Anti Social Engineering

Interesting...

A search on AO for anti social engineering came up with nothin...

Well I guess I should take the initiative. Heres some links for those of you in the future that search for it.

http://www.gocsi.com/training/erc/dase.jhtml
http://www.cioinsight.com/article2/0...1458982,00.asp
http://www.watchguard.com/infocenter/editorial/1302.asp
http://www.seas.rochester.edu:8080/C...ity/node9.html
http://www.csoonline.com/read/100702/machine.html
http://www.brienposey.com/kb/social_engineering.asp

Also attached document from csrc.nist.gov.

Remember, some hackers arent out there to be l337, and will employ non-digital methods of attack, such as Social engineering or dumpster diving. Although you might have enough common sense to recognize an engineer, the users on your network may not. The doc I attached is a simple thing to spread around to "patch" common sense.

Uh... did you do a search for Social engineering? Tutorial on Social Engineering. One of the ideas here is that understanding should help with the defense of. Although your links will still be helpful. :D

Oh.. and I moved this to Misc Security because this isn't limited to Network Security.

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