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SEC467: Social Engineering for Security Professionals

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    Understand the psychological underpinnings of social engineering
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    Learn how to successfully execute your first social engineering test in your company or as a consultant
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    Gain social engineering knowledge to develop new variations of attacks or increase your snare rate
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    Learn how to manage some of the ethical and risk challenges associated with social engineering engagements
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    Learn how to enhance other penetration testing disciplines by understanding human behaviour and how to exploit it

Overview

Off the shelf (OTS)

SEC467 will prepare you to add social engineering skills to your security strategy. In this course, you will learn how to perform recon on targets using a wide variety of sites and tools, create and track phishing campaigns and develop media payloads that effectively demonstrate compromise scenarios. You will also learn how to conduct pretexting exercises, and you will put what you have learned into practice with a fun capture-the-human exercise. SEC467 will open up new attack possibilities, help you better understand the human vulnerability in attacks and provide you with hands-on practice with snares that have been proven effective.

Delivery method
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Virtual

Course duration
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17 hours

Competency level
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Delivery method
  • Virtual icon

    Virtual

Course duration
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17 hours

Competency level
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    Working