Social Engineering

Overview

Social engineering is real, and no one is immune. The risks are alive and burning 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, whether you’re at home, the office, or somewhere in-between. Social engineers are intelligent individuals, going to extraordinary measures to build trust and rapport with their victims before exploiting these relationships in favour of valuable data and cash.

Learning Objectives

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

• Understand and explain the difference between social engineers and cyber criminals
• Analyse and assess the risk web-crooks and social engineers pose
• Summarise the intentions of, and motivations behind, social engineering attacks
• Identify, plan, and implement the appropriate responses to incidents