Cybersecurity Awareness: Social Engineering

Offered By: LinkedIn Learning

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Cybersecurity Courses Social Engineering Courses Phishing Courses Password Management Courses Sandboxing Courses Vishing Courses

Course Description

Overview

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

Syllabus

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

Taught by

Stephanie Ihezukwu

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