Complete Social Engineering Training Course

Learn how hackers hack Windows, Linux & Android by using Social Engineering and protect yourself from phishing attacks

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What is Social Engineering?

Social engineering means stealing of information, money or credit card data by tricking a person. For this, criminals use different mediums of communication, including phone calls, texts, faxes, emails, mobile apps, fake websites, and in-person meetings. 

Such tricks differ from common cyberattacks that extract this information by hacking devices. Rather than using viruses, the criminals resort to coercion, deception, and threats to trick the victim.

The most common techniques of social engineering use honey traps laid via phishing and spear phishing emails. They can also take the form of quid pro quo arrangements, in which a person is trapped by offering them sweeteners, such as discount coupons and free prizes.  

Unfortunately, the only trick to guard against social engineering is constant vigilance. To be careful with what you share and with whom you share your personal information. But, there are steps that can help raise alarms when criminals try to social engineer you.

Although sometimes neglected in favor of technical security measures, social engineering can often be the Achilles’ heel of an organization. Hackers and other criminals may well find it easier to trick unsuspecting employees out of sensitive information than to break through other security systems.

To steal business secrets, criminals either resort to cyberattacks, or try to trick people connected with the business. Such attacks that resort to tricking or misleading a person into revealing sensitive information are labeled as social engineering.

As you go through this course, you’ll learn about how social engineering works. We’ll help you understand how attackers choose targets for such attacks. Along with this, you’ll learn about the main methods of social engineering, including online impersonation, physical intrusion, and direct manipulation, such as bribery and threats. Then, we’ll look at prevention and response.

This includes, reducing data leakage and access control. And lastly, you’ll learn to spot and respond to social engineering attacks.

Course Description

What you’ll learn

• What is social engineering? 
• How attackers select their victims
• How social engineering attacks work
• Impersonation, physical and direct manipulation
• How to minimize the risk of an attack happening
• How to spot and respond appropriately to social engineering

Curriculum

1. What is Social engineering
2. Structure of this course
3. Introduction to Social engineering
4. Some examples of social engineering
5. Social engineering and identity theft
6. What attackers are looking for?
7. The seven deadly sins to avoid
8. Typical targets of social engineering
9. How attackers work?
10. Techniques for exploiting weaknesses
11. How attackers use Impersonation
12. Beware of phony phone calls
13. How criminals use emails
14. What is the Nigerian (or 419) scam
15. The threat of physical intrusion
16. What is tailgating?
17. Be careful of visitors and hidden cameras
18. What is direct manipulation?
19. Examples of social engineering attacks
20. Starting points for attackers
21. How to reduce data leakage
22. Benefits of access controls
23. How to spot attacks
24. Responding to attacks
25. What you should have learned

Who Should Attend?

• IT security staff who need to expand their understanding of their attack surface
• System and network administrators who want to defend their systems against social engineering attacks
• Staff members that use PCs, laptops, mobile devices to connect with office network

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