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Social Engineering: The Electronic Attack

Phishing: attempting to acquire sensitive information by posing as a trustworthy entity in electronic communication (typically email).

ResultReady’s Social Engineering: The Electronic Attack online course focuses on the threat of phishing emails, fraudulent links, and deceitful URLS and how they are used as a part of a social engineering attack on unsuspecting employees.

All ResultReady online training courses can be used with the ResultReady online learning management system or with an existing learning management system already in use. In either case, our security awareness training courses can improve your employees’ training and development, help them prevent fraud, maintain data security, and make social engineering prevention a part of your corporate culture.

Outline:

1. Overview of the Electronic Attack
2. Phishing History
3. Common Phishing Attacks
1. Phishing Example
4. Phishing an Organization
1. How the Scam Works
5. Spotting a Scam
1. Embedded Links
2. Embedded Forms
3. Deceiving Domain Names
6. Active Defenses
1. Phishing Defense--Email Sources
2. Phishing Defense--Email Links
7. Summary
   

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