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Social Engineering Poll – January 2011 Results

Friday, February 11th, 2011

Another month has passed and we have another poll that will make you think.

This month we asked what steps you take to protect against social engineering.  We were curious if we could find any links to what people are doing to protect themselves and their companies from social engineering.  We gave a few choices to help out:

  • Nothing
  • Security Awareness Programs
  • Technical Controls
  • Scripts
  • Other

Before we tell you the results what do you think was the most popular?

It might be different than what you think.

Once again we need to encourage the ladies to start taking a part as we only had 11% of the participants were women:

Gender1 Social Engineering Poll January 2011 Results

The results are represented by this graph:

Answers Social Engineering Poll January 2011 Results

Thanks for participating last month.  Make sure to check out this month’s poll… oh and Ladies, c’mon don’t let the guys beat ya!

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What A Social Engineer Can Learn from SourceCon

Thursday, February 10th, 2011

Gather around while I tell you an interesting story. About six months ago or so I get an email from an interesting woman named Amybeth. She tells me she works in this industry called “Sourcing” and helps run a conference called SourceCon. She wanted to know if I was interested in coming to talk to their group about how social engineers gather information.

headhunter a 300x208 What A Social Engineer Can Learn from SourceConFirst I was very curious what sourcing even was. She helped me to understand that basically a sourcer is a head hunter or a recruitment specialist that helps locate specific talent that their client’s needs. When they do they have to convince the “target” to consider switching careers.

Sound familiar yet? Well if you are like me, I started to see how similar this was to social engineering and decided to take Amybeth up on her offer. I booked my travels and this past week went to the Big Apple to listen in on the con and give a speech entitled, “Social Engineering for Sourcers.”
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