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socIal engIneerIng ForensIcs
DR. BARBARA L. CIARAMITARO
Introduction to Social Engineering
Social Engineering techniques are specifically designed to bypass expensive IT Security
countermeasures, which they do often with surprising ease.
(Mann, 2008)
Social Engineering refers to the manipulation of people into releasing information or
performing an action. e result of the manipulation is a direct loss of information by
the company and/or the achievement of some action that is desired by the social engi-
neering attacker, such as access to computer networks. ere are two main approaches
that are used by social engineers to perform their attack: technology or human. ese
are not either/or approaches because social engineers often use a comb