Social Engineering Defense Course
How to detect phishing and manipulation
What is this course for?
Here we'll learn what can happen because of a mistake on our part, whom we can affect with a click made without checking, what losses we can cause; simply put, to be aware and empathetic in digital environments.
What will I learn?
- 🚀 Social Engineering Fundamentals: Understand how and why social engineering attacks work.
- 🚀 Phishing and Its Variants: Recognize phishing and its variants by email, SMS and phone calls.
- 🚀 In-Person and Digital Manipulation Techniques: Identify pretexting, baiting and other manipulation techniques.
- 🚀 Warning Signs and Verification: Learn to verify suspicious requests before acting.
- 🚀 Responding to a Social Engineering Attack: Learn the steps to take if you fell for a social engineering scam.
Projects
With this course you'll create, optimize, automate or improve the following projects:
- 🚀 You'll learn to identify phishing emails and fraudulent websites.
- 🚀 You'll learn to detect and prevent social engineering.
- 🚀 You'll learn about the losses some companies suffered because of employees who didn't check before clicking.
Course details
| Course | Social Engineering Defense Course |
| Learning path | CyberUsuario |
| Level | Fundamentals |
| Aimed at | End users and employees who want to understand cybersecurity fundamentals and follow good cyber hygiene practices |
| Prerequisites | No prior knowledge required |
| Format | Online, self-paced |
| Language | Spanish (English translation available) |
| Modules | 5 |
| Lessons | 15 |
| Estimated reading time | ~10 minutes (not counting practice or assessment) |
| Material | Text lessons and a downloadable course diagram (Excalidraw) |
| Content access | Free: open, open-source content (MIT license) |
| Assessment | Online, 60 minutes, at least 80% correct answers, 2 attempts. Requires a subscription |
| Diploma | Yes, when you take the assessment on the DivisionCero platform |
| Certification | Included in the diploma, verifiable online with a QR code or certification code |
| Learning path certification | Counts toward the CyberUsuario Certified certification |
| Last updated | 19/09/2026 |
| Course link | cyberacademy.divisioncero.com/cyberusuario/curso-de-contra-ataques-de-ingenieria-social |
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