COURSE DESCRIPTION

Enter the world of information security from a human-information perspective with the Social Engineering, Phishing, OSINT & Malware course on Courseinger. This course is designed to help you understand how social engineering, phishing, and intelligence gathering attacks work online, how to detect and prevent them, and the principles of defensive malware handling (initial analysis, damage assessment, and response procedures).

The focus of this course is educational and ethical: we teach you how to identify attacks, assess risks, and design defensive policies. We also cover how to conduct legitimate OSINT operations to gather public information useful in investigations, as well as the principles of handling malware samples in a protected sandbox for analysis and security purposes only. We do not teach or encourage malicious use.

🎯 Learning Outcomes:

Understanding social engineering tactics, phishing patterns, and methods for detecting them.

OSINT methodologies for gathering and analyzing legitimate public information for risk assessment.

Fundamental principles of malware analysis from an incident response perspective (sandboxing, behavioral demonstration, and threat characterization) – experiments conducted in a sandboxed environment only.

Designing policies and preventative measures for organizations (user awareness, email settings, DLP, MFA).

Writing professional investigative reports and incident response plans.

Constantly emphasizing ethics, legal compliance, and obtaining approvals before any testing or analysis.