Why protect yourself from social engineering?
Social engineering attacks are not that much different from an attacker gaining access to your systems, or building. In fact social engineering can be used to ultimately get access to those resources. This obviously can result in theft of equipment, customer information, or product information (intellectual property). Just like any other security enhancement you will find that you get a better Return On Investment (ROI). However social engineering training can actually help boost employee moral. Social engineering awareness training can make your employees more confident that they will not be tricked into revealing information, this can also make your employees more aware of other security threats and be more likely to report those issues. This improves security all around, which improves your ROI even more.
