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Social Engineering is the see to of tricking or careful cats curiosity giving out sensitive information, which is used for fraud, vengeance, murder or destruction.

The aim of this is to bring personal gain to the perpetrator and losses to the victim. The victim could be an individual, a family, an organization, or Government.

The reason why social engineering seem to succeed is because information that should be kept secret are right out there in the open in plain view for people to see.

Most individuals, families, organization and government establishments do not have information classification policy in place.

Information classification policy defines the degree of sensitivity of an information. Take this example, what information in our family do we classify as "restricted", that is the information meant only for the family; father, mother and children. Anytime a member of the family comes home after 9pm, it is considered late. We use our secret code (number of door knocks) to get the door opened by a member of the family. This acts as a deterrent to house burglars, such an information is restricted to the family and must not be leaked out.

Secrecy is the only weapon that minimizes or prevents the act of social engineering. Secrecy is the only effective counter measure against social engineering.

Data assumption is a intent come out that should not be treated with levity. Most corporation in this age rely heavily on management information systems to process and store data.

Such data are vital to the smooth running of the organization. Examples of data usage in organization are; marketing decisions, such as customer preference, data showing weak sales e.t.c

Due to the important role data and information play in the success of an organization its security must be a priority.