Social engineering refers to the "art" of manipulating people to divulge confidential information. Typically, criminal hackers will rely on the fact that most people will be trusting (in varying degrees), and that it is much easier to trick employees of an organization into providing them with information (passwords, account numbers, etc.) they can use to exploit the company than to use traditional hacking methods to obtain it.Social engineering professionals (white hat hackers) work for companies to prevent such exploitations by learning the methods that criminal hacker use and developing strategies to combat them.


‍