Targeted social engineering attacks

Course CYB107C

Description

Government of Canada (GC) employees are often the targets of spear phishing Spear phishingThe use of spoofed emails to persuade people within an organization to reveal their usernames or passwords. Unlike phishing, which involves mass mailing, spear phishing is small-scale and well targeted. and whaling campaigns given their access to sensitive and financial information. There is a requirement to increase the cyber security Cyber securityThe protection of digital information, as well as the integrity of the infrastructure housing and transmitting digital information. More specifically, cyber security includes the body of technologies, processes, practices and response and mitigation measures designed to protect networks, computers, programs and data from attack, damage or unauthorized access so as to ensure confidentiality, integrity and availability. awareness on these commons risks by highlighting how to identify them, mitigate and avoid them.

Objectives

  • Describe various types of social engineering attacks
  • Recognize characteristics of social engineering attacks
  • Describe tactics used to camouflage malicious links
  • Adopt practices that reduce social engineering threats
  • Recall how to contain and recover from social engineering compromises

Target audience

The target audience is senior management, executives and their staff, and any other employees in the private/public sector who may be the focus of targeted social engineering Social engineeringThe practice of obtaining confidential information by manipulation of legitimate users. A social engineer will commonly use the telephone or internet to trick people into revealing sensitive information. For example, phishing is a type of social engineering. attacks and who are looking to protect themselves and their assets from cyber-attacks.

Prerequisites

Prior to attending, it would be beneficial for participants to take course DDN235S - Discovering Cyber Security.

 

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