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12 Best Vulnerabilities Courses for Beginners

We compared 12 Vulnerabilities courses currently listed on edX, Coursera and Udemy, priced from $19.99 to $249.00. 3 come from a named university or institution, including Royal Holloway, University of London & University of London, Minnesota State University, Mankato and Graz University of Technology. They are ordered by our CourseAsk score, which is built from how thoroughly each course describes what it teaches, whether it comes from a named institution, and how it compares on price — not from star ratings, which our course data does not include.

Courses compared
12
Price range
$19.99 – $249.00
Providers
edX, Coursera, Udemy
Last updated
18 Sep 2026
How these 12 courses were chosen

Every course below is a real, currently listed course from edX, Coursera, Udemy, matched to "vulnerabilities" by our catalog and ordered by our CourseAsk score. Courses whose own title names the topic rank above those only tagged with it.

The grade on each entry scores how much the provider publishes about the course before you pay — the length and detail of the description, whether it lists learning outcomes and objectives — and whether a named university or institution stands behind it. A is fully documented and institution-backed; E is little more than a title and a price. Courses with almost nothing published are left ungraded rather than marked down, because an unknown course and a poor one are not the same thing.

There are no star ratings on this page — the course feeds we license do not include them, and we would rather leave a column out than fill it with a number we cannot stand behind. What we do have is price: these range from $19.99 to $249.00, as listed by the provider when we last updated the page.

  1. 1
    edX MOOC / Non-credit Grade C

    Introduction to LLM Vulnerabilities

    Offered by Pragmatic AI Labs

    Discover the critical importance of security in large language models (LLMs). Gain essential skills in identifying and mitigating risks, including model theft, prompt injection, and sensitive information disclosure. Ensu...

    $249.00
    listed price
  2. 2
    Coursera MOOC / Non-credit Grade A University-backed

    Introduction to Computer Security

    Offered by Royal Holloway, University of London & University of London

    The purpose of this short four-week course is to introduce the topic of computer system security. We initially look at a short basic introduction to computer system core components and functions and then extend this to c...

    $49.00
    listed price
  3. 3
    Coursera MOOC / Non-credit Grade A University-backed

    Introduction to Cyber Threats and Digital Hygiene Risk

    Offered by Minnesota State University, Mankato

    This course is designed for professionals without a technical background who manage people, data, or business operations to understand the critical aspects of cybersecurity. Learners will learn to explain and apply the C...

    $49.00
    listed price
  4. 4
    Coursera MOOC / Non-credit Grade B

    Fundamentals of Network Security and Cryptography

    Offered by Packt

    Updated in May 2025. This course now features Coursera Coach! A smarter way to learn with interactive, real-time conversations that help you test your knowledge, challenge assumptions, and deepen your understanding as yo...

    $49.00
    listed price
  5. 5
    edX MOOC / Non-credit Grade B University-backed

    Introduction to Software Side Channels and Mitigations

    Offered by Graz University of Technology

    Side channels exist in the real world, but they also exist in computers and can be exploited directly from software. This is a substantial computer security problem today, that we need to learn about to be able to stop a...

    $129.00
    listed price
  6. 6
    Udemy Certificate Grade B Lowest price here

    Fundamentals of Ethical Hacking Tools with ChatGPT & Python

    This course aims to teach participants how to develop ethical hacking tools using ChatGPT and Python programming language and perform security testing.Starting from the beginner level and progressing to advanced concepts...

    $19.99
    listed price
  7. 7
    Udemy MOOC / Non-credit Grade B

    Cisco Cybersecurity Fundamentals (200-201 CCNACBR) v1.2

    Cisco Cybersecurity Fundamentals (200-201 CCNACBR) v1.2 – Full Practice Exams (by RouteDigest)This course from RouteDigest includes a full set of practice exams to help you prepare for Cisco Cybersecurity Fundamentals v1...

    $19.99
    listed price
  8. 8
    Udemy Certificate Grade B

    Ethical Hacking 2021: Beginners to Advanced level

    Ethical Hacking: Beginners to Advanced level.Latest Kali Linux 2020: Hack into systems like a black hat hacker using the best hacking tools.This course is going to highly practical.What we cover in this course:Physical H...

    $24.99
    listed price
  9. 9
    Udemy Certificate Grade B

    Learn Cybersecurity From Scratch

    Zaid and Maitham teamed up to bring you the best cybersecurity course out there! Combining Zaid's experience in ethical hacking and teaching over 1 million students world wide with Maitham's focused cybersecurity experti...

    $99.99
    listed price
  10. 10
    Coursera MOOC / Non-credit Grade C

    Practical Cybersecurity Fundamentals: Unit 3

    Offered by Pearson

    This course covers foundational security principles and progresses through the intricacies of passive and active reconnaissance using cutting-edge tools such as Nmap and Shodan. You'll gain hands-on experience in exploit...

    $49.00
    listed price
  11. 11
    Udemy Certificate Grade C

    TryHackMe:Cyber Security Fundamentals

    موقع Try Hack Me: بوابة عالم القرصنة الأخلاقيةTry Hack Me هو منصة تعليمية تفاعلية مصممة خصيصًا لتعليم مهارات اختراق الأنظمة بطريقة عملية وآمنة. يوفر الموقع بيئة افتراضية آمنة لتعلم كيفية اكتشاف الثغرات الأمنية في الأنظمة...

    $199.99
    listed price
  12. 12
    Udemy Certificate Grade C

    Introduction to Security Awareness Campaigns

    Security Awareness Campaigns is about the components and reality of what makes awareness campaigns successful and which components are needed in it. This course will cover the basics of a security awareness campaign tha...

    $29.99
    listed price

Best Vulnerabilities Courses for Beginners compared

# Course Provider Offered by Price
1 Introduction to LLM Vulnerabilities edX Pragmatic AI Labs $249.00 View →
2 Introduction to Computer Security Coursera Royal Holloway, University of London & University of London $49.00 View →
3 Introduction to Cyber Threats and Digital Hygiene Risk Coursera Minnesota State University, Mankato $49.00 View →
4 Fundamentals of Network Security and Cryptography Coursera Packt $49.00 View →
5 Introduction to Software Side Channels and Mitigations edX Graz University of Technology $129.00 View →
6 Fundamentals of Ethical Hacking Tools with ChatGPT & Python Udemy $19.99 View →
7 Cisco Cybersecurity Fundamentals (200-201 CCNACBR) v1.2 Udemy $19.99 View →
8 Ethical Hacking 2021: Beginners to Advanced level Udemy $24.99 View →
9 Learn Cybersecurity From Scratch Udemy $99.99 View →
10 Practical Cybersecurity Fundamentals: Unit 3 Coursera Pearson $49.00 View →
11 TryHackMe:Cyber Security Fundamentals Udemy $199.99 View →
12 Introduction to Security Awareness Campaigns Udemy $29.99 View →

Prices shown are the provider's listed price when we last updated this page. Confirm on their site before enrolling.

What the prices here tell you

The 12 priced courses on this page run from $19.99 to $249.00, with the middle of the range around $49.00 — a spread of $229.01. That is a wide gap for one subject. A higher price on this page usually reflects who is behind the course rather than how much material it contains, so it is worth opening two or three at different price points and comparing their syllabus before deciding.

Who is behind these courses

These courses come from edX, Coursera and Udemy. The platforms differ in how they sell: some charge once per course, others expect a subscription, and the listed price is not always what you pay at checkout after a promotion. 3 of these are produced by a named university or institution, including Royal Holloway, University of London & University of London, Minnesota State University, Mankato and Graz University of Technology — which usually means a fixed syllabus and a recognised certificate, rather than an individual instructor’s own course.

Before you enrol

Open the provider’s own page and check three things this comparison cannot tell you: when the course was last updated, what the syllabus actually covers in its later sections, and what recent learners say. Prices shown here are the provider’s listed price when we last rebuilt this page on 18 September 2026 — they change often, and a promotion can move them substantially. We earn a commission if you enrol through our links, which costs you nothing and never affects the order courses appear in.

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