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
• What is social engineering?

1. Social Engineering Techniques

• Influence and decision-making
• Phishing
• Pretexting
• Spear phishing and whaling
• Vishing
• Baiting
• Tailgating and shoulder surfing

2. Safegarding 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

3. Testing Your Defenses

• Phishing simulations
• Penetration test
• Physical penetration test
• Social engineering penetration test

4. Cybersecurity Awareness Programs

• Training videos
• Posters and flyers
• Education on personal data security

Conclusion

• Next steps