If you're looking for an easy A for a CS elective, this is it. The professor is very nice and chill and does a great job of covering the material. The workload is also very manageable, especially for a CS class. I highly recommend taking Cyber with Angela Orebaugh. #tCFspring2022

Very chill course, a good survey of cybersecurity as a career and technical field. She has a good amount of industry experience and it shows: a lot of the material was about cybersecurity administration and roles. All of the jargon and theory can get a little boring. However, we also got our hands dirty with actual penetration tools in a Linux virtual machine which was the highlight of the class. The labs are almost too easy, usually just copy-pasting the commands and copy-pasting the outputs. If you take the time to understand everything, though, you can still learn a lot.
If you really wanted to, you could skip the readings and lectures and still get a good grade. The quizzes were the kind that come straight from the slides, and for open note that definitely helps.
Overall, interesting and chill, definitely worth your time. But if you're expecting a a lot of technical depth or a deep dive into how cybersecurity tools work under the hood, this won't be the course for you.
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Angela's amazing!! It's so interesting, she really makes the lectures engaging. And dumbs it down and explains it in a way that sticks in your head. It's soo easy too. She even gave hints to everyone on the final exam, and even gave me extra hints on Piazza when I couldn't figure out a question lol take it with her!! Highly recommend it.

Also, don't bother with the readings. They're boring. You can just Cntl+F the answers on the quizzes

Angela's amazing!! It's so interesting, she really makes the lectures engaging. And dumbs it down and explains it in a way that sticks in your head. It's soo easy too. She even gave hints to everyone on the final exam, and even gave me extra hints on Piazza when I couldn't figure out a question lol take it with her!! Highly recommend it.

Also, don't bother with the readings. They're boring. You can just Cntl+F the answers on the quizzes

Easy A course. She taught very interesting material without making the course any difficult. The readings are not super important, the labs are essentially guided, quizzes are open note and can easily be handled by looking at her lecture slides. The only thing I did not like about her course is how shallow it is. She focuses more on information security rather than the technical aspect such as company policies and etc, so some chapters feel like a business course than CS course. It would be much more enjoyable if she did more in-depth technical stuff.

Professor Orebaugh teaches this class very differently from other professors. Her primary focus is on teaching important industry-related concepts as opposed to hands-on programming assignments. The homework assignments typically consist of following along with a step-by-step guide for using different cybersecurity tools like Wireshark. Because of this, the class is incredibly easy, to be frank, to the point that it barely registered as important on most weeks. Professor Orebaugh is wonderfully energetic and passionate, but the class leaves a lot to be desired in terms of long term useful content if you are more interested in cybersecurity research. The final exam is a fun CTF that is the most challenging part of the class, but is still fairly simple to figure out given enough time (it's open internet)

this class focused more on information security and the industry, not so much with technical concepts etc. It was enjoyable and fairly easy, but if you're looking for something more technical that isn't how Orebaugh teaches it