Social Engineering and Security Awareness - Seguridad Mania.com - España y América Latina

Malicious actors exploit human nature to get what they want. Technology can help, but it is not going to stop everything. Once a malicious actor is in direct communication with someone in your organization, there is little that your technology can do. This talk covers the fundamental reasons for the necessity of a security awareness program in every organization and provides a model of what it should look like. Key takeaways include: --The properties of a good security awareness program --Security-aware policy --The limits and value of technical solutions as they pertain to social engineering attacks About the speaker: Joseph Carrigan is a Software Engineer with over 17 years of software development experience in a broad range of fields including computer and software security, microcontroller development, data migration, data integration, data warehousing and network communication. He has a B.S. (’99) in Computer and Information Science from The University of Maryland, University College and an M.S. (’08) in Computer Science from Capitol College.