and how to
debug them my major concern with python
throughout this course is that Google
has embedded a strong impression that
python is a skill that you won't be
successful unless you have they really
try to convince you of this and that's
dangerous for people that are new to the
industry because frankly that's not true
additionally they really overload this
section which further emphasizes the
idea that python is mandatory in cyber
security what are you doing Google
seriously course 8 is put it to work
prepare for cyber security jobs
something that they do in this course
that's not always talked about or
covered is escalations I think that's
actually an important discussion to have
with newer or more Junior people so I
appreciate that they also talk about the
star method for interview questions and
how to develop a resume although I have
very strong opinions on topics like
these I think it's a positive thing to
at least include content on them in
general what's covered is fairly basic
in this course question of the day why
do you want to work in cyber security
let me know down in the comment section
below all right the moment you've all
been waiting for what's my opinion on
the Google cyber security certificate
honestly it belongs in the trash
although there's some things that I can
appreciate in this course it's really
one of those things that they would have
to recreate to even get close to getting
my seal of approval they don't do a good
job of teaching in the core knowledge
that you need they completely ignore the
Windows operating system system they
over emphasize the need for python to be
successful and other issues that at this
point aren't worth talking about because
of those glaring issues additionally
employers aren't asking for the
certificate and Google themselves even
tries to push you towards the security
plus next which is a way more valuable
certification from an employment
standpoint I just don't know why vendors
keep trying to push cyber security
certifications as the first step when it
relies heavily on knowing the
foundational information first it makes
no sense if you use logic as always make
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