In order for one to be able to prevent and mitigate against social engineering attacks, one needs to be able to identify them. Understanding the patterns and progress of a social engineering attempt is essential. The use of some expressions, body language, and expressions during conversations should be able to trigger an alarm if they are intended to make a user fall victim to social engineering. Since attackers spend time to train on how to get their targets, it is the responsibility of the targets to create a security awareness culture. Companies should make sure that their employees have this culture instilled in them.

Organizational employees have laxity towards security since they know that if data is stolen by hackers, they are not the direct victims. There is also the false belief that it is upon the IT department to put in...