From the course: Cybersecurity Awareness: Social Engineering

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Sandboxing

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- Phishing attacks and social engineering attacks are getting more advanced every second. It can sometimes feel impossible to keep up with the trends as a security professional, but if you're not a security professional, you most likely don't care enough to keep up, which could result in row clicking or falling for sophisticated social engineering attacks. In enters the bodyguard, it can take many forms that are beyond the scope of this course, but the underlying technology is the same. It executes anything you want, and if you find that there is something bad about whatever you executed, no harm done, the actions were isolated from your machine. Genius, right? A sandbox is like your computer's bodyguard. It's a virtual space where new or untested software can be run securely, but it's also a space where you can execute suspicious software without any harm coming to your machine. You could use sandboxes in many ways. One…

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