Security Awareness

Recognizing Social Engineering Attacks

Beginner
1h

By: Raymond Lacoste

Recognizing Social Engineering Attacks

Overview

This 30-minute refresher course reviews the key stills central to being a safe and hardened end user. Upon completing this course, students will have reinforced skills that will keep them protected when working with email, making connections on their system, and the importance of a clean desk policy.

  • Inspect the email address of the sender of an email
  • Determine the domain of an email address
  • Describe how to behave with respect to email attachments
  • Read a URL embedded in an email
  • Describe a clean desk policy
  • Describe dangers of untrusted USB drives
  • Describe dangers of connecting to public wifi

Modules

1. Recognizing Social Engineering Attacks

1.1 How to Recognize Email Based Social Engineering Attacks10 min
1.2 Verifying the Domain Name of the Sender3 min
1.3 Social Engineering Attack: Wire Transfer9 min
1.4 Social Engineering Attack: IT Asks for Your Password7 min
1.5 Social Engineering Attack: Gift Card Purchases10 min

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