What Is Social Engineering?

What Is Social Engineering?

Sometimes, a technical attack such as brute forcing passwords, introducing malware into the systems or exploiting software/hardware based vulnerabilities remotely is not the easiest way to gain access to an IT infrastructure or a person’s accounts. Rather, it is manipulating the weakest link in the cyber security chain, i.e., humans, via a number of social interaction means.

What Is Incident Response?

What Is Incident Response?

As cyber attacks increase in quantity and diversity and more and more security breaches disrupt the operations of organizations, incident response (IR) has become an indispensable component of cyber security programs. In this article, we outline what IR is and explain the essential elements of an IR process.