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Social Engineering Training
Social engineering has proved to be one of the most prolific & effective means of attacking organisations of all sizes. Phishing attacks alone are responsible for over 80% of security incidents and 94% of Malware is delivered by email.
Cyber-attacks involving social engineering are rarely out of the headlines. Cases involving ransomware are hard to hide when all your systems are out of use, but apart from large scale ransomware and reportable data loss where a company has to tell a regulator, it is likely that a vast amount of social engineering attacks are going unreported.
This course equips your employees with the skills to identify & combat social engineering attacks such as not clicking malicious links or opening phishing emails. We follow nationally set standards and best practice to ensure you get the best awareness training possible for your employees.
Course Contents
Phishing
The biggest attack vector. Learn how malicious emails are crafted and how to spot them.
Vishing
Phone based attacks often used to gather intelligence for another attack. Learn how to spot and stop this attack.
Smishing
SMS (text message) based attacks that can be used to collect personal information or user credentials.
Impersonation
A physical attack to gain access to your business & data. Learn strategies for challenging these attacks.
Defences
See the business impact of successful attacks and learn ways to improve security within their organisation.
What Our Students Say
Great Course – Really fun and really informative, as well as scary!
I found this course really interesting and useful, and also fun! I’m off to check how many friends I have on Facebook…
This was a fascinating training course. Such an eye opener especially for anyone who uses social media a lot. Has made me much more conscious about my awareness of scammers, hackers, and the various methods used.
A brilliant way to learn.
Great online training. Liked the pauses for us to carry out task and test to ensure our understanding.
Great Course – Really fun and really informative, as well as scary!
I found this course really interesting and useful, and also fun! I’m off to check how many friends I have on Facebook…
This was a fascinating training course. Such an eye opener especially for anyone who uses social media a lot. Has made me much more conscious about my awareness of scammers, hackers, and the various methods used.
Course Objectives
Understand
Understand what social engineering is and why it is so effective
Identify
Be able to spot the tell tale signs of manipulation and deception
Defend Yourself
Reduce your personal attack surface and be safer online
Defend Your Organisation
Block and report social engineering attempts in your organisation
What people are saying
“Red Goat Cyber Security have created excellent, informative and interactive Social Engineering Awareness training which is suitable for all levels of staff. Lisa manages to get everyone excited about Information Security with her authentic and engaging presentation style. We are proud to call Red Goat Cyber Security one of our key security training providers.” – Deonne Prentice
Hiscox Insurance
Deonne Prentice
“Red Goat were very helpful and provided an excellent training course that was really engaging and helpful to a wide range of our staff”.
Bristol Airport
“Excellent course and great scenarios. We would recommend this course to anyone, really informative and relaxed. Rarely is there a course that is both informative and enjoyable. Really good.”
Royal United Hospitals Bath
FAQ
This is an awareness level course. It is suitable for all company staff and has been designed to be practical and easily understood by anyone. Our clients often employ it to provide their “high risk” staff with more in-depth training.
The social engineering awareness course was written and developed by award-winning cyber security expert Lisa Forte.
Students get a certificate of completion to evidence their training. This benefits their CPD and demonstrates your commitment to cyber security both to your clients & the ICO under the GDPR.
The online course takes about 2 hours to complete including a short exam to test learning. This means your staff don’t miss an entire day off work so the course causes minimal operational disruption.
We Need to Talk about Social Engineering
SOCIAL ENGINEERING within cyber security refers to the psychological manipulation of people into performing actions or divulging confidential information, either in person, over the phone or by message, text or email.
Social engineering is consistently one of the most effective cyber-attack vectors, used by script kiddies in their bedrooms to organised crime groups and nation state actors. It pervades film and popular culture and is the hallmark of fast-talking con-artists and secret agents.
Social engineering is frequently employed in espionage, romance fraud, sextortion, IP theft and getting grandmas to hand over their life savings. It is used in banking and credit card fraud, account takeovers, bitcoin scams, online gaming fraud and the theft of military technology. It is cheap, requires little investment in technology and is highly adaptable and effective.
Social engineering is used to get all types of malware onto a network from backdoors to ransomware.
20 Years ago, the “I Love You” worm used the pretext of a love letter to spread to 50 million computers – 10% of the total number of computers on the planet at the time.
Today, social engineering has been used to hack major companies, social media accounts, small businesses and governments.
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