Cybersecurity Awareness: Social Engineering

Defend your organization from social engineering by learning to recognize and thwart the most common types of attacks.

Introduction

• Defeat social engineers and cyber scammers
• What is social engineering?

1. Social Engineering Tactics

• Influence and decision-making
• Phishing
• Pretexting
• Vishing
• Baiting
• Tailgating and shoulder surfing
• Challenge: Social engineering tactics
• Solution: Social engineering tactics

2. Safeguarding Your Company from Attacks

• Cybersecurity awareness training
• Properly manage passwords
• Install patches
• Spam filter
• Sandboxing
• Scan your attachments
• Anti-social engineering software
• Create policies and procedures
• Challenge: Safegarding your company from attacks
• Solution: Safegarding your company from attacks

3. Testing Your Defenses

• Phishing simulations
• Penetration testing

4. Cybersecurity Awareness

• Active and passive education
• Personal data security

Conclusion

• Continue your cybersecurity awareness journey