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Human Hacking: Identifying Threats & Best Practices

See how real threat actors use open-source intelligence and social engineering—and learn how to make employees an active line of defense.

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WHY THIS TRAINING

The business value

Reduce human-layer security risk by helping leaders and employees recognize targeting, manipulation, and reporting opportunities before a breach occurs.

WHAT YOUR TEAM WILL BE ABLE TO DO

Practical capability your people can apply.

Identify threat actors and their objectives Recognize information that increases exposure Understand how insiders are profiled and approached Apply practical risk-mitigation and reporting techniques
PROGRAM AT A GLANCEFull course content below
  1. 01Threat actors and organizational targeting
  2. 02OSINT and insider assessment
  3. 03Trust and influence techniques
  4. 04Spear phishing, smishing, and vishing
  5. 05Deepfake audio and face-to-face methods
  6. 06Employee empowerment and incident reporting
DETAILED COURSE CONTENT

What the training covers.

This is the established program foundation. We adjust emphasis, examples, exercises, and depth to match your organization and participant experience.

MODULE01

How threat actors choose targets

See the organization through an attacker’s eyes.

  • Threat-actor types and objectives
  • Industry, company, and individual targeting
  • Open-source intelligence collection
  • Information that increases organizational exposure
MODULE02

Identifying and assessing insiders

Understand how people with access are discovered and profiled.

  • Social-media and public-data research
  • Access, influence, and opportunity
  • Motivations and vulnerabilities
  • Building an insider target profile
MODULE03

Influence and elicitation

Recognize the psychological methods used to gain trust and information.

  • Trust-building and social influence
  • Pretexting and authority
  • Elicitation techniques
  • Warning signs during real interactions
MODULE04

Social-engineering attack vectors

Analyze the channels and tactics used in modern human-layer attacks.

  • Spear phishing through email and LinkedIn
  • Smishing and mobile-message attacks
  • Vishing, caller-ID spoofing, and deepfake audio
  • Face-to-face approaches and physical access
MODULE05

Organizational defense

Give employees the tools and authority to interrupt an attack.

  • Reducing exposed information
  • Verification and challenge procedures
  • Reporting channels and rapid escalation
  • Practical security-awareness improvements
WHO IT IS FOR

Bring the right people into the room.

Mid- to senior-level managers Security and risk teams Employees with sensitive access Organizations strengthening security awareness
YOUR VERSION OF THE PROGRAM

Keep the proven foundation. Change what matters.

01

Depth

Set the technical level for executives, specialists, cross-functional teams, or a mixed audience.

02

Context

Use your industry, operating environment, priorities, and cases to make the learning relevant.

03

Format

Shape the agenda, exercises, group size, and timing around your team and location.

START A CONVERSATION

Bring Human Hacking: Identifying Threats & Best Practices to your organization.

Tell us about your team, business priority, preferred timing, and location. We’ll help you shape the right in-house program.

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