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Security Awareness: Resisting Human Deception

 
Course: 173     Type: Course Workshop     Duration: 2 Days

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You Will Learn How To
  • Help prevent social engineering exploits by heightening your security awareness
  • Decode the art of human deception
  • Identify the social engineering attack cycle
  • Define and help protect corporate and personal assets
  • Assess and quantify the impact of social engineering attacks
  • Integrate your corporate security policy into your professional responsibilities

Course Benefits
In order to protect the enterprise from sabotage, spying and identity theft, companies can no longer rely on technology alone to secure corporate assets. Security awareness is the first line of defense to prevent the exploits of social engineers, who seek out weaknesses in people. In this course, you learn to identify social engineering tactics, build a human firewall, and apply a personal defense plan that minimizes social engineering exploits.

Who Should Attend
Anyone interested in strengthening the human component of security. No prior knowledge of security is required.

Course Workshop
Through a series of interactive small-group workshops, you gain the skills needed to help prevent social engineering exploits. Workshops include:
  • Performing a self assessment of your personal security vulnerability
  • Defining your personal and corporate assets
  • Assessing the impact of an exploit
  • Analyzing the social engineering attack cycle
  • Creating preventive security measures to protect your assets
  • Developing an employee defense plan

Course 173 Content
What is Social Engineering?
  • Exploring the impact of social engineering attacks
  • Identifying corporate and personal assets that need to be protected
  • Distinguishing social engineering fact from fiction
Foundations of Human Deception
Walking in the shoes of a social engineer
  • Classifying types of hackers
  • Determining key motivators
  • Demystifying the professional social engineer
  • Selecting the target
Analyzing common traits and characteristics
  • Enticing the target
  • Increasing the target's compliance
Tactics, Attacks and Exploits
Pinpointing the attack cycle
  • Information gathering
  • Developing relationships
  • Exploitation
  • Execution
Exploring common traps
  • Dumpster diving
  • Eavesdropping
  • Shoulder surfing
Leveraging technological tools
  • E-mail threats
  • War Driving
  • Viruses
  • Internet tools
  • Keystroke Logging
Exploiting human weakness
  • Intimidation
  • Impersonation
  • Shared sense of crisis
Protecting Corporate Assets
The value of intellectual property
  • Determining professional accountability
  • Assessing financial and product strategies
  • Securing customer information
  • Addressing Personal Identifiable Information (PII)
Quantifying the impact of an exploit
  • Measuring enterprise revenue losses
  • Analyzing the effect at a business level
  • Dealing with consequences on a personal level
Supporting Corporate Security Policies
Components of your security policy
  • Physical infrastructure
  • Equipment
  • User accounts
  • Contractor issues
  • Incident response plan
Addressing social engineering
  • Evaluating industry security recommendations
  • Reporting security breaches
  • Managing exceptions
  • Responding to real and suspected exploits
Building a Human Firewall
Heightening awareness
  • Investigating roles and responsibilities
  • Identifying early warning signs of a potential exploit
  • Handling uncommon situations
Recognizing and addressing vulnerabilities
  • Taking the help out of helpdesk
  • Discovering misplaced intellectual property
  • Creating situational awareness
  • Applying proven tips and techniques
Developing an Employee Defense Plan
Tailoring the checklist
  • Referencing industry standards
  • Performing a self-audit
  • Recommending changes
Employee defense plan creation process
  • Identifying key assets
  • Assessing the impact and probability
  • Prioritizing the top 20%
  • Defining protective measures
  • Implementing defense strategies
Putting the plan into action
  • Monitoring for effectiveness
  • Customizing the plan for changing environments
  • Responding to real and suspected exploits
  
 
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Security Awareness: Resisting Human Deception
Upcoming Dates
Jun 9 - 10, 2008
 Washington, DC (Rockville, MD)
Oct 20 - 21, 2008
 Washington, DC (Reston, VA)
Nov 17 - 18, 2008
 New York

Security Awareness: Resisting Human Deception
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Course Tuition
$ 1,750 Standard Tuition
Tuition with a Savings Plan
$ 830 10-Day Pass
$ 1,665 Training Passport
$ 1,830 Flex-Pass
$ 2,095 Voucher 10-Pack
$ 1,575 Alumni Gold Discount
$ 1,375 Government Discount
 

 

Security Awareness: Resisting Human Deception
Security Awareness: Resisting Human Deception
Course participants creating an employee defense plan.

CPE 11 Credits 1 Hour(s) College Credit
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