Awareness module on social engineering

The sheer variety of social engineering scams, cons and frauds is one of the key messages in this awareness and training module. This SecAware module concerns: Social engineering attacks including phishing, spear-phishing, Business Email Compromise and many more; The use of pretexts, spoofs, masquerading, psychological manipulation and coercion, the social engineers’ tradecraft; Significant information risks involving blended or multimode attacks and insider threats. The materials are designed to appeal to virtually everyone in the organisation, regardless of their individual preferences and perspectives. A given individual may not value everything in the module, but hopefully there will be something that catches their attention – and that something may not even be the awareness materials as such, but perhaps a casual comment or oblique criticism from a peer or manager relating to the topic. The posters, for instance, are deliberately eye-catching and thought-provoking, puzzling ev...