Workshop: The Hitchhiker’s Guide To Social Engineering with Cameron Cartier

It’s 2025, and social engineering attacks are as common as ever before. As organizations continue to lock down their technical controls, attackers must look for new avenues of least resistance to exploit. Often this can be as simple as asking for a password reset.

In this workshop, we are taking a  “defense through offense” approach to illuminating the principles and techniques adversaries use to trick humans into helping them achieve their goals.  By thinking like the attackers, we can be better prepared to recognize these situations and respond appropriately.

This workshop goes beyond the “what” of social engineering attacks and dives deep into the how and why they work. While this set of skills can be used maliciously, it can also be applied to make you a more attentive conversationalist and have more meaningful interactions with others.

After all, InfoSec is about people, not computers.