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Security Awareness: Resisting Human Deception

 
Course: 173   Type: Course Workshop   Duration: 2 Days
 
 

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

  

Upcoming Dates

Oct 20 - 21, 2008
 Washington, DC (Reston, VA)
Nov 17 - 18, 2008
 New York

For complete schedule, please visit www.learningtree.com
 
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1-800-THE-TREE (1-800-843-8733)
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Security Awareness: Resisting Human Deception

 
Course: 173   Type: Course Workshop   Duration: 2 Days
 
 
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 Tuition

 
Course: 173   Type: Course Workshop   Duration: 2 Days
 
 

Course Tuition
$ 1,750 Standard Tuition
Tuition with a Savings Plan
$ 1,580 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
 

 

Your Course Tuition Entitles You To...

  • Class participation
  • Team workshops
  • Use of in-class hands-on equipment
  • Comprehensive course materials
  • Morning and afternoon refreshments
  • Course Completion Certificate awarding Continuing Education Units
  • FREE participation in Professional Certification
  • FREE participation in College Credit programs (including related exams)
  
 

Tuition Savings Plans

Training Passport
  • 3 courses in 12 months
  • As little as $1,665 per course
  • Savings as much as 40%
  • Only $4,990
Flex Pass
  • 3 courses in 24 months
  • As little as $1,830 per course
  • Save as much as 35%
10-Day Pass
  • A NEW way to save on training
  • 10 days of training for one person
  • Save as much as $1,070 per course
  • Only $3,950
Training Vouchers
  • Save as much as $960 per course
  • Fully transferable
  • As low as $2,095 per course
Alumni Gold Discount Attend your first course and you'll receive a personalized Alumni Gold Discount card, entitling you to save as much as $295 on each course you take within the following 12 months. Take just one course each year and you'll be entitled to ongoing discounts...year after year!

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