compliance series
Social Engineering: When Hackers Manipulate People - Foundation
Social engineering is one of the most common ways cyber attackers gain access to organisations - not by hacking systems, but by manipulating people. This course explains what social engineering is, how it works, and why it is so effective.
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Sections
5 Lessons
Certification
Certificate of Completion
Category
Compliance
Price: €150
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Understanding social engineering helps employees reduce human-led security risks before they become incidents.
In this course, employees learn how attackers take advantage of trust, urgency, fear, and familiarity to influence behaviour - often through routine workplace interactions that don’t immediately raise concern.
By understanding how these tactics work in real situations, learners become more confident in recognising when something isn’t quite right, pausing before reacting, and choosing safer responses. This helps prevent small, everyday actions from escalating into wider security incidents.
By understanding how these tactics work in real situations, learners become more confident in recognising when something isn’t quite right, pausing before reacting, and choosing safer responses. This helps prevent small, everyday actions from escalating into wider security incidents.
What's included in this online course?
Build Awareness Around Human-Led Security Risks
This course focuses on how normal workplace behaviour can unintentionally expose organisations to risk. Employees learn why social engineering works, where vulnerabilities appear in day-to-day interactions, and how small decisions can have wider consequences for the business.
Behaviour-Focused Learning, Not Technical Training
Rather than technical jargon, the course explores human behaviour - trust, routine, pressure, and assumptions - through realistic scenarios. Employees gain practical insight into how manipulation happens and how to respond thoughtfully in the moment, without fear or blame.
Designed for Simple Delivery and Clear Oversight
Built for easy organisation-wide rollout, the course allows HR teams to assign training quickly and maintain visibility over participation and completion. Clear tracking supports reporting requirements while keeping administration simple and efficient.
Sections Included
01 What is Social Engineering?
02 How Does Social Engineering Works?
03 Types of Attack
04 How To Identify An Attack
05 Key Take-Aways & Quiz