SC305: Social Engineering Practitioner

Training: Security - Governance, Risk & Compliance

Security professionals deepen their knowledge in the field of social engineering and learn how to apply modern attack tools and psychological techniques in a targeted manner. The course covers OSINT, phishing, tailgating, elicitation, as well as physical methods such as lock picking or RFID spoofing with Flipper Zero. Practical exercises strengthen both technical and soft skills to improve awareness and defense strategies within the company.

Presence training Presence training

Start: 2025-12-03 | 10:00 am

End: 2025-12-04 | 04:00 pm

Location: Nürnberg

Price: 1.590,00 € plus VAT.

Presence training Presence training

Start: 2026-04-22 | 10:00 am

End: 2026-04-23 | 04:00 pm

Location: Nürnberg

Price: 1.590,00 € plus VAT.

Presence training Presence training

Start: 2026-09-09 | 10:00 am

End: 2026-09-10 | 04:00 pm

Location: Nürnberg

Price: 1.590,00 € plus VAT.

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Agenda:

  • Learning package social skills and psychological tricks for behavior manipulation

  • Practical exercises for psychological manipulation

  • Building custom sock puppets

  • COA (Course of Action) – Developing an attack plan

  • Executing an attack (Data acquisition from specified targets)

  • Executing spear phishing on specified target

  • Exercise evaluation

Objectives:

The focus of the exercises, based on practical experience, is on building understanding of attack techniques used to conduct SE penetration tests as well as real attacks.

Note: In the course SC305 Social Engineering Practitioner, the objective is to learn how to apply Social Engineering in practice. This also means leaving the comfort zone here and there and venturing into the less comfortable growth area.

Target audience:

  • IT Security Management
  • Penetration Tester
  • Red and Blue Teamer

Prerequisites:

Previous participation in the course SC300 Social Engineering Basics.
Alternatively: Solid foundational knowledge in the field of Social Engineering.

Description:

The course SC305 Social Engineering Practitioner builds upon the two-day SC300 Social Engineering Basics with practical implementation and advanced topics. Learn how to deploy modern social engineering attack tools and thereby develop a better understanding of your own attack vectors. The course focuses on expanding both technical skills and social engineering soft skills to strengthen security awareness across the enterprise.

The hands-on exercises in the SC305 Social Engineering Practitioner course include building capabilities in Open Source Intelligence (OSINT, Google™ Dorking), psychological influence technologies, human risk assessment, physical hacking tools usage, as well as developing attack strategies based on persuasion and deception.

Additionally, expand your knowledge of techniques from phishing to tailgating and elicitation to classic lock-picking and RFID spoofing using Flipper Zero and which common methods for bypassing physical access, logical access, and authorization controls are frequently deployed.

Goodies included in course price:
VM for Social Engineering, Lock-Picking Set, Flipper Zero
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Guaranteed implementation:

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Price:

1.590,00 € plus VAT.

(including lunch & drinks)

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Allianz für Cyber-Sicherheit
TeleTrust Pioneers in IT security
Bundesverband der IT-Sachverständigen und Gutachter e.V.
Bundesverband mittelständische Wirtschaft (BVMW)
Allianz für Sicherheit in der Wirtschaft
NIK - Netzwerk der Digitalwirtschaft
BVSW
Bayern Innovativ
KH-iT
CAST
IHK Nürnberg für Mittelfranken
eato e.V.
Sicherheitsnetzwerk München e.V.