Social engineering, or about social sciences in the world of technology.

Technology is not everything.

When talking about security and security, we first think of advanced technologies and expensive devices: intruder detection systems, active prevention systems, data protection against leakage, secure authentication, authorization and sharing of resources. In order to feel safe, we spend a lot of money and surround ourselves with barriers, scanners, probes, tokens, fingerprint readers or the iris of the eye. We install systems that scan and filter traffic for viruses, worms, Trojans, attack signatures or other anomalies. To process data from so many systems, we launch new ones, used to log events, correlate them, analyze and warn us about threats. It would seem, therefore, that by doing so much, with so much resources, we have the right to feel confident about the security of our systems and the data processed with them. The reality is unfortunately very brutal. While doing so much, we forgot about the essential thing - the level of safety, just like the strength of a chain, is not determined by the sum of all its links, but by the strength of the weakest of them. The question "what is this link?" will not lead us to an answer. For we should ask not "what" but "who" is.
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