Summary

This chapter examined the important link between trust and risk in ultramodern access control systems, focusing on the impact of social engineering attacks on individuals and organizations. It emphasized the necessity of technological solutions such as email filtering and MFA, as well as extensive security awareness training, to minimize these dangers. Furthermore, this chapter discussed the importance of risk management concepts and assessments, infrastructure security components, risk identification methodologies, and risk mitigation strategies in securing local and online networks. It also underlined the importance of proactive risk management, ongoing monitoring, compliance alignment, and user training in creating a safe and trustworthy identity-based network environment. In the next chapter, we will take a look at informed consent and why it matters.