write a discussion Create a Social Engineering Scenario

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Create a Social Engineering Scenario. For example: an attacker impersonating a help desk employee attempting to access an employee’s protected information. Reflect on how you would solve the issue. Examine what resources, tools, and personnel you would use to prevent the scenario from occurring again.

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Running head: A SCENARIO OF SOCIAL ENGINEERING

A Scenario of Social Engineering
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A SCENARIO OF SOCIAL ENGINEERING
A Scenario of Social Engineering
Social engineering is the art of psychological manipulation used by criminals to gain
entry into a building, system or data to steal confidential information. Attackers in this
context of information security employ a confidence trick to win the psychological mind of
people into divulging private data to them. Social engineers tend to be an opportunist of the
way human beings behave in order to create a scam. For instance, if they want to gain access
to a certain facility, they would just walk briskly to the building and ask someone to let them
in. Social engineering technique by criminals is in the record as the most effective way to
gain access to private information (Social-Engineer et al., 2018).
The customer support desk is one of an organization’s most vulnerable facility, for
front office personnel are considered to be friendly, welcoming people who are kind...


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