SOCIAL ENGINEERING SERVICES

Social engineering is a type of manipulation that coaxes someone into giving up confidential information such as a social security number or building access codes. Social engineering, in the world of information security, is a type of cyber attack that works to get the better of people through trickery and deception rather than technological exploits. These attacks take advantage of human vulnerabilities such as emotions, trust or habit in order to convince individuals to take action such as clicking a fraudulent link or visiting a malicious website. Though less sophisticated than other cyber attack strategies, social engineering can have severe consquences and often can be the attacker's foot in the door for a major attack.

Social engineering is employing the use of deceptive techniques to manipulate individuals into divulging sensitive information.

INFO SECURITY PAKISTAN™ offers multiple social engineering services to test human susceptibility to persuasion and manipulation:

Who needs the Social Engineering Audit?

GDPR requires companies to align with the main data protection principles and have a process for regularly testing, assessing, and evaluating the effectiveness of any measures protecting against social engineering threat.

Huge fines might be applied if a data breach occurs!

Nowadays, technology became a strong security factor, however, the human factor has proven to be the weakest link in the chain, no matter how robust the company’s IT systems are.

What is our approach?

  • Our social engineering specialist identifies and gathers entry points that can be used to perform social engineering attack
  • Evaluates the effectiveness of technical and organizational measures employed for social engineering prevention
  • Improves/creates company privacy policy, suggests the list of recommendations to eliminate identified weaknesses.

What are key stages of Social Engineering test?

To kickstart a social engineering assessment, INFO SECURITY PAKISTAN™ utilizes client-supplied information to quickly determine the most likely areas for social engineering success. With this information gathered, we proceed with the engagement as follows:

INFORMATION REVIEW

Request and review the policies, support information, and processes of the target within the organization

VECTOR IDENTIFICATION

Identify potential attack vectors, either provided by the customer or identified during the data gathering and review phase

ATTACK EXECUTION

Construct an attack around those specific attack vectors and provide a window of time that the attacks will be run (communicated only to the key stakeholders)

COMMUNICATION PLAN DEVELOPMENT

Construct a limited communication plan that details the measures to manage any support or incidents that may arise during the orchestrated attacks

During this phase, the attacker conducts dumpster diving, browse through the company website, look for personal information or find employees’ details

An attacker chooses a key victim and steals their sensitive information. Disgruntled or naive employees are often the ones who assist the attacker

FINGERPRINT

Аttackers try to develop relationships with employees in order to get confidential information from them

An attacker exploits the relationship of the employee with the company and tries to extract sensitive information such as account details, financial information, current technologies used, future plans, etc

We provide a detailed report that explains in detail the steps of social engineering assessment, the vulnerabilities found and gives recommendations on how to improve social engineering security

F.A.Q. SOCIAL ENGINEERING

Why should should I conduct social engineering testing?

A social engineering test is a simulated attack from the perspective of a bad actor, such as a malicious hacker. The objective is to simulate a cyber security attack and attempt to uncover security vulnerabilities that might otherwise be discovered by hackers. In doing so, you would gain valuable insight into the security posture of the assets and be able to fix them before hackers are able cause serious damage by exploiting them.

Hackers who use social engineering are constantly coming up with new means of attack; that’s why it’s so important to work with third-party testing professionals who are on the cutting edge of the latest attack trends, rather than relying on a DIY social engineering approach alone.

The overall time depends on the size and complexity of the in-scope targets. That said, most tests take anywhere from one week to four weeks, start to finish. To learn more about what’s involved in social engineering testing, read our post on What’s In A Good Social Engineering Strategy.

We get this question a lot and it’s not easy to answer until some level of scoping has been performed. Our scoping process is quick, online and painless. But overall, the complexity of the operation will ultimately determine its cost. For example, when determining the work effort, we take the following into account: number of targets (email, telephone) and the number of physical locations (onsite), and travel time between physical locations, if applicable. To help us provide you with an accurate and detailed quote,click here to complete our scoping questionnaire.

OUR

SOCIAL ENGINEERING TEAM approach?.

This type of test is an assailment simulation carried out by our highly trained cyber security consultants in an effort to minimize your organization risks

Personal information, and other sensitive data that can harm an organization’s competitive advantage and reputation.

  • Our social engineering specialist identifies and gathers entry points that can be used to perform social engineering attack
  • Evaluates the effectiveness of technical and organizational measures employed for social engineering prevention
  • Improves/creates company privacy policy, suggests the list of recommendations to eliminate identified weaknesses.

Why Social Engineering is Important..??

The human systems set up around technology are consistently the weakest link in the security chain. Attention to detail when establishing training and security infrastructure can help to protect businesses from cyber attacks and their related fallout.

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