One important aspect of security awareness is social awareness. What skills do I need to develop social awareness?
Emotional intelligence
There are no wrong answers
Social intelligence
Social sensitivity
What does the term social engineering mean?
Taking advantage of people’s willingness to help, their uncertainty or good faith, for example, to obtain confidential information.
A motivational technique to raise awareness of security among employees.
Spying on private information on the company computer using software.
Which of the following passwords is the best one?
MdLbd11M!
Fg67
,.:-_#+~<>!§$%&(){}=?@
Hans1960
You decide to go to a café and check your e-mails between two customer appointments. Here you can log in to a free Wi-Fi connection. You want to access Google Mail (mail.google.com), but you are redirected to the googlemail.account.net page. What do you do?
Nothing – forwarding is harmless as long as the page looks trustworthy.
Continue browsing in private mode.
Next time you are in the office, as a precaution, ask the Help Desk / IT Support to check your computer.
Log out of the Wi-Fi straight away.
The first step in ensuring adequate security awareness is the ability to a potential security risk...
to master.
to recognise.
to avoid.
Who is responsible for information security within the company?
The IT department.
The Security Officer (CISO).
The CEO.
All employees.
You receive an e-mail from an unknown sender, informing you that all of the information can be found in the attached Word document. What should you do?
Report the email using the "phishing button" and forward the e-mail to the Help Desk / IT Support.
Save the attachment before opening it.
Transfer the e-mail to your private e-mail account and open it at home.
What is spear phishing?
A massive spam mail attack targeting all employees.
A phishing attack launched by an employee.
A highly targeted, well-planned cyber attack.
A phishing attack via a smartphone app.
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Social engineering abuses people's good faith, willingness to help and uncertainty to gain access to sensitive information or data. One possible way in is for an attacker to pretend to be IT support staff member, and so access the computer of an actual employee. The result could be not only the theft of information but also the introduction of malware such as trojans into the company network. You can find more information about social engineering in our blog article.
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Phishing is one of the favourites and unfortunately, also one of the most successful means of attack. E-mails from proper senders are forged or imitated so that neither the spam filters nor people identify them as "fakes". There are different targets: clicking on a link that installs malware on the computer, an action such as requesting payment, sharing confidential information via e-mail, etc. There are now a large number of types of phishing like spear phishing, smishing (SMS), vishing (voice phishing), whaling, pharming, social media phishing and many more.
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Effective information security lives or dies depending on whether it is actively supported by employees – management included! In a security awareness campaign, basic knowledge can be communicated and employee awareness can also be boosted. Are you interested? We can help you set up a targeted security awareness campaign!
