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Social Engineering: Identifying the Dangers

ResultReady’s Social Engineering online course offers your employees a comprehensive introduction to the threat of social engineering, as well as scams and attack methods a social engineer may use to compromise your data security. These include: pretext phone calls and pretexting campaigns, phishing emails, site visits, fraudulent email links, and more.

All ResultReady online training courses can be used with the ResultReady online learning management system or with an existing learning management system already in use. In either case, our security awareness training courses can improve your employees’ training and development, help them prevent fraud, maintain data security, and make social engineering prevention a part of your corporate culture.

Outline:

1. Introduction to Social Engineering
2. Why an Attack Harms Your Business
3. What the Social Engineer Wants
4. Why an Organization is Selected
5. Why the Individual Victims are Selected
6. Why Certain Information is Targeted
7. What Information is Targeted
8. What an Attack Looks Like
1. Phone Attacks/Pretexting
2. Internet and Email Attacks/Phishing
3. The Personal Attack
9. Solid Defense

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