--- title: CTO's Quiet Strategy: Unlocking Client Information Secrets description: A CTO describes a social engineering tactic where they pose as a company executive on client calls to extract sensitive information such as manager names and... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/cto-s-quiet-strategy-unlocking-client-information-secrets-hea3noa3u twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: CTO's Quiet Strategy: Unlocking Client Information Secrets | daily.dev og:description: A CTO describes a social engineering tactic where they pose as a company executive on client calls to extract sensitive information such as manager names and... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/cto-s-quiet-strategy-unlocking-client-information-secrets-hea3noa3u og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/hEa3noa3u.png og:image:alt: CTO's Quiet Strategy: Unlocking Client Information Secrets og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # CTO's Quiet Strategy: Unlocking Client Information Secrets **[The Serious CTO](https://daily.dev/sources/seriouscto)** · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A CTO describes a social engineering tactic where they pose as a company executive on client calls to extract sensitive information such as manager names and email addresses by asking seemingly innocuous questions. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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