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Phishing and Initial Access

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Understand and defend against phishing in an isolated sandbox: social-engineering fundamentals, email authentication and its gaps, and an authorised-simulation capstone that ends in layered defences.

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  1. 1
    intermediate Hands-on lab Subscription

    Phishing and Social Engineering Fundamentals

    Why phishing works, the psychology it exploits, and the controls that stop it, studied in an isolated sandbox.

    40 min3 taskssocial-engineering
  2. 2
    intermediate Hands-on lab Subscription

    Email Authentication and Its Gaps

    How SPF, DKIM, and DMARC stop spoofing, and the gaps attackers exploit when they are misconfigured.

    45 min3 taskssocial-engineering
  3. 3
    advanced Hands-on lab Subscription

    Capstone: Run and Defend a Simulated Campaign

    Run an authorised phishing simulation in the sandbox, measure it, and turn the results into concrete defences.

    80 min4 taskssocial-engineering

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Updated 2026-09-01