Social Engineering: How to steal a laptop and have lunch while at it!

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Presented at SAINTCONUtah 2018 by

Shaunak Shah

Information security is fast growing discipline. However, the weakest link still remains the human element. Social Engineering is the art of exploiting human behavior in order to gain access to sensitive information and breach security. This presentation highlights about one such recent experience I had with social engineering where in a person stole a laptop from a company and took free lunch to avoid suspicion. I will be highlighting what are the key takeaways from it and through this presentation I also want to emphasize on why physical security still matters and steps one should be taking to avoid social engineering attacks.(NOTE:I will be anonymizing the company and the person in the video to avoid any legal issues).