Summary

Recap

• Social Engineering is the use of influence and persuasion to deceive people for the purpose of obtaining information or persuading the victim to perform some action.

• Social Engineering involves acquiring sensitive information or inappropriate access privileges by an outsider.

• Human-based Social Engineering refers to person to person interaction to retrieve the desired information.

• Computer based Social Engineering refers to having computer software that attempts to retrieve the desired information

• A successful defense depends on having good policies in place and diligent implementation.