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Social Engineering: Executive Briefing

Social engineering poses a potential threat to not only employees at an organization, but also directly to company executives. In this executive briefing, we will look at understand what social engineering and how you can protect yourself from it.

Stephen Haunts - Pluralsight course - Social Engineering: Executive Briefing
by Stephen Haunts

What you'll learn

Social engineering poses a potential threat to not only employees at an organization, but also directly to company executives. In this course, Social Engineering: Executive Briefing, you will learn what social engineering is and how you can protect yourself from it.

First, you will look at different types of social engineering like Phishing, Vishing, and Impersonation. Next, you will see how an attacker would plan and execute an attack. Finally, you will explore how to protect your organization from attacks. By the end of this course, you will have gained an understanding of how you can protect yourself and your organization.

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About the author

Stephen Haunts - Pluralsight course - Social Engineering: Executive Briefing
Stephen Haunts

Stephen Haunts is an experienced Software Developer and Leader who has worked across multiple business domains including Computer Games, Finance, and Healthcare Retail and Distribution. Stephen has worked in languages ranging from Assembler, various forms of BASIC, to C and C++, and then finding his love of C# and .NET.

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