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Operation Game of Thrones

There is a funny social engineering story that one of my friends, Adam, who was working at a well-known IT security and consulting firm told me. Together with his boss, he paid a visit to the IT department of a major bank whose chief information security officer (CISO) was his boss's old friend.

Adam prepared a presentation for this meeting about the latest known attack vectors, how they were used by threat actors to exploit vulnerabilities and to compromise systems, and what their firm was offering in terms of vulnerability assessment, penetration testing, and so on. During the presentation, Adam noticed something annoying about the CISO, about his body language, especially the scorning look in his eyes. He seemed ...