Social Engineering Quiz: Test Your Knowledge with Online Quiz

#1. Suppose you work at ACME corp. Your employer sends you an email from '[email protected]' instead of the regular [email protected]. In that email your employer asks you to send data from several top clients. What do you do?

You immediately send the document because you can't keep your boss waiting.

You don't react to the email and don't report this strange email.

You immediately post this mail on social media to show off your awareness skills.

Contact your security department or other incident handlers. Ask them to investigate this issue further.

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#2. What should you do when you've found an USB-stick? Choose the best answer.

Collect it and through it away.

Collect it and deliver it to your information security department. Provide them with context; 'I found this USB-stick in the garage of our organisation at 9 AM.'

Leave it alone. Let somebody else worry about it.

Connect the USB with your laptop because you need to know if there is sensitive data stored on it. It is mandatory to be compliant with GDPR.

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#3. You've worked with a supplier, a consulting company situated in a foreign country, for several weeks. The supplier answers your questions related to your smallest client (in terms of revenu) in Amsterdam. After two months the suppliers asks about your biggest clients in New York and Mumbai. The suppliers offers discounted service to assist you. What should you do from a security perspective? Choose the BEST answer.

Terminate the relation with the supplier.

Follow existing company policies and inform your security department.

Do nothing and continue working with the supplier.

Immediately grant the supplier rights to the files of your clients located in New York and Mumbai.

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#4. You have to work while travelling, how can you reduce the impact of shoulder surfing? Choose the BEST answer(s).

Select all that apply:

Work with public data until a safe spot is secured

Work with an anti-glare screen

Use two-factor authentication

Try switch screens as soon as you notice that somebody is peeking on your screen

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#5. What is the most important remedy for social engineering?

Multiple firewalls that are updated continuously

Security policy that is updated multiple times per year

Implement all methods SAFE, LESS, SCRUM, XP, PRINCE2, etc.

Never trust, always verify

Execute a risk analysis

Hire pentester to discover vulnerabilities

Implement Security Operations Centre to combat hackers

Hire lawyers that can litigate attackers

Implement forensic analysis to ensure chain of evidence

Patch all systems religiously

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