The Cengage acquisition is hollowing the company out
Cengage Group completed its $191 million acquisition of Infosec Institute in March 2022, and from the outside it looks like the new owner has been quietly hollowing the place out ever since. A 2024 Glassdoor review titled “Avoid Infosec Marketing. It’s a sinking ship” spells it out. The reviewer counted ten different marketing leaders at […]
WARNING INFOSEC
I am writing to officially document and express my extreme dissatisfaction following my recent experience as a training participant at the InfoSec Institute. After the first few days and inadequate facilitation, it was abundantly clear that the training would fail to live up to its claim of a 93% pass rating, hands-on training and Microsoft […]
94% Pass rate? I cry BS on InfoSec
InfoSec boasts that 94% of their students pass. What an excellent sales ploy. I pass you the money and I’ve got a 94% chance of passing and I’m off to a career making over a hundred thousand dollars. The reality is that no one ever questions that 94% which is a totally manufactured number. If […]
Bad Pissedconsumer.com Review – Infosec Institute
I was required to take this security awareness training as part of the cyber security initiatives of the organization I work with. As a technical person and as a person that trains and documents software concepts to end users this training was difficult to sit through. Dated cheesy graphics, poor sound quality, sexist language and […]
Bad Course with Infosec Institute
My organization has paid for NUMEROUS cyber-related/IT training courses for me over the past eight years, and this was, no doubt, the worst training course I’ve ever taken. The PowerPoint slides in the training videos have SO many spelling errors and some of the audio doesn’t even match up with the slides on the screen. […]
Infosec’s “Guarantee” Feels Like a Setup
I was emailed this from a person on reddit last night: I was promised a free exam voucher and retake, but Infosec made it nearly impossible to use. They refused to give me the voucher until I scored 90% or higher on their practice test. Once I finally hit that score, they took about 30 […]