Security consultant Jayson Street says top executives are the biggest social engineering threat. C-level executives are often no more security smart than your average employee and can be compromised with many of the common social engineering scams. These vulnerabilities won’t go away until everyone understands security, from the bottom of the organization, right up to the top, said Street. The executive’s assumption that IT already has the proper security in place is compounded to the previous point; when they think it’s more secure, when they actually think because it’s newer, it’s not, he said. These family members often often use family computers shared by the CIO.”]