GÉANT CSM24 Webinar - How to sell a fridge to a penguin… or make people fall for a phishing e-mail

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(Timezone - Europe/Amsterdam)
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Cornelia Puhze (SWITCH)
Description

Social Engineers are masters of psychology. They sell everything to everybody. Or – in the context of cyber security – they manipulate you and convince you to behave in unfavourable ways, voluntarily.

There are five compliance principles that have developed over the course of evolution because they proved to be beneficial to us humans. Social Engineers know them well and misuse them for their own purposes – to get us to click on a link in a phishing mail or to grant them access to our company premises. 

In this webinar, you will learn how Social Engineers work. You’ll hear about those five principles, how they are used in typical Social Engineering attacks, and most importantly, how you can defend yourself and others from these attacks. 

About the speaker
Prof. Dr. Kristin Weber is the Vice President for Digitalisation and CIO at the Technical University Würzburg-Schweinfurt (THWS). As a professor at the Faculty of Computer Science and Information Systems, she researches and teaches about the human factor in information security. Kristin Weber is also an author, speaker, and consultant for information security awareness, ISMS, data governance and data quality management. She served as Information Security Officer for THWS 2017-2024.


Picture credits to the Technical University Würzburg-Schweinfurt (THWS), Stefan Bausewein


The GÉANT Cyber Security Month 2024 campaign features a programme of four webinars by experts from the R&E community. The webinars will take place every Thursday afternoon in October from 15:00 to 16:00 CET. Check the full programme here: https://connect.geant.org/2024/09/20/unveiling-geant-cyber-security-month-webinar-programme-register-today

Participants
GÉANT Cyber Sec Month team
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