INE Reviews

Great platform to learn and level up your knowledge. It helped me get my first cybersecurity certificate and the learning path is well planned and made for beginner.

1. Great labs
2. Well explained pdfs followed by in depth videos.
3. Challenges after every labs helps to level up my knowledge

1. VPN connection breaks time and again
2. Websites used for labs sometimes overlaps with spammy websites so when vpn connection breaks, different spammy websites opens.

As long as you can skip Robert’s courses and follow the ones of Keith you can get through. Overall quality is great although some courses require an update since they are mostly taken around 6 years ago and that shows in the material.

The courses by Keith Bogart are a blast. He is enthusiastic and knows everything about what he is teaching. Easy to listen to because he talking fluent and clear.

Courses by Robert Shimonski, I’m sorry to name him personally but in this case it's really necessary. His knowledge is outstanding but he stammers a lot, talks monotonous and is not enthusiastic. That makes him hard to follow and makes his courses boring.

Great experience so far with INE and their training. Looking forward to obtaining my eJPT certification soon.

1. The labs are amazing and really help you drill home concepts.
2. Well explained and concise PowerPoints and videos.
3. Site layout is easy to understand and makes learning a breeze.

1. Sometimes labs inside courses require a more in-depth understanding of the topic than taught in the course. (maybe it's good).

The amount of content you get for this price is definitely worth it.
Also the content and the instructors are very good.

- Easy to use.
- A lot of content.
- Great instructors.
- Practical and relevant materials.
- Price is worth it.

The subscription to their premium account is annual.

It was 10/10 tbh, learned almost everything from them, from a junior pentester to a professional and still learning from them on different courses and the content on every course is neat and straight forward.

Everything! The courses, the labs and all the content!
They teach you from the basics and help you to sharpen your skills in the labs.

Well, in some labs the vpn was disconnecting thats all.

I started my professional pentesting journey through INE's PTS (penetration testing student pathway ) which is comes free with starter pass. Fell in love with the content and practical labs that gave me so hands on knowledge about pentesting, passed my eJPT cert and ended up buying the premium subscription without a second thought for eCPPT and other stuff

No time bound on completing a course learn whenever you want and can.
Labs are awesome.
I always struggled and had to put so much time in getting the right resource to study from. You don't have to waste your time and get to study straight away.

Few course material suggest softwares which are outdated but overall Ine keeps updating new stuff. So you are gonna learn in anyway.

An excellent experience, the labs and manuals are very good, clear and conscientious. I like that I can enter from any device and also that the last state is saved.

I think it is the best platform for quality / price. His certifications and training are highly recognized and in demand. You really learn a lot.

Maybe its price is high if you only want a specific training.

Great experience so far with INE and their training. Looking forward to obtaining my eJPT certification soon.

1. The labs are amazing and really help you drill home concepts.
2. Well explained and concise PowerPoints and videos.
3. Site layout is easy to understand and makes learning a breeze.

The only con that I can think of is perhaps the $750/yr pricing is a bit steep for some people. However, there is still quite a lot of content you can access for free through their Starter Pass.

The best service if you wanna gain knowledge and pass any Cisco exam for 100%. All is you need just listen carefully to their lessons.

They are explaining everything deep technically. Their slogan that says experts who making you an expert is true.

I don't see any cons. Just a think about videos, they where can be downloaded but not anymore and that is related with pirates.

- I love the platform so much, and I would not hesitate or think for a second, to renew my subscription in the coming years.

- Labs mimic real-world environments.
- Exams mimic real-world environments, and the exams are cheap as well.
- For 750$ a year, one can get hold of so many courses from INE/e-learn which literally is being sold at undervalue.

- The only thing is as of now is that their Certifications are not that sought for in the Job Community, but that is changing, companies are starting to acknowledge e-Learn Cert's value.

The best online learning platform for networking, cloud architecture and devops. Courses are suitable for beginners and experts alike.

- Focuses on conceptual understanding of the networking.
- Covers wide range of networking topics.
- In depth implementation guide to configure Cisco devices.

- Need to cover other vendor products and its configuration.
- Need to include courses on Golang.

Good for learning new topics and passing cert exams. Overpriced if you want hands on experience. More lans needed for the price.

The content of the videos is clear and most of the instructors are great with explanations. Good variety of material as well.

Not nearly as many hands on labs as one would like. Itpro.tv or Tryhackme have much better lab platforms

I use INE courses everyday, I find it very useful and an excellent training platform. Its also very informative, I would highly recommend this to anyone in cyber security field or wanted to get in.

Lots and lots of labs for hands on learning.
Excellent tutorial videos, resources and labs.
Easy to navigate.
50% discount on any elearn security exam vouchers when buying annual subscription.

A bit more expensive than other online course providers, but quality is superior.

Overall I am happy the content is organized well and presented gives good approach to study from beginning.

The content provided by them is well organized and presented. I joined recently and I am happy with the manner the I am learning.

I believe INE needs to bring more content on topics like cybersecurity(blue team) ,f5, different vendor firewalls.

I’m enjoying the process so far, but I believe there's still so much more than needs to be improved upon.

Topic coverage.
Responsiveness in design.
Supportive community.
Value for money.
Willingness to adapt.
Sleek website UI.

Some courses are a few years old.
Confusing learning paths as you have to keep track of courses you’ve yet to finish.
SMS/email-only MFA.
OpenVPN config files for labs get censored in some countries, deeming access to labs and exams nearly impossible.

Pretty good, wish monthly payment is an option. Don't procrastinate or you waste huge $$$.

My suggestion however, IF you decide to go to the CCNA path like me, is to spend money on official sources, when there are difficult concepts you watch videos that are relevant to the difficult concepts. I find reading is much faster than watching videos and doing quizzes.

Disclaimer: I am a "novice" by skill. I have only doing the CCNA learning path & the Penetration Testing Student & I receive 10 dollar discount if I write a review here.

Tip: You can easily Google the ebooks cited in the reference page. They used to have a direct download button but they removed it for some reason.

Instructor fast reply (2 days) & detailed
PTS trailer
Content explained in detail
Quizzes
DRM not distractive (They let you download slides but not quizzes and videos.) [Amazon Ebook is the definition of awful.]]
HACKER!!

1. The seminars felt like it's designed for experts.
2. Cyber security pass is the most expensive**
3. Courses NOT dumbed down or not the easiest way. Packet tracer > GNS3 in difficulty so I took an external packet tracer course offered by CISCO.
4. You will feel left out as must specializations are not designed for novices.
5. Expect to search external content (Packet Tracer tutorial CISCO etc.) to supplement your CISCO training.

**Although price in line with CBT Nuggets, you get more content than CBT Nuggets, and CBT Nuggets doesn't cover development. However, as a beginner you are limited by the things you can study.

The short version is that you have to search external websites for worksheets because some CCNA worksheets requires rack rentals.

Suggestion for improvements: Exercises and fake final exams. (I have to shop external CCNA sources.)
Something like downloadable worksheets for every video instead of going to the Workbook User Interface.

Totally satisfied. I'm going to take the ejpt in a couple weeks max. The learning path is wide enough covering many of the basics tools and concepts without being overwhelming. It's perfect for all those people like me (college student) that lack the experience of some x years in IT.

[+] Easy to use platform
[+] Well structured courses
[+] Super professional materials
[+] Labs training
[+] Affordable prices

[-] You're not allowed to download the materials at the moment.

Overall i think INE and eLearnSecurity is doing a great job in providing a steady and prone to success path for someone to join the cybersecurity industry. I am really happy that i have discovered their services because now i really think that my study and certification path is way more clear than before. As i stated in the "Cons" section there are some aspects that could be improved but i want to complete my review by saying that i'm really looking forward to take the eCPPTv2 exam and PASS! !

I like the training material in both eJPT and eCPPTv2 courses(i have completed eJPT and took the certificate and i am currently studying for the eCPPTv2). I like the hands on experience and the fact that there are different labs for each subject presented. Furthermore i like the fact that the labs are going even deeper than the actual presented slides and let you explore and discover things on your own(like tools that are not presented in the slides that you actually have to search, understand and use on your own in order to create your own cheat sheets for later use!)
Lastly i believe that the fact that i can study more than one course if i subscribe is a KILL DEAL. Some might say that the premium subscription(that i have) is expensive and they may be right in some cases but if someone wants to truly learn he gets a huge amount of information and courses for a really cheap prize.

There are some things that could be better though (since nothing is perfect in my mind and there is always room for improvement). These things are
1) Some misspelled sentences or words in the slides(i have found some in both eJPT and eCPPT slides) need to be replaced.

2) Some labs are not working as expected. I get that this isn't the case for all students since not all students encounter the same errors but it would be great if all students were at least sure that if you get the right methodology done you could actually proceed and finish-exploit the lab without stupid bugs getting in your way. A recent problem i have encountered is in the ICMP redirect lab. I wasn't able to sniff on HTTP requests to actually complete the lab even though all my methodology was correct. I came in touch with other students too, to review my methodology and we find out that i was doing exactly what it need to be done but i wasn't getting the same results as the other students. Some students even told me that they had the same problem on this lab.

3) In the eCPPTv2 material there is room for improvement in some labs like adding a reporting section in the course and removing some redundant ones like the Cain and Abel lab (I think that in 2021) this is a very unrealistic tool since no one will work with WindowsXP or Win7 to actually perform a penetration test and this tool does not work in newer windows versions since its developers aren't even supporting it anymore.

Love it 10/10. I love the simplicity of the entire platform. It does not confuse any new users at all.

The learning modules are very simplified meaning that a grade 5 student can understand it. Not complex.

I don’t think I have a con to put in for this.

This is the best investment I have made. Using INE helped me pass my certifications. I am I am mostly using INE products to increase my knowledge and Thank God, this led to a promotion. I will stay a lifetime member.
You cannot go wrong with INE.

- INE experts make the most difficult subjects look easy.
- Not only for cert prep but also for your personal training.
- Website is easy to navigate.

Videos will not play where you left off. I have to write down in my notebook where I left off.