The cyber criminals boast and say, “Armatures hack systems while professionals hack people”. Researches have shown that more than 75% of all successful attacks emanate from a human victim having been compromised by some sort of social engineering attack. Metro-access user awareness training. Both face to face sessions and using automated tools.

A vulnerability assessment and Penetration testing is required to be undertaken by an independent contractor (NOT the always your regular IT consultant). This exercise is important to expose the weaknesses and make recommendations to fix the holes.