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Social engineering is the art of human deception. In the world of cybersecurity, it’s how to fool human beings in order to conduct cyber attacks. Some of these cyber attacks can be very expensive to your business! In fact, many of the worst cyber attacks to your organization’s network start with fooling you or one of your employees. Penetrating a network without human interaction is really tough. But the people who work for your company have privileged access that can be easily exploited.
I was at a Leading Cyber Ladies meetup in Toronto recently, where threat research expert Sherrod DeGrippo visited all the way from Atlanta to talk about how cyber threats often work these days, and what their attack chains are like. I had the idea to write about social engineering before I attended the meeting,…
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February 25, 2020 at 09:09PM
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