On the way into a secure building, an unknown individual strikes up a conversation with an employee. The employee scans the required badge at the door while the unknown individual holds the door open, seemingly out of courtesy, for the employee. Which of the following social engineering techniques is being utilized?
The described scenario illustrates the social engineering technique known as tailgating. Tailgating involves an unauthorized individual following an authorized person into a secure building without providing their own credentials for access. In this scenario, the unknown individual engages in conversation and takes advantage of the employee's access by holding the door open when the employee scans their badge, thus gaining unauthorized entry. This aligns with the definition of tailgating, whereas shoulder surfing involves observing someone’s private information over their shoulder, which is not depicted in this instance.
Answer C (Tailgating)
Tailgating is following someone who has access to a secure into that area without having access yourself. Shoulder surfing is looking at information that someone who has access to it is looking at over their shoulder /while they have it open to view when you shouldn't otherwise have access to that information. This sounds more like Tailgating than Shoulder surfing for sure.
The answer is A. "The employee scans the required badge at the door WHILE the unknown individual holds the door open..." The question never said the stranger went in with the employee but it stressed "WHILE", depicting that at that moment, the stranger was shoulder-surfing the employee. This question embodies paying attention to details - an attribute of a good Security Analyst. I believe the answer is A.
How in the world would this be shoulder surfing lol clearly tailgating
E: Rizz
It's C: Tailgating. This reminds me of piggybacking. I stand to be corrected!
same here, reminds me of piggybacking
Definite it’s C
Nope. Definitely A. Shoulder surfing is when someone is looking over the targets shoulder to see their computer screen. This is 100000% tailgating... following someone in without badging in.
Whoops, I meant C, and I was supposed to be replying to someone that said A. WHOOPS
C. Tailgating
Tailgating/piggybacking
Answer is C - Tailgating Tailgating, also known as "piggybacking," occurs when an unauthorized person follows an authorized person into a secure area by closely walking behind them. In this scenario, the unknown individual strikes up a conversation to create a pretext and then takes advantage of the employee's entry by holding the door open and gaining unauthorized access. Shoulder surfing involves the unauthorized observation of someone entering sensitive information, such as a password or PIN. It doesn't apply to the scenario where someone physically follows another person into a secure building.
I believe that all badges need to be scanned. this is a violation of Security 101-this is clearly tailgating. My question is has anyone answered SS and got it correct on the exam
Tailgating. This is clear.
C. Tailgating
C. Tailgating
answer is tailgating
This is Tailgating but going more granular, it is actually piggy-backing because the employee is aware of the "intruder's" presence but is careless not to notice that an unauthorised individual is somehow gaining unauthorised entry by riding on their back.
shoulder surfing??? Really??? it's tailgating or piggy backing