Founded in 2010, Social-Engineer, LLC specializes in applying the principles of human psychology to educate and train customers against their information security (InfoSec) vulnerabilities and risks. They provide services like simulated attacks and infiltrations, behavior and points of failure analyses, detailed instructions, and training courses to prevent various and evolving attacks on individuals, institutions, and corporations. Social-Engineer's founder and CEO, Christopher Hadnagy – who has hosted a podcast on the science behind online scamming and written the literal book on social engineering – got his start in InfoSec by getting expelled from college.
Chris was close to achieving a formal education, but his curiosity about information security got the best of him when he wrote a war-dialing program that accidentally shut down the local phone system. After his expulsion, he explored a wild career path from owning his own window-cleaning company to a chef to an international negotiator of stainless steel. Even as he built this winding, exciting journey for himself, Chris eventually grew restless in his time away from InfoSec and took an online course in penetration testing.
