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LinkedIn Learning

Cybersecurity Awareness: Social Engineering

via LinkedIn Learning

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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