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Task 3: Research Ways to Prevent Social Engineering Does your company or school have procedures in place to help to prevent social engineering? If so, what are some of those procedures? Use the Internet to research procedures that other organizations use to prevent social engineers from gaining access to confidential information. List yo
Use different ways to prevent a social engineering are:
(1) To check the Domain and status on phone and system: Well many spoofing attack is generated by the hackers. to prevent try to use avoid phishing website because hackers try to pretend the phishing website.For example, if you are on the Chase website, the URL is going to be www.chase.com. A phishing website will do something like www.chase.bankonlinenow.com.
(2) To check the secure socket layers (SSL) on Systems and mobile: You can check to time to time the secure socket layer is transmit signal properly. to check this is you can access a network so you can see in up right side of an a screen is show the green lock so its a secure. and you can double click on this and you see the security certificate for the website, and make sure it matches the name of the company you are visiting.
(3) Access securely in social media, limit surveys and games: You sure firstly to access source is secure to login and do not take survey online and do not play games on social media because, many spoofing attempts are distinguished as games or surveys that require you to log in with facebook account.
(4) If you ensure the provide confidential information or, even non confidential data and credentials via email, facebook messenger, phone or in person to unknown or suspicious source.
(5) Reduce the risk of baiting this is the digital equivalent of a real world trojan horse, where the attackers tempts users with free or found physical media (USB drivers) this is very harmful - if they plug it in, they are hacked!
These all are the ways to prevent the the social enginerring.