Examples of Social Engineering

Hey guys, welcome back to the SecurityQ, your source for business data security. Today on the SecurityQ, we're gonna discuss one topic. The social threat to your business. Here's the game if you don't mind if I try. Out of the things you have inside, would you say would be most valuable? The thing inside your pockets We'll take your front pocket here, do you have something inside? You don't mind if I bring this out in public do you? I believe that's really strange. So you have anything else? Okay guys, so we just saw a pretty sweet video of a social engineer, or a con man, stealing personal items from a guy. I have to tell you I'm quite impressed with his skill. Now a lot of businesses ask me, what is a social engineer and how does that apply to my business? The truth is, a social engineer is somebody that uses social interaction to steal data. It could be personal, that data could be physical, that data could be coming from your trash can. It's data they want. And they're gonna use any and all tactics to get that data. Now I'm gonna show you what social engineering looks like at an actual business and I'm personally going to do it. Jive Communications, Voice over IP made affordable and reliable, has graciously given us permission to run a simulation. Everyone involved is an actor. Hi how are you? My name is Brandon Barney and I'm the IT director upstairs. I was monitoring our logs this weekend, and it looked like your Wi-Fi was bleeding into ours. If I could jump onto your computer systems real quick and make sure that's not the case, I'd sure appreciate it. This employee has one have two choices. They're either going completely fold and give me access to the network, or they're gonna shut me down. The question is, what are you and your employees going to do? If you're looking for information or tactics used by these criminals, check out the link for information from PC world. Our advice? Train your employees and test them. There are lots of professionals out there that can assist you in doing this. Remember, your security matters. Well guys, that's all the time we have for today on the SecurityQ. If you're looking for detailed information on social engineering, I'm going to be posting a pretty sweet video response. Remember, we want to hear from you so post your questions in the comments below, and don't forget to subscribe. See you next time on the SecurityQ.