Social Engineering: Persuasion Of A Person Into Divulging Sensitive Information

The first of these threats is Social Engineering. Social Engineering according to Social-Engineer.org (2013), is “the act of influencing a person to accomplish goals that may or may not be in the ‘target’s’ best interest. This may include obtaining information, gaining access, or getting the target to take certain action.” The employees themselves are the area of the system affected by this threat. Social Engineering exploits their naivety. General lack of experience in recognizing this type of attack is a major reason for its success. Education on what Social Engineering is and how to recognize attacks coupled with company policies written, put into place, and enforced to prevent individuals from divulging or even having access to certain information no matter the scenario is the recommended course of action.

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The data breaches at Target, Home Depot are reminders to CIOs of how deadly social engineering can be. CIO’s and CSO’s realize the dangers of security problems on a massive scale. These are some deliberate security breaches that happen when an employee shares a password or loses a mobile device. An employee might access a website at work that loads malware onto his PC, which then spreads throughout the corporate network. In other cases, security breaches occur when a disgruntled employee leaves the company and takes with him valuable intellectual property that belongs to the company.

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This Social Engineering is one of the kinds of security attack that hacker use to get sensitive information. Social Engineering is essentially hacking without any code, just using a phone, internet connection. In our case, it is looking more like vishing calls. Phishing call is something like doing a voice solicitation. It is a perfect example of a phishing call that hackers, using their phone to call-in to personnel to extract information and data that can be used to plan a later attack.

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Avinash Raju Gangaraju Student ID # 545660 Social engineering is defined as wide variety of doing malicious activities successfully through human interactions. Social engineering attacks happen in one or more steps. An intruder first investigates the selected person and gather required information, such as potential points of entry and weak security rules and will proceed with the attack. The attacker proceeds to gain the selected person’s trust and then proceeds with the attack by exploring the security breaches.

Social engineering attacks are among the highest security breach techniques. These types of attacks can cause a severe risk for a company if their employees are not proper train to recognize the tactic used by the intruder. Social engineering is a technique of manipulating people, so they give up confidential information. The information these attackers are seeking are people’s sensitive information. This information is including people’s username and password, driver license number, social security number, bank account number and much more.

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Social Engineering is coined as the art of human hacking. While it is great to be ahead of the game with all those fancy firewalls, switches and routers many companies fall short on one of the most important aspects of security, Social Engineering. Social Engineering is the one thing that will not trigger a single alarm and will bypass all of a company’s defenses. In a scenario, a few investigators show up at your local office and show their badges and ask for a tour of the place. You 're legally required to allow these investigators access in order for them to do their job. They ask a plethora of questions, even some that may seem out of the ordinary, looking at your physical security systems, asking for passwords, taking any readings they can off of everything and storing the information. They seem to be experts at their job, so you don’t question any of their alarming methods; however, they are actually security consultants conducting a Social Engineering 'penetration test ' or experiment and grabbing access cards, installing keystroke loggers, stealing passwords and generally getting away with as much of your business 's private information as they can get their hands on. Social engineers take advantage of human behavior and they aren 't worried about getting through your firewalls, switches, routers or other online defenses. Even your ‘fancy’ biometrics won 't mean much if your users are tricked into clicking on a malicious link they think came from a friend on the

They will try to compromise an employee’s email account to see what they can learn there and will check publicly available information such as: Company web page , Press releases , Social media , Out of office replies with travel schedules. What they look for is : General information about the company, where it does business, and with whom , Names and titles of company officers , Management organizational structure: who reports to who , Information on new rounds of funding , Information on new products and services, or patents , Product or geographic expansion plans, Travel

The basic protocols and policies that you can implement to avoid these threats. In addition, create a phishing e-mail message to show how dangerous, a trained person can be.