Coursera vs. Infosec Skills

Coursera

Coursera

88 Reviews and Ratings

Infosec Skills

Infosec Skills

91 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Coursera	Score 8.9 out of 10	N/A	Coursera is an online catalog of learning content, available to businesses to help them to strengthen critical skills, Develop, retain, and advance critical talent, or use role-based assessments to identify skills gaps and advancement opportunities.	$399 per year per user (for less than 125 employees)
Infosec Skills	Score 9.9 out of 10	N/A	Infosec Skills aims to help users upskill and get certified with a hands-on cybersecurity training platform. Users can train on their own schedule with access to 100s of hands-on cybersecurity courses and cyber ranges — or upgrade to a boot camp for live, instructor-led training in order to get certified on the first attempt.	N/A

Pricing

Coursera

Infosec Skills

Editions & Modules

Coursera for Teams: $399
per year per user (for less than 125 employees)
Coursera for Business: Contact Sales

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Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Coursera	Infosec Skills
Free Trial
Yes	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
	Coursera	Infosec Skills
Considered Both Products	Coursera Verified User Anonymous Chose Coursera Many other LMS systems, including Blackboard, and Canvas, have been examined or utilized by us in the past. Each has advantages and disadvantages, but I believe Coursera is an attractive option for any company because of its well-known brand and global presence of high-level … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Coursera We've looked at or used many different LMS platforms including Blackboard, Learnshare, Canvas, Cornerstone, SABA, and many others. Each has its pros & cons but I feel Coursera given its brand recognition and built-in following it's a great value for any organization. I would … Incentivized Helpful? PM Piyush Mittal Consultant Chose Coursera Udemy for Business Incentivized Helpful? Oleksandr Torlo Chief Technology Officer Chose Coursera Coursera certainly has the best content for courses of interest to our organization. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Coursera I like Coursera because it has lots of high quality contents I can use. I learn a lot from the professors from the top universities in the world. Coursera also has generous policy of financial aids. I am thankful for that policy that makes my learning on Coursera more reachable. Incentivized Helpful? Rei Shinozuka, CFA®, FRM® Director Asset Liability Modeling & Strategy, Office of CFO Chose Coursera Coursera has been the only tool of its kind I've used intensively. I've seen video lectures from other learning providers and while they can be effective, what makes Coursera special to me is its interactivity and creative ways to allow the student to solve problems and gain … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Coursera Edx, safari, Lidia, etc Incentivized Helpful? Alejandro Matheu, MD, MBA Chairman of the School Organizational Team at Paradise Professional Delelopment School and Digital Marketing Manager at Hospital Herrera Llerandi Chose Coursera Coursera has a wider variety of courses and more institutions as partners. The certifications Coursera gives, have more value than other brands. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Coursera I like Coursera much better than Udemy. The user interface of Coursera is much better. I also feel the content of Coursera is little bit better than udemy. Incentivized Helpful? Donovon Carter DevOps Engineer Chose Coursera I think Coursera has the best overall interface. I think you will find that different platforms go in different directions, and have different specialities. For the most part the differences are more in the types of courses they offer than one being particularly better than the … Incentivized Helpful? Andrew Starodubtsev Freelance Web Developer Chose Coursera Coursera has wide range of disciplines and some subjects other MOOC platforms do not have. I am using Coursera along with other online educational platforms and courses to arrange courses on a complex schedule. Coursera has a free option (free listener) where students are able … Incentivized Helpful? Ilia Tarasov Architectural Consultant Chose Coursera There is a Mentor Course, for those chosen that have been good at some courses. You can find almost everything (talking about courses), of lots of topics and categories. It's simply amazing. You can learn a lot, even if you don't pay for the certificate. Incentivized Helpful? Nic Klopper Director Chose Coursera Obviously, Coursera lacks some of the formal credentials that a college or university degree offers. It also has limitations when it comes to a broad scope curated academic course that a university degree offers. However, it does afford users who couldn't afford a full-on … Incentivized Helpful?	Infosec Skills KL Kevin Lomax Director Technical Services Chose Infosec Skills Infosec Skills is a much better product for the money. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Infosec Skills Pluralsight offers more variety for courses and materials. However the quality of courses varies drastically. Making it difficult to RIO against unless you know a specific instructor or need very specific training on something that only exists there on that platform, or isn't … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Infosec Skills Infosec IQ is relevant to our organisational requirements and is used for employee awareness and phishing campaigns and is monitored by IT and security. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Infosec Skills Equal or better Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Infosec Skills Infosec skills is a lot better in terms of variety of learning as well as the labs are smoother and faster on infosec skills. Infosec skills crashes a lesser than the alternatives Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Infosec Skills Infosec is the best fit for me. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Infosec Skills Infosec has been our go to training company. Incentivized Helpful? Brian Shetter Security Engineer / Analyst Chose Infosec Skills I used Pluralsight in the past and it is great for most things but lacks in the number of cyber security courses that Infosec Skills has. Incentivized Helpful? John Litzenberg Senior Programmer Analyst/HIPAA Security Officer Chose Infosec Skills I use a variety of sources for training, some because they're available at low cost through my employer, others because they offer courses in a specific niche. I like Infosec for the range of subjects and learning paths that are applicable to my current objectives. The courses … Incentivized Helpful? Clayton Wallace Sr. Solutions Architect Chose Infosec Skills Similar in style Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Infosec Skills Infosec [Skills] provides a very good ROI for what I paid for [with] the training. There were a lot of similarities in terms of what each company had to offer and there were more than a few areas of overlap. I, ultimately, went with Infosec [Skills] due to word of mouth. I … Incentivized Helpful? Piyush Mittal Senior Consultant Chose Infosec Skills I am in cyber security and this domain required me to do some internationally recognized certifications and infosec skills had helped in clearing these certifications. Their training instructors was awesome and practice questions quality was great. With the help of infosec … Incentivized Helpful? Karina Astudillo CEO (Chief Executive Officer) Chose Infosec Skills CodeRed does not have cyber-ranges. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Infosec Skills I selected Infosec Skills because they are commonplace in the industry. They offer a good amount of courses, material for the cost, and courses using Infosec [Skills] offer the ability to get certified through them. I think that, overall, Infosec [Skills] does offer an … Incentivized Helpful? CY Caleb Yankus CTO (Chief Technical Officer) Chose Infosec Skills Infosec Skills was better organized and more focused on what we wanted to train on. Udemy is still part of our educational environment. Incentivized Helpful? BL Brian Lamoureux IDM Supervisor, Cyber Chose Infosec Skills I enjoy Infosec Skills more because it is more targeted at my interests. Incentivized Helpful? Joe White Senior Pen Tester Chose Infosec Skills InfoSec Skills is practical and direct and can be used to gain an industry-rated and recognized certification that can be used to elevate one's professional standing. There are other training platforms, but none that I have found to be directly associated with a … Incentivized Helpful? Rachelle Heller Professor of Computer Science, Associate Provost, Academic Affairs Mount Vernon Campus Chose Infosec Skills We have only used Infosec Skills. We have nothing to compare. Incentivized Helpful? PP Peter Pandula Senior Advisor Chose Infosec Skills The concentration of Infosec Skills is on every Cyber Security domain. The Infosec Skills is one-stop solution for organizational users. The licenses are transferable within the organizational users. Incentivized Helpful? DH Dana Hancock IT Supervisor Chose Infosec Skills Stormwinds Studios/TOIT training Infosec Skills is generally more effective with instructor interaction, but the others offer a significant amount of training (live or recorded) for a much lower overall cost. Incentivized Helpful? HM Henry Miller Electrical Services/SCADA Supervisor Chose Infosec Skills We chose Infosec due to their reputation and a recommendation from the IT manager. We did not really evaluate other providers. Incentivized Helpful? Francisco Manuel Maya Molina TI Consultor Chose Infosec Skills [...] I subscribed to Infosec Skills to learn and research more about data recovery because I know Infosec Skills has [...] training [specifically] about that subject. But after I subscribe[d], I saw very little and basic information about this topic. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Infosec Skills Gaining my CISSP through Infosec Skills has really helped advance my career. Incentivized Helpful? JD Jeremy Davis Network Engineer Chose Infosec Skills I’ve used other training, but it didn’t measure up to the quality of product that Infosec Skills can produce. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Infosec Skills More or less the same as others I have used. Minus Infosec Skills does not have apps or smart tv/casting ability. Udemy PRO is also a better value $$$ for content. O'Reilly costs more but includes digital books for the most respected industry books. Infosec Skills has better … Incentivized Helpful?

Features

Coursera

Infosec Skills

Learning Management

Comparison of Learning Management features of Product A and Product B
	Coursera 8.8 Ratings 3% above category average	Infosec Skills 8.4 Ratings 1% below category average
Course authoring	8.90 Ratings	8.00 Ratings
Course catalog or library	9.10 Ratings	9.30 Ratings
Player/Portal	8.90 Ratings	8.30 Ratings
Learning content	9.50 Ratings	9.30 Ratings
Progress tracking & certifications	9.20 Ratings	9.40 Ratings
Learning reporting & analytics	8.00 Ratings	9.10 Ratings
Social learning	8.90 Ratings	7.50 Ratings
Gamification	00 Ratings	6.40 Ratings

eLearning Content

Comparison of eLearning Content features of Product A and Product B
	Coursera - Ratings	Infosec Skills 9.0 Ratings 6% above category average
Multi-Lingual Support	00 Ratings	9.90 Ratings
Structured Learning	00 Ratings	9.10 Ratings
Course Searches	00 Ratings	9.10 Ratings
Historical Metrics	00 Ratings	8.10 Ratings
Cloud-Based Content	00 Ratings	8.80 Ratings
Automation & Integration	00 Ratings	9.30 Ratings

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User Ratings
	Coursera	Infosec Skills
Likelihood to Recommend	8.5 (0 ratings)	9.9 (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	10.0 (0 ratings)	10.0 (0 ratings)
Usability	10.0 (0 ratings)	9.9 (0 ratings)
Availability	- (0 ratings)	9.1 (0 ratings)
Performance	- (0 ratings)	9.1 (0 ratings)
Support Rating	9.0 (0 ratings)	9.1 (0 ratings)
Online Training	- (0 ratings)	9.1 (0 ratings)
Implementation Rating	10.0 (0 ratings)	9.1 (0 ratings)
Configurability	- (0 ratings)	9.1 (0 ratings)
Ease of integration	- (0 ratings)	9.1 (0 ratings)
Product Scalability	- (0 ratings)	9.1 (0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale	- (0 ratings)	9.1 (0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale	- (0 ratings)	9.1 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Coursera	Infosec Skills
Likelihood to Recommend	It's absolutely ideal for programming. Today, most programming environments are available for free and enthusiasts can tinker with programming on their own. But Coursera structures that process and presents iteratively more complex assignments to the student. I found it useful for non-programming. I took a refresher Calculus course and the user was able to enter solutions symbolically which I found impressive. Incentivized Rei Shinozuka, CFA®, FRM® Director Asset Liability Modeling & Strategy, Office of CFO Read full review	The onboarding process has been quite productive throughout with the best team. The customer support team is able and ever on alert when requested to assist. It has simple user interface which is not the case with other similar platforms. The training modules are easy to understand and put into practice. It meets the set threshold and complies with company principals. Incentivized Susan Davone Administrative Clerk Read full review
Pros	Coursera's courses are extremely good. They are well designed and being a full time employee I really appreciate the fact of how well they are designed. They have made sure that everybody gets enough time to complete it. There is an active community which is very helpful. No matter how good a teaching material is, you might always need extra help. This community can answer your question. And also this becomes extremely relevant if you are taking programming courses There are assignments to test your skills. This is a great way to evaluate yourself. At this point if you feel like you haven't understood something, you can always go back and refer the videos. Most of these assignments can be applied to real world problems as well which is great Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	A combination of presentation, explanation, and reading materials to suit all learning types. An easy-to-use portal that tracks progress and allows you to go back and review. A focus on both the certification itself as well as the background information. In contrast to just "practice tests." Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	If you leave the projects for the weekends, your Sunday nights could be a drag. But I list this as a benefit also, it enforces discipline on the learning process. I hope Coursera continues to offer no-cost and low-cost learning opportunities. I honestly can't think of any serious deficiency in the product. I am a huge fan. Incentivized Rei Shinozuka, CFA®, FRM® Director Asset Liability Modeling & Strategy, Office of CFO Read full review	Questions! The Database/site was updated, and I was no longer able to access the questions and choose specific topics to study from There were two CISSP courses to watch videos, I would remove the oldest Put an emphasis that users have a years membership after completing a boot camp Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	It’s marvelous. Incentivized Alejandro Matheu, MD, MBA, MSc in Digital Marketing Chairman of the School Organizational Team at Paradise Professional Delelopment School and Digital Marketing Manager at Hospital Herrera Llerandi Read full review	We are very satisfied with the service and the offer. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Usability	User-friendly and developer-friendly Web UI. Incentivized Andrew Starodubtsev Freelance Web Developer Read full review	Because the skills learned from the course have proven to be beneficial in the day-to-day tasks that I typically perform. They are either directly related to or at the very least a complementary skill set that allows me to perform my duties overall in a more beneficial way to the people that I support. Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Support Rating	I’ve used it a couple of times and... that did great. They take their time, but in the end they solve your issues. Incentivized Alejandro Matheu, MD, MBA, MSc in Digital Marketing Chairman of the School Organizational Team at Paradise Professional Delelopment School and Digital Marketing Manager at Hospital Herrera Llerandi Read full review	I got everything I needed. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Online Training	No answers on this topic	It was available anytime Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Implementation Rating	Coursera is familiar, intuitive, compatible and easy to use and implement. Incentivized Andrew Starodubtsev Freelance Web Developer Read full review	Everything goes smoothly Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Alternatives Considered	We've looked at or used many different LMS platforms including Blackboard, Learnshare, Canvas, Cornerstone, SABA, and many others. Each has its pros & cons but I feel Coursera given its brand recognition and built-in following it's a great value for any organization. I would not want to build out an entire MBA or other MASTERS level online program on it but it is a great way to allow potential students to experience your institutions content for a low price (of free). Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	I use a variety of sources for training, some because they're available at low cost through my employer, others because they offer courses in a specific niche. I like Infosec for the range of subjects and learning paths that are applicable to my current objectives. The courses are well-made and provide useful and purposeful information. John Litzenberg Senior Programmer Analyst/HIPAA Security Officer Read full review
Return on Investment	The greatest benefit of Coursera is access to quality courses on various subjects that you can either browse or dive in deeply. Customizable, flexible and accessible. Helps our department to recommend trainees courses on this website and gain important knowledge. Also, the courses are provided by big-name universities which helps students in their careers Developing and exploring professional skills. Incentivized Ilia Tarasov Architectural Consultant Read full review	After my courses, I was able to obtain my CCNA (passed [on] first attempt) and my CCNP (passed [on] second attempt). This is far better than the average passing rate. Professionally, I [got] a new job as a network engineer and then promoted to a Network Engineer II after completing my CCNP. I have seen a 40% salary increase over the last three years. Incentivized BB Brandon Berry Network Engineer II Read full review
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