BONUS! Cyber Phoenix Subscription Included: All Phoenix TS students receive complimentary ninety (90) day access to the Cyber Phoenix learning platform, which hosts hundreds of expert asynchronous training courses in Cybersecurity, IT, Soft Skills, and Management and more!
Course Overview
Our 3-day, instructor-led course is directed toward IT professionals responsible for protecting their organization’s sensitive data from social engineering and other attacks. It covers all aspects of social engineering, including:
- Elicitation
- Pretexting
- Influence
- Manipulation
Schedule
Currently, there are no public classes scheduled. Please contact a Phoenix TS Training Consultant to discuss hosting a private class at 301-258-8200.
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Course Outline
Overview of Social Engineering
- Define social engineering
- Role in today’s society
- Four vectors of social engineering
- SE Pyramid
Information Gathering
- Gathering Information
- Sources for Information Gathering
- Communication Modeling
- Lab
Elicitation
- Elicitation Defined
- Goals of Elicitation
- Mastering Elicitation
- Lab
Pretexting: How to Become Anyone
- Pretexting Defined
- Principles and Planning Stages of Pretexting
- Successful Pretexting
- Lab
Psychological Principles Used in Social Engineering
- Modes of Thinking
- Microexpressions
- Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP)
- Interview and Interrogation
- Building Instant Rapport
- Lab
Influence and Persuasion
- Fundamentals of Influence and Persuasion
- Influence Tactics
- Framing
- Manipulation
- Lab
Tools of the Social Engineer
- Physical Tools
- Online Information-Gathering Tools
- Lab
Prevention and Mitigation
- Learning to Identify Social Engineering Attacks
- Creating a Personal Security Awareness Culture
- Being Aware of the Value of Your Information
- Keeping Software Updated
- Developing Scripts
- Social Engineering Audits
Defending Against Social Engineering Attacks FAQs
This course is designed for IT security professionals responsible for creating and enforcing security policies, promoting security awareness education, and protecting organizations against various attacks.
We recommend that students have experience with IT security and hold a CompTIA Security+or EC-Council CEH certification or have the equivalent experience and knowledge.
“Very professional, well paced course. I was able to connect onto the training initiative after the exercises were completed. Well structured course; I thought the instructor pulled everything together with questions that were asked after the chapters were completed”
Student, September 2018
“The class was great and I learned a lot of good information. The instructor is very professional with communicating the information to the students.”
Student, September 2018
BONUS! Cyber Phoenix Subscription Included: All Phoenix TS students receive complimentary ninety (90) day access to the Cyber Phoenix learning platform, which hosts hundreds of expert asynchronous training courses in Cybersecurity, IT, Soft Skills, and Management and more!
Phoenix TS is registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) as a sponsor of continuing professional education on the National Registry of CPE Sponsors. State boards of accountancy have final authority on the acceptance of individual courses for CPE credit. Complaints re-garding registered sponsors may be submitted to the National Registry of CPE Sponsors through its web site: www.nasbaregistry.org
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