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Class Description

Applied Social Engineering (ASE), a 3-Day course discussing Open Source Intelligence in addition to Offensive and Defensive Social Engineering strategies, is the newest course offering from The OSINTion. ASE was created as the companion course to the course author and Social Engineering Capture the Flag (SECTF) winner, Joe Gray’s Practical Social Engineering. During instruction, students can expect the following:

  • Learn fundamental psychological concepts as they related to social engineering
  • Discuss ethics and legalities associated with social engineering
  • Learn how to scope engagements with the client for continued mutual success
  • Gain context about victims through the use of Open Source Intelligence Techniques targeting businesses and people in addition to Social Media
  • Learn several techniques for conducting phishing operations, including how to clone a landing page
  • Gain familiarity with meaningful and useful metrics for social engineering engagements – beyond measuring the number of clicks or opens
  • Acquire new insight into building a technical social engineering defense program
  • Understand the rationale and implementation of technical email controls
  • Learn to produce Threat Intelligence

In this 3-day course, students will be exposed to lectures, labs, and demonstrations to help solidify their comprehension and applicability for social engineering. As a result, students will be provided the following:

  • Removable media with tools, operating systems, and other useful utilities
  • A physical and electronic copy of Practical Social Engineering
  • Invaluable experience

Students should bring the following:

  • Pen and Paper for notetaking (or a digital equivalent)
  • A computer capable of running a virtual machine (Apple systems with M1 chips cannot run virtual machines) OR access to a cloud VPS (may be limited in GUI tools)
  • An open mind and an eagerness to learn

Prerequisites

This course has no prerequisites.

Cost

This 24-hour course costs $1600.

Continuing Education & Employer Relations

Information about getting certificates, badges, or invoices for CPEs/CEUs/etc. and employer reimbursement can be found here.

About Joe and The OSINTion

The OSINTion, LLC is an online and onsite Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) training provider based in the US. The Principal Instructor, Joe Gray, is a recognized expert in Intelligence, specifically OSINT and other relevant topics in information security. Joe’s passionate and common sense approach to Intelligence is easy to comprehend and natural for students to follow along. 

Competitively, Joe has placed in the following competitions involving OSINT:

  • 3rd place in the NOLACon OSINT CTF in 2018 (as a member of the Password Inspection Agency)
  • 3rd place in the NOLACon OSINT CTF in 2019 (as a member of the Password Inspection Agency)
  • 2nd place in the BSides Atlanta OSINT CTF in 2019 (as a member of the Password Inspection Agency)
  • 1st place in the DerbyCon Social Engineering Capture the Flag (SECTF) in 2017
  • 4th place in the DerbyCon OSINT CTF in 2019
  • 2nd place in the Hackfest (Quebec) Missing Persons CTF powered by TraceLabs in 2019 (as a member of the Password Inspection Agency)
  • 2nd place in the Hackfest (Quebec) Social Engineering Capture the Flag (SECTF) in 2019
  • 2nd place in the TraceLabs Global Missing Persons CTF V (as a member of the Password Inspection Agency)
  • 1st place in the TraceLabs Global OSINT Search Party at DEFCON 28 (as a member of the Password Inspection Agency)
  • 1st place in the TraceLabs Global OSINT Search Party at DEFCON 29 (as a member of The Federal Bureau of OH-SHINT)