5 Things a Company Can Do to Boost Social Engineering Immunity

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Organizations IT departments don't pay too much attention to being very susceptible to social engineering hackers. This article gave some tips that organizations can use to reduce the chances that they will be hacked. The first is to identify targets and make a list. This step points out that areas of an organization with elevated access (help desk, call center) ar3e the most likely to be attacked ,because of their access to passwords, etc. and that they should be trained on what to look for to recognize an attack. The second step is to recognize and address user limitations. this involves building steps in a process that takes decisions about access out of the hands of support staff. The third step is to test the processes and evaluate what areas to fix. The fourth step is to build awareness by posting large signs in common workplaces(above the coffee machine). And the last step is to develop an IT plan going forward on how to protect form and build countermeasures to potential attacks. Companies are as susceptible to hacking as anyone, and being hacked can be very costly. The more aware people are of the potential problem, the better off a company will be.