Tailgating and
Tailgating
is a technique in which a person uses someone else’s access to a building or in
a campus where he is not authorized.
It can be
very dangerous if unauthorized person access an office or try to get sensitive
information.
It may
happen by just following someone across the gate.
Even if two
people work in same office, each person
has its own limitation to access office area, if someone work in First floor of
a building and if he do not have access of second floor he do not suppose to
access second floor if he is doing it comes under Tailgating.
It’s very
easy to do tailgating someone just try to make friendship with someone else in
a common area like common smoking area in office or outside the campuses at any
food stall they will try to make friendship and may request to allow him to
enter in office campuses.
How to Protect from Tailgating:
An
organization can make policy to display I-Card whenever they are in office campus.
We can use
scan lock door, so that only those people get access who are authorized.
It’s everyone
moral responsibility to ask question if you find any unknown or not using not
using I-card.
Make entry
door in such a way that only one person can enter at a time. We can see such
doors used in Metro station so that only one person can pass at a time that has
ticket or metro pass.
Impersonation
means someone pretend to be someone else
A guy may
make fake social media profile to pretend as someone else to get some information.
Someone may
call you and say they are calling from IT department and they may try to get
sensitive information like IP address, software and antivirus details
How to protect:
Never
provide sensitive information like password, bank details or family details.
Cross check authorized
phone number, email before sharing any information or money.
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