identify why you believe social engineering is the most critical thing you have learned thus far. Explain why you believe this.
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Introduction
Social engineering is a very powerful tool that hackers can use. Since it’s one of the main ways they obtain access to your network, it’s important to know how social engineers work, how they trick humans into giving them information and what you can do about it.
If a hacker cannot gain access to the network, the next most likely method will be social engineering. Yes it may be easier to hack into a system by brute force but what if its not possible. The only other way to gain access to the system is by tricking someone into giving them access. This is why social engineering is the most critical thing I have learned thus far in this class.
Social engineering is a very powerful tool that hackers can use. It is the most likely method to gain access to a system. We learned from our study that social engineering was used in every case of cyber-crime, and also found out social engineerings methods can be used for positive purposes as well.
In this class we learned about how hackers are able to get into networks through different ways social engineering works for them such as calling someone up on the phone or sending an email message asking for help with something technical but what if you don’t have any technical knowledge? What other ways do they take advantage of us humans?
In this assignment we were tasked with identifying ways hackers would try and gain access into our systems using social engineering techniques like phishing emails (fake emails sent by criminals) and pretending to be an employee at work so they could log onto servers remotely etcetera…
Social Engineering is a very powerful tool that hackers can use.
Social engineering is a very powerful tool that hackers can use. This is because it’s the most common way to gain access to systems. It’s also hard to defend against and there are many different ways you can use social engineering in your day-to-day life, not just hacking into a system.
Conclusion
I have learned a lot about social engineering in this class. It is very useful and it can be used to our advantage as well as against us. I hope that now you understand how powerful this type of hacking tool can be.