My Topic for the Lesson 8 Presentation
The topic I have chosen for my presentation is, “Preventing Social Engineering Attacks.” A social engineering attack is one of the most powerful weapons used to steal people’s passwords, credit cards, and personal data. It takes advantage of the fact that the biggest vulnerability of any security system is the users themselves. Social Engineering uses psychological tricks in order to get users to volunteer their personal information. These attacks can be launched very easily on a mass scale and range from sending you an email from “your late African uncle” to pretending to be your bank over the phone. They prey on those who are either unlucky or unaware. Social engineering attacks are so strong that they can even take down whole companies. Since these attack use complex strategies, it takes complex strategies to defend against them.
My Sources.
My sources are the book:
1. Hadnagy, C., & Books24x7, I. (2011;2010;). Social engineering: The art of human hacking (1. Aufl.;1; ed.). Indianapolis, IN: Wiley.
2. Peltier, Thomas R. (2014) Social Engineering: Concepts and Solutions. Retrieved February 26, 2017, from …show more content…
Both are highly qualified on the topic of security since they worked as security consultants. They did not list that they had college degrees, but this is less important than certifications in this context. Certifications require that the user re-test every so often to make sure they stay up to date on the latest security techniques. This is critical when writing a presentation on security because security is constantly evolving. I obtained the first source through research on Lion search and the second I found extremely useful in a previous
The topic I have chosen for my presentation is, “Preventing Social Engineering Attacks.” A social engineering attack is one of the most powerful weapons used to steal people’s passwords, credit cards, and personal data. It takes advantage of the fact that the biggest vulnerability of any security system is the users themselves. Social Engineering uses psychological tricks in order to get users to volunteer their personal information. These attacks can be launched very easily on a mass scale and range from sending you an email from “your late African uncle” to pretending to be your bank over the phone. They prey on those who are either unlucky or unaware. Social engineering attacks are so strong that they can even take down whole companies. Since these attack use complex strategies, it takes complex strategies to defend against them.
My Sources.
My sources are the book:
1. Hadnagy, C., & Books24x7, I. (2011;2010;). Social engineering: The art of human hacking (1. Aufl.;1; ed.). Indianapolis, IN: Wiley.
2. Peltier, Thomas R. (2014) Social Engineering: Concepts and Solutions. Retrieved February 26, 2017, from …show more content…
Both are highly qualified on the topic of security since they worked as security consultants. They did not list that they had college degrees, but this is less important than certifications in this context. Certifications require that the user re-test every so often to make sure they stay up to date on the latest security techniques. This is critical when writing a presentation on security because security is constantly evolving. I obtained the first source through research on Lion search and the second I found extremely useful in a previous