Hacking Humans : Social Engineering Techniques and How to Protect Against Them

Social engineering is one of the biggest threats to our organisations as attackers use manipulation techniques to coerce people into revealing secrets about our companies to allow attackers to gain access to critical systems.

In this talk we will look at some of the techniques used in social engineering and look at how to guard yourself against them. We will cover subjects like pretexting, elicitation and body language as techniques for manipulating people.

Stephen is the Head of Development at Buying Butler and RightIndem based in Nottingham. Stephen is also an author for Pluralsight and a frequent speaker at conferences like NDC London/Oslo and Techorama in Belgium. He has a passion for software development and building great teams.