Investigating The Effect of Social Engineering Techniques on Employees Vulnerability(Case study: Tehran Municipality Employees)
Journal Title: Electronic and Cyber Defense - Year 2023, Vol 11, Issue 1
Abstract
Social engineering is the art of deceiving people in a way that no use of force and threat, something to do or provide that information to social engineer . Social engineering can follow self-interest or organizational or national interest. Hackers, criminals, spies, saboteurs and ... all use social engineering to achieve their goals .social engineer uses Various techniques. In this study, the effect of this techniques on the vulnerability of people looked at the combined method (qualitative and quantitative ) to measure this effect .First, various social engineering techniques as well as their vulnerability conducted by reviewing previous research and the interviewing with the experts in the field of engineering social was obtained and different techniques in a variety of technical, social, physical and technical â social were categorized. Afterwards in quantitative stage, By creating a questionnaire and various Items In the form of Likert scale and Provide the questionnaire to the target community(Employees of Tehran Municipality) The degree of vulnerability of people to a variety of social engineering techniques was obtained. It was found vulnerability of the target population is more than to the techniques of technical, social, technical â social and physical respectively . to prevent social engineering, human âdriven and technology âbased solutions were proposed that human âcentered mainly on training personnel and IT solutions based on the provision of the right equipment, computers and creating a right information access cycle in organizations .
Authors and Affiliations
Seyyedhasan Hoseini,nasim majidi gahrodi,
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