Raj Samani and the types of attack

S News meets Raj Samani, CTO Emea McAfee, at Cybersec in Rome.

Samani states: “People use informatics instruments and sophisticated technologies without paying attention on dangers and threats.

And now, attackers are using methods more and more shrewd and cunnings, especially social engineering methods, that exploit the ignorance of people to influence the subconscious of individual in order to obtain information.”

These are the types of attack:

In particular they use 6 levers for manipulation:

1. Authority
2. Relations
3. Reciprocity
4. Consistency
5. Social Validation
6. Shortage

Today the keywords are: risks consciousness, study and collection of cases and data, sensitization and awareness of danger, anticipation and prevention strategies, investment in knowledge and skills, community and exchange of experiences.

by Paola Guerra Anfossi
 

Here is the interview by Monica Bertolo to Raj Samani