Questions

1. Describe how an organization can benefit from attending one of the courses offered at the Intense School.
2. Explain the two primary lines of security defense and how organizational employees can use the information taught by the Intense School when drafting an information security plan.
3. Determine the differences between the two primary courses offered at the Intense School, “Professional Hacking Boot Camp” and “Social Engineering in two Days.” Explain which course is more important for organizational employees to attend.

Answers

1. An organization can benefit from the courses because they will gain knowledge on how to protect their system from hackers. This is especially useful if the organization is heavily dependent on the smooth operation of their IT system (eg. Banks). With this knowledge gained from the courses, they can create a better security system.
2. The two lines of security defense are people and technology. People – The courses will enlighten the employees how easy it is for hackers to deploy social engineering to gain private information from them. The course can also teach them on the importance of security policies and the steps to ensure that the policies are being observed throughout the organization. Technology – IT professionals from organizations can make use of the information gained from the course to design a better security system. They will also learn to detect vulnerabilities of their current system and prevent hackers from exploiting these vulnerabilities.
3. The main difference is that one addresses the People issue and the other address the Technology of the security defense line. The course “Social Engineering in Two Days” is more important for organizational employees to attend because it would be easiest for hackers to gain access through employees giving away passwords, leaving password lying around, etc. So by attending this course they can protect themselves from being a victim of social engineering.