Social Engineering ( Targeting End user is easier than implementing a technical HACK! )
Kumayl Rajani ??
Risk Management | Cybersecurity Awareness Specialist | Change management
Social Engineering
Companies face an increasing risk of social engineering-based threats to their security and data
Social-Engineering is quite broad as it involves “any act that influences a person to take an action that may or may not be in their best interests”
Employees only need to download a bad attachment, click a malicious link, or give attackers one piece of information they need to break in. Security is a business-wide responsibility.
Companies need to realise if their employees are picking up the phone and answering emails, they are making security decisions every day that can affect the company
Addressing the importance of security during annual training sessions isn't enough. If you only talk about it once a year, you're doing the staff a grave disservice.
Social engineering attacks also make it harder to differentiate legitimate from malicious activity. In the past, cyber-criminals needed more technical skills to launch attacks. These days, they can wreak havoc with social network browsing, phone calls, and emails. They can conduct surveillance without raising red flags.
With recent research from the Ponemon Institute showing that the average cost of an insider-related incident (whether intentional, negligent or persuaded through such social engineering) over a 12-month period is $8.76 million
SMShing (form of fraud that uses mobile phone text messages to lure victims into calling back a fraudulent phone number or downloading malicious content)
Vishing the practice of using the phone to fraudulently gain access to personal information, are a few examples of social engineering.
The only solution is proper "Education & Action".
I strongly advice individuals and companies to be properly educated around social engineering, phishing, SMShing and vishing.
Kumayl Rajani (Cyber Security Trainer & Consultant)
#SEO (Search Engine Optimization), #Webmaster, #SEOConsultant, #Links_selling , #Guest_posting, #Paid_Posting, #LinksBuilding, #Content_Marketing, #Back-links-Provider, #High queality websites,
2 年Hi I hope you are well! I have many high-quality sites for guest posting. I am CEO of the ESBO brand agency mentioned by Forbes, and we offer “brand mentioning” and services. In other words, we can publish articles on nearly 30,000 sites from various niches that we have access to and we offer sponsored articles on these sites. Our agency can help you get your website taken to Google's top page, which allows you to get millions of traffic from around the world. In those articles, a natural backlink to your website or your client's website can be woven in, without it looking promotional in any way. I work with a team of UK, US, DE, FR, IT, and SP native writers so we can provide copywriting services as well.