RT-SOEN – Social Engineering

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About Course

*** Currently available at a reduced price while video lessons are in production. All written lessons and assessments are complete and fully accessible now. Video content will be added over the coming months at no additional cost to enrolled students. ***

This course lays out a complete, professional curriculum for authorized offensive social engineering within red-team programs. You will learn human-centric tradecraft from first contact to closeout: elicitation, influence, pretext design, and how to blend these skills with physical covert campaigns and hybrid ops. The course covers target research, story framing, voice and presence, space cues, timing, and escalation control, all anchored to clear Rules of Engagement and safety protocols. Learners practice comms and deconfliction, document every action for audit, and produce reusable artifacts such as pretext briefs, wardrobe and prop lists, comms trees, and AAR templates. The result is a team that executes cleanly, protects the client and the operator, and can prove its work.

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What Will You Learn?

  • Design and validate social engineering campaigns that support covert and hybrid engagements
  • Create ethical, authorized pretexts and escalation paths for human interaction testing
  • Map human attack surface including suppliers, contractors, and employee behaviors
  • Convert social findings into operational inputs, detection tests, and mitigations
  • Coordinate social campaigns with physical and tech-based actions

Course Content

Foundations of Offensive Social Engineering

  • Definitions, scope and ethical boundaries for authorized SE
  • Integration of social engineering into red-team campaigns
  • Authorization, consent, and escalation protocols
  • Balancing realism with legal/ethical limits
  • Measuring impact and defensibility

Human Attack Surface Mapping

Pretext Development & Narrative Design

Elicitation, Conversational Techniques & Influence

In-Person Social Engineering & Covert Contact

Telephony & Voice-based Operations

Digital Social Engineering (Phishing, Vishing, SMiShing)

Vendor & Third-Party Social Engineering

Insider-Influence & Recruitment (Ethical Considerations)

Physical-Linked SE Campaigns (Door, Delivery, Escorting)

OpSec, Anonymity & Digital Footprint Management

Legal, Ethical & Psychological Safety Considerations

Tools, Templates & Campaign Orchestration

Advanced Social Engineering Techniques & Trends