The Intense School recently added security courses like a professional hacking boot camp and social engineering course. These courses teach IT professionals ethical hacking techniques to assess vulnerabilities rather than enable criminal plans. The social engineering course specifically focuses on how malicious hackers use deception to gain access and how to prevent such social engineering attacks. Both courses provide valuable perspectives for security professionals to protect organizations from threats by understanding hacking methods and how easy it can be to trick users through social engineering instead of technical hacking.

1. Thinking Like the Enemy David and Barry Kaufman, the
founders of the Intense School, recently added several security
courses, including the five-day "Professional Hacking Boot
Camp" and "Social Engineering in Two Days." Information
technology departments must know how to protect
organizational information. Therefore, organizations must teach
their IT personnel how to protect their systems, especially in
light of the many new government regulations, such as the
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA),
that demand secure systems. The concept of sending IT
professionals to a hacking school seems counterintuitive, it is
somewhat similar to sending accountants to an Embezzling 101
course. The Intense School does not strive to breed the next
generation of hackers, however, but to teach its students how to
be "ethical" hackers: to use their skills to build better locks,
and to understand the minds of those who would attempt to
crack them. The main philosophy of the security courses at the
Intense School is simply "To know thy enemy In fact, one of
the teachers at the Intense School is none other than Kevin
Mitnick, the famous hacker who was imprisoned from 1995 to
2000. Teaching security from the hacker's perspective, as
Mitnick does, is more difficult than teaching hacking itself A
hacker just needs to know one way into a system, David
Kaufman notes, but a security professional needs to know all of
the system's vulnerabilities The two courses analyze those
vulnerabilities from different perspectives
Solution
In the hacking boot camp,

2. The hacking skills can be used for malicious purposes, this
course teaches you how to use the same hacking techniques to
perform a white-hat, ethical hack, on your organization. You
leave with the ability to quantitatively assess and measure
threats to information assets; and discover where your
organization is most vulnerable to hacking in this boot camp.
Whereas in social engineering course,
The training program focuses primarily on how Social
Engineering works through the use of numerous case histories
and a detailed breakdown of the psychological principles related
to influence. It more specifically focuses on how a malicious
hacker or information thief uses Social Engineering and/or
Pretexting to obtain illicit access to computer systems by
duping employees, and what can be done to minimize social
engineering based attacks in an organization.
According to me the Social engineering course is important to
attend as Criminals use Social engineering tactics because it is
usually easier to exploit your natural inclination to trust than it
is to discover ways to hack your software. For example, it is
much easier to fool someone into giving you their password
than it is for you to try hacking their password (unless the
password is really weak).With this the user will prevent himself
from falling in to the trap.
Security is all about knowing who and what to trust. Knowing
when, and when not to, to take a person at their word; when to

3. trust that the person you are communicating with is indeed the
person you think you are communicating with; when to trust
that a website is or isn’t legitimate; when to trust that the
person on the phone is or isn’t legitimate; when providing your
information is or isn’t a good idea.