Using Social Engineering attacks cyber-criminals can get obtain confidential information from a private person or an employee of a company.
In this panel discussion speakers will discuss the current social engineering challenges and attack techniques. Panellists will focus on the ways companies can better prepare the employees for these threats and comment about the necessity of specific tools.
Social engineering, in the context of information security, refers to psychological manipulation of people into performing actions or divulging confidential information. However, using Social Engineering to attack enterprises is not new – the presentation will show and explain which is the new level of sophistication, why SE is nowadays used in more than 92% of the successful attacks and what is the so called Social Engineering 2.0. This new evolution in cybersecurity can be called “the age of the human hacking”. The presentation will shows also the results of the project DOGANA (www.dogana-project.eu), a project conducted by 17 partners from 11 European countries.
