Social Engineering
Learning objectives
- By the end of this lesson the learner will be able to: Recognize the impact social engineering threats can have on an organization and identify the most common types of social engineering. Gain insight into common tactics leveraged by social engineers including creating a sense of urgency, exploiting trust, and appealing to emotions. Identify warning signs of possible social engineering threat. Apply some basic strategies and protections against social engineering such as multi-factor authentication
Course overview
Social engineering is a huge part of your daily cyber threat, and it's important to have an understanding of what it is, how it's used, and what to look for to protect yourself and your company. Social engineering is the use of deception to manipulate individuals into revealing confidential or personal information that may be used for fraudulent purposes. Cybercriminals use social engineering as a non-technical strategy, relying on human mistakes. What does that all of that really mean? That's what this course is all about.
The individuals involved in the development and promotion of this course do not receive any compensation or financial benefits outside of their regular employment for their work on this course.
