According to Verizon\'s 2017 Data Breach Investigations Report , nearly half of

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According to Verizon's 2017 Data Breach Investigations Report, nearly half of the breaches they investigated involved a social engineering component! Choose one type of social engineering attack. State which attack you chose.

Explain a scenario in which you believe a cybercriminal could use that type of attack to gain access to a network or valuable information.

Finally, recommend a strategy you believe could help to "harden" (strengthen) individuals so they would be less likely to fall victim to that type of social engineering attack.

Note, a strategy like "require employees to take a yearly social engineering awareness quiz" is NOT an adequate answer! We've been using such "awareness quizzes" for two decades now without much improvement. Be creative in your suggestions!

Be sure he following criteria:

1. At least 100 words. This is about 5 solid sentences. The forum question contains about 120 words!

2.At least 2 sources. You can cite sources using a hotlink or in a standard format like APA or IEEE.

Explanation / Answer

Social Engineering is a large range under which different malicious work is done using different interaction with the human. Different interaction are done to get information from the user which are necessary to go ahead with the attack. Scareware is one of the well-known social engineering activity. Here the identified victim is given like false threat like your system is affected install this software to clean and all those. This method is implemented by sending various emails to the user and making the user to lure into something. Once the user accepts it falls into the trap and the attacker gets access to what he needs. This can be prevented in various ways like keeping the antivirus and the firewall updated all the time, Keeping minimum two to three step authentication for any login access and last but not the least an email from suspicious sender shouldn't be opened.

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