What is Social Engineering?

•   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.
•   Companies with authentication processes, firewalls, virtual private networks, and network monitoring software are still wide open to attacks.
•   An employee may unintentionally give away key info in an email or by answering questions over the phone with someone they don’t know or even by talking about a project with co-workers at a local pub after hours.


 It’s been said that security is only as strong as the weakest link. 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. It need not be restricted to corporate networks alone. It does not matter if enterprises have invested in high end infrastructure