'Social engineering is the biggest threat to the enterprise today'

L33tdawg: On a related note, Sogeti will be running their 2013 Sogeti Social Engineering Challenge alongside HITB2013AMS in April. Sogeti is also inviting companies in The Netherlands to sign up to have their security assessed for free. Participating companies will receive a report on their susceptibility to social engineering attacks.

Shane MacDougall is a well known ethical hacker and IT security consultant. A two-time winner of the Social Engineering competition run by Defcon, the world’s longest running and largest hacker convention, he is a principal partner at Tactical Intelligence, a Canadian boutique IT security firm that specialises in social engineering and corporate information gathering, and red team tests.

MacDougall, who has presented at security conferences including BlackHat EU, BSides Las Vegas and DerbyCon, will be speaking at the Cyber Defence Summit Middle East and North Africa organised by ITA, Oman CERT and naseba in Muscat on March 4-5th.