Social Engineering Defenses: Reducing The Human Element

This is a great article on how to maximize the ROI of Security Awareness programs.

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Social Engineering Defenses: Reducing The Human Element

Most security awareness advice is terrible, just plain bad, and not remotely feasible for your average user.

While often viewed as the best defense against social engineering, security awareness training is ineffective and expensive. This topic has been hotly debated by security conference panels (like the one I am participating in at Interop 2015), and in various articles, but the focus has usually been on conducting or improving awareness training.