LinkedIn – Ethical Hacking: Social Engineering 2023-2

Ethical Hacking: Social Engineering course. Social engineering is a technique hackers use to manipulate end users and gain information about an organization or computer systems. To protect their networks, IT security professionals need to understand social engineering, who to target, and how to organize social engineering attacks. This course teaches you how hackers use social engineering to gain access to organizational information and computer systems, and how to protect yourself from these attacks. In this course, cybersecurity expert Lisa Buck discusses the methods a hacker might use, including embedding malicious links and attachments in emails and using mobile devices and social media to launch an attack. She discusses the concept of “abuse of trust”—how hackers use charm, power, and influence to infiltrate an organization—and why you should be extra cautious with a disgruntled employee. Finally, Lisa discusses countermeasures that security professionals can take to combat these attacks.

What you will learn:

• Definition of social engineering and its types of attacks
• Identifying victims and targets of social engineering attacks
• Understanding the skills of a social engineer
• Identifying social engineering attacks
• Social engineering mechanisms (attraction, power, influence, browsers, extensions, mobile, social media)
• Abuse of trust (disgruntled employees, identity theft)
• Penetration testing with social engineering (email, website, phone, social engineering tools, phishing)
• Ways to prevent social engineering (defense, spam, phishing emails, insider attacks, data and media disposal)

Who is this course suitable for?

• IT security professionals who want to increase their knowledge of social engineering.
• Anyone who wants to learn about how to protect themselves from social engineering attacks.
• Employees who want to protect their company’s information from cyberattacks.

Ethical Hacking: Social Engineering Course Details

• Publisher: LinkedIn
• Instructor: Lisa Bock
• Training level: Beginner to intermediate
• Training duration: 1 hour and 33 minutes

Course headings

Images from the Ethical Hacking: Social Engineering course

Sample course video

Download link

Download file – 292 MB

File(s) password: www.downloadly.ir

File size

292 MB