Social Engineering in Cybersecurity

Exploiting Human Element as Weakest Link

Information Security Basics 4.5(16)4h 38m16 lectures2 sections

What you'll learn

Understand social engineering and its fundamentals
Recognize the role of the human element in cybersecurity
Understand the importance of OSINT and your digital footprint
Learn phishing techniques and how to spot them
Build awareness of threats linked to websites and browsers
Reduce the information you reveal about yourself
Apply defense, detection, and response procedures
Understand how the Purple Team works

About this course

This course raises awareness of social engineering in cybersecurity, meaning how attackers exploit the human element as the weakest point in a security system, and how you can protect yourself and your organization from them. It begins with an overview of social engineering and its fundamentals, then explains the importance of gathering information from open sources (OSINT) and how you leave a digital footprint that can be used against you. After that it covers phishing and the threats linked to websites and browsers from the angle of awareness and understanding the risk, with training labs in a safe lab environment along the way. It ends with defense, detection, and response, and the work of the Purple Team, together with a workbook and a final exam. The course suits employees, security officers, and anyone who wants to understand the risks that threaten individuals and companies, and it requires no previous cybersecurity experience. By the end, you will be able to recognize deception techniques, reduce the information you reveal about yourself, and put protection and defense procedures in place inside your organization.

Expected outcomes

Ability to build a comprehensive intelligence profile on any target using OSINT.
Conduct phishing simulation campaigns in a legal and disciplined manner.
Analyze and exploit XSS vulnerabilities within a testing environment.
Understand multi-stage attack chains (OSINT → Phishing → Exploitation).
Shift from offensive thinking to defensive thinking and enhance protection mechanisms.
Prepare to work within Red Team, Blue Team, or Purple Team environments.

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Course content

Social Engineering in Cybersecurity

13 lectures

Social Engineering Overview7:34
Social Engineering Basics19:42
Basic Recon Lab9:17
OSINT Deep Dive28:36
OSINT Lab51:15
SET Phishing11:34
Phishing Lab31:32
SE with Metasploit13:28
Windows Backdoor Lab31:27
XSS & BeEF14:06
XSS LabWalks through a hands-on Cross Site Scripting lab and the BeEF tool: running http.server as a listener, stealing cookies with a script, sending a phishing link to the victim, then controlling the browser from the BeEF panel.30:32
Defense & Purple TeamExplains defenses against social engineering: checking the email sender, shortened links and HTTPS, testing suspicious files, training the team, and metrics for time to detect and time to respond.23:24
Final ExamA multiple-choice final exam with explained answers on persuasion and urgency principles, credential storage and team metrics, followed by a course recap: ethics, written permission, humans as the weakest link, and continuous learning.6:28