Scarier than Hackers of your Business: The Social Engineer
What is scarier than a skillful hacker with bad intentions who has accessed personally identifiable information by infiltrating a company’s network of computer systems? How about a smooth-talking con-artist intent on getting your firm’s employees to just hand over a company’s money…potentially big money!
Today, as a society, and rightfully so, we are conditioned to always be enhancing firewalls, strengthening passwords, limiting online access to confidential information, and developing robust cyber breach response plans to deal with the inevitable hacking of our computer systems. All are “clear-and-present-danger” risk management techniques for businesses in 2015 and beyond.
But organizations should not sleep on the power of social influences which cross over into psychological manipulation and can leave your company just as vulnerable to a severe loss as a hacking incident.
Read more at http://www.cyberrisknetwork.com/2015/06/25/scarier-than-hackers-of-your-business-the-social-engineer/
Doherty, Andrew. ‘Scarier than hackers of your business: The social engineer’. ©2015 Cyber Risk Network. 30 June 2015.
