Social engineering is a term that describes the non-technical intrusion into your business environment that relies on human interaction, often involving tricking people in order to break normal security policies. Similar to traditional "con games" where one person is duped because they are naturally trusting, social engineers will use any technique to gain unauthorized information. Social engineering techniques include everything from phone calls with urgent requests to people with administrative privileges to viruses lurking behind email messages that attempt to lure the user into opening the attachments.
ROOT SG offers security consulting to help your organization identify social engineering weaknesses and then train your employees to help them become more conscientious of network security. The following are the types of social engineering testing we can provide: