Social Engineering

RELEASE DATE: JUNE 22, 2026
ESTIMATED DURATION: 75 MINUTES

This fast moving program on preventing losses will focus on the information identity thieves obtain before they call your financial institution and the information they want to get from you. You will learn how criminals target your institution when trying to obtain information or financial rewards. Understand how to question a person so you can determine if they are a customer or a thief. Don’t let the criminals socially engineer you or your staff into giving them financial information or access to another person’s account.

Objectives:

• Understanding how a social engineer can attack your financial institution
• Knowing the steps, a social engineer takes to make you like them
• Reviewing how a social engineering attack is designed and delivered
• The reason you don’t want employee entrance marked on your entry door

SUBJECT MATTER EXPERT:

Barry Thompson is a nationally recognized subject matter expert, consultant, and former banker, with over 40 years of service to the financial institution industry. Barry’s financial services career spanned 22 years before he “retired” to establish Thompson Consulting Group, LLC, his consulting firm that assists financial institutions in competing more effectively by providing services specifically targeted to risk management and security. During his career, he served as executive vice president, senior vice president, treasurer, compliance officer, and security officer. In these positions, he has worked in or managed operations, accounting, investments, mortgage processing, and special assignments and has worked with architects and contractors in remodeling and designing institution facilities. Barry has investigated embezzlement cases, identity fraud cases, check kites, and almost all possible criminal incidents against financial institutions. As a security officer, Barry handled over 900 security cases. He has been involved with investigations and prosecutions on the federal, state, and local levels and has testified before grand juries, county courts, bankruptcy courts, family courts, and the New York State Supreme Court.

Thompson Consulting Group, LLC provides consultative training services for financial institutions that are looking for experts with actual industry experience. With our firm, you learn to handle real-world issues using methods based on practical solutions for the community institution — unlike security firms or computer penetration companies, which only know our industry from the outside. We provide training, risk management advisory services, banking expos, community programs, and physical risk assessments.

LEARNING METHOD This is an on-demand e-learning program requiring learners to interact and actively engage throughout the training.  

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