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Social Engineering: Overview

Your employees may not be aware of the threat of social engineering—and this may put your business at risk. ResultReady’s Social Engineering Overview online course offers your employees a comprehensive introduction to the threat of social engineering—and explains just what social engineers want and how they operate. Whether through pretext phone calls, phishing emails, or fraudulent URLS, your employees need to know who may attack and what they are after.

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
2. Social Engineering in the News
3. What the Social Engineer Wants
   1. Why an Organization is Selected
   2. Why an Individual is Selected
   3. Why Certain Information is Targeted
   4. What Information is Targeted
4. Building an Attack
5. The Phone Attack
   1. How It is Carried Out
   2. Defending Against It
6. The Email Attack
   1. How It is Carried Out
   2. Defending Against It
7. The Internet Attack
   1. How It is Carried Out
   2. Defending Against It
8. The Proximity Attack
   1. How It is Carried Out
   2. Defending Against It
9. General Recommendations

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