"Social Engineering". This curious, harmless sounding term refers to perfidious modes of communication, which constitute a threat to the important intellectual capital of businesses worldwide.

This is a very skilful manipulation of normal human strengths and weaknesses usually not noticed by untrained "victims"! One reason why "compliance rules" and other codes of conduct by professional social engineers be leveraged easily!

The majority of attacks start with the help of false identities via phone and mail, as well as in private life, congresses, travel and social media. The partial information collected in this way creates a puzzle, the contents of which are used for further activities on the way to the target (e.g. theft, fraud, robbery, extortion, sabotage)...