Social engineering attacks have long been a threat to businesses worldwide, statistically comprising roughly 98% of cyberattacks worldwide. The average business faces more than 700 of these types of attacks every single year. Whether manifesting itself in a sophisticated phishing email or as a calculated series of conversations between employees and seemingly innocuous or “legitimate” parties with ulterior motives, a social engineering attack can have dire consequences.
The premise of social engineering attacks is much the same; perpetrators attempt to manipulate and deceive users into divulging confidential or sensitive information or performing actions that can compromise an organization’s security. Given the much more psychologically focused and methodical ways that social engineering attacks can be conducted, it makes spotting them hard to do.
