RT-SOEN – Social Engineering

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*** Currently available at a reduced price while video lessons are in production. 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.

This course may include AI-assisted writing, images, diagrams, examples, or quizzes. All materials are reviewed and edited before publication. AI-assisted visuals are illustrative only and are not presented as real photographs, evidence, or operational records unless specifically stated.

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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

1.0 Foundations of Social Engineering

  • 1.1 Social Engineering: Definitions and Scope
  • 1.2 Ethical Boundaries in Social Engineering Testing
  • 1.3 Authorization Requirements for Social Engineering Engagements
  • 1.4 Balancing Realism with Safety in SE Testing
  • 1.5 Cyber Social Engineering: Phishing and Smishing
  • 1.6 Physical vs. Digital Social Engineering: When to Use Each
  • C4-T1: Social Engineering in Red Team Operations

2.0 Human Attack Surface

3.0 Pretext Development & Narrative Design

4.0 Elicitation & Influence

5.0 In-Person SE Operations

6.0 Props, Attire & Physical Elements

7.0 Badge Creation & RFID Cloning for SE

8.0 Digital SE Overview

9.0 Vendor Social Engineering

10.0 Physical SE Integration

11.0 Legal & Psychological Safety

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