INE Reviews

Summary: Overall, I would say the content and hands on labs are good. I thin this is the only place where you can get workbooks and lab up the equipment to out the theory to practice.

Positive: INE has content which is used in everyday companies. This content in not found on other sites. It also have workbooks to work with while using the INE rack rental system.

Negative: One of the biggest cons would be that I have to buy the INE subscription to gain access to the workbooks, I then have to buy another subscription to the INE rack rental to gain access to the equipment.

Summary: Overall I would it is certainly one of the best platform to learn and gain hands-on experience. The labs and challenges are real good stuff.

Positive: I love the INE platform and the training material it provides in various fields especially cybersecurity. The course content is really good and is arranged in the proper order which anyone can follow and become an expert.

Negative: So far the only bad side is the inability to download the course content. I think INE should make the course available for more than a year to its paid members.

Summary: Great content, engaging. You can tell the instructors are passionate about technology so it's really easy to get excited as you learn. I've got the premium and compared to university its a great deal. I can't believe I was paying 2x more just for one class for a subpar education.

Positive: Instructors make concepts easy with a lot of examples of different use cases. I went to school for software development and Networking. At university I didn't feel like the content and instructors were up to date. With INE the instructors have real world experience and it shows in their understanding of the concepts.

Negative: While watching videos my session keeps expiring. I like to do long sessions of study and I found myself logging in all the time and trying to find the place I left off.

Summary: It is an excellent platform to learn online, the price is not expensive and it is always available. Then with a small extra charge it is possible to purchase the voucher for a certification.

Positive: Elegant, modern platform, full of different contents and training courses. With a single subscription it is possible to follow all the courses that are present in the catalog.

Negative: Unfortunately, content and slides cannot be downloaded.

Summary: Overall really happy, I knew the content was going to be good as I'd gone through eJPT previously but having access to all courses, labs and the bootcamp content for this price really is a win.

Positive: I paid a similar price for a years membership with INE as I paid for one course and exam with eLearnSecurity. Now I have access to all the content and if I want to sit an exam I just pay for whichever one I want. Much better concept in my view.

Negative: As with most similar platforms the content isn't consistent. The quality will depend on the instructor but I'd like to see all courses follow the same format of videos, slides and labs. Some don't have videos and I can switch off quite easily flicking through endless slides no matter how interesting the subject.

Summary: Promo with eJPT exam voucher free.
At the moment, great daily experience. I hope to obtain my first cert very soon.

Positive: 1. Labs amazing and helpful.
2. PDF and ppt concise, always the videos.
3. Website is very easy to use, also for novice.

Negative: The price (750 usd/year) is not cheap for some people.
Also the certification exam voucher are too expensive IMHO (400 USD each exam).

Summary: Nonetheless, INE has a great collection of really useful training content. The labs are great and can teach you a lot!

Positive: > to-the-point training modules/presentations/content.
> great labs to practice what you have learnt.

Negative: > expensive for those who want to enter cybersecurity and have to pay for themselves.
> content not always up to date/the most recent (the concepts learnt stay the same tough).

Summary: An overall good experience with very well explained content and labs.
The lab setup should be better explained.

Positive: Ease of use and well detailed and explained content. The labs are very complete and help you understand the course as well as getting some practice.

Negative: Mobile 2FA not working and my account got blocked, support fixed it.

Summary: Overall, if someone has some IT or domain knowledge, it's a very good learning platform. Because it provides plethora of learning content at a very competitive price.
But I would prefer to have a real time chat / live support to get my questions answered. That will help me continue my learning with the same momentum.
Currently, am rating 4 stars, but as I move ahead with other trainings, I might change to 5.

Positive: INE learning portal has variety of trainings and courses from Networking to Cyber Security to Cloud at an economical price. This is helpful for everyone either already working or aspiring to be in the IT field. The content is clear, concise and the language is not complicated (easy to understand).

Negative: 1. In one of the Cyber Security courses, the content is from 2017. As we know Cyber Security is a fast changing field and the technologies / concepts become outdated so fast.
2. Also the technical support from the training team is not real time / live. Its only via email which makes it inconvenient and delayed.

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

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

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

Summary: I am very happy that I took this membership.
Planning to do certifications soon.
If you start a course then finish it.

Positive: Easy to understand, easy to learn.
Trainers are well renowned in the industry.
Certifications are famous.

Negative: Not any specific as it's really good if you start any course.

Summary: So far so good. Recommended to those who want to upgrade their technical skills or seeking a career change.

Positive: Wide variety of content for various paths in IT. Price is reasonable for the amount of training content.

Negative: Not able to download the videos for offline usage. Subscription plan changes frequently.

Summary: I've had good experiences with INE overall, support team is quick and helpful. Started and finished eJPT, currently doing eWPT and eCPPT.

Positive: Great training material and lab practices. The courses are up to date and include a variety of topics.

Negative: Subscription based model, you can't download any material and study on your own time.

Summary: 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.

Positive: 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!!

Negative: 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.

Summary: Very positive experience for the new price, it will earn its 5 stars rating when they will offer downloadable content for Premium subscribers (maybe yearly premium subscribers?). Hopefully they'll keep updating the content yearly to entice to stay subscribed every year and ensure their students stay on the edge of knowledge.

Positive: Immense collection of content addressing most subjects of IT, cloud and security. Very nice design visually for the website.
Easy to view content as long as you have an internet connection.

Negative: Coming from eLearnSecurity before it was integrated in INE, I would love to see downloadable content for Premium subscribers, both videos and PDF slides like eLearnSecurity used to do.
To be honest, most of the courses can be ripped/downloaded if someone wants to or it has surely already been done. The real value comes from the access to labs and exercises in the labs etc. Not allowing or making it easy to download the PDFs and videos only limits and annoys the customers. I used to take my eLearnSecurity PDFs and videos, and go study in nature where I couldn't have good access to Internet connectivity. Right now I couldn't do that with INE content even though I'm a premium member.