Cybersecurity:risks, vulnerabilities and countermeasures to prevent social engineering attacks

Social engineering, also known as human hacking, is the art of tricking employees and consumers into disclosing their credentials and then using them to gain access to networks or accounts. It is a hacker's tricky use of deception or manipulation of people's tendency to trust, be corporative, or simply follow their desire to explore and be curious. Sophisticated IT security systems cannot protect systems from hackers or defend against what seems to be authorized access. People are easily hacked, making them and their social media posts high-risk attack targets. It is often easy to get computer users to infect their corporate network or mobiles by luring them to spoof websites and or tricking them into clicking on harmful links and or downloading and installing malicious applications and or backdoor's.