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Social Engineering Awareness Training Recognise, verify and report social engineering attempts

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Help employees recognise and respond to social engineering attempts with this focused HOT Lite micro-teach. Learners explore common tactics across email, messaging platforms, phone calls, social media and face-to-face interactions, including deepfakes.

They’ll learn how to verify unexpected requests and report suspected social engineering attempts using their organisation’s processes.

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What's this social engineering course all about?

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Understanding social engineering

This micro-teach explores what social engineering is, why it can be effective, situations that may involve social engineering and the practical steps learners can take to verify and report suspected attempts.

What social engineering is and why it is effective

Learn how social engineering uses deception and familiar situations to influence people into sharing information, providing access or taking action.

Situations that may involve social engineering

Explore social engineering across email, messaging platforms, phone calls, social media and face to face interactions, including AI and deepfakes.

Verifying and reporting suspected attempts

Learn how to verify unexpected requests using trusted contact methods and report suspected social engineering attempts through your organisation’s processes.

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Who should take this course?

A practical introduction for employees, helping them recognise social engineering attempts, verify unexpected requests and report concerns appropriately.

The ideal course for...

organisations

looking to strengthen social engineering awareness and help employees recognise and respond to suspicious or unexpected requests

individuals

wanting to build confidence in recognising social engineering attempts and knowing how to verify and report concerns

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Quizzes / assessments

Knowledge checks throughout enable learners to stay on track

Written by experts

Content created by our industry and subject matter experts

Simple to follow

Course delivered in bite sized chunks to suit all learners

Multi-device compatible

This course is compatible with most popular desktops, tablets and mobile devices

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20 minutes

Get up to speed in 20 minutes (average completion time).

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