Presentation Title: Social Engineering Fundamentals
Presentation Details:

** Presenting with Anthony Zboralski (Gaius)

“You might say there are two specialties within the job classification of con artist. Somebody who swindles and cheats people out of their money belongs to one sub-specialty, the grifter. Somebody who uses deception, influence, and persuasion against businesses, usually targeting their information, belongs to the other sub-specialty, the social engineer.” -Kevin Mitnik

In today’s world confidence scams present quite possibly the highest threat to security with in the business world. Control of information, withholding and leaking, can lead to massive failures and losses depending on how skilled the attacker may be. In combination with disinformation and propaganda, social engineering can as fatal as or even lead to loss of customer and shareholder confidence.

About Dave:

Dave McKay is an independent security consultant. McKay has been involved in the information security field for going on 9 years. McKay’s prior employment includes an impressive list of companies where he served in a security capacity including, Hotmail, Google, Microsoft, US Department of Defense and @stake (now Symantec).

McKay is now in Rome writing a book.