Yes / Cybercrime is on the increase and attacks are becoming
ever more sophisticated. Organisations are investing huge sums of
money and vast resources in trying to establish effective and timely
countermeasures. This is still a game of catch up, where hackers
have the upper hand and potential victims are trying to produce
secure systems hardened against what feels like are inevitable
future attacks.
The focus so far has been on technology and not people and the
amount of resource allocated to countermeasures and research into
cyber security attacks follows the same trend. This paper adds to the
growing body of work looking at social engineering attacks and
therefore seeks to redress this imbalance to some extent. The
objective is to produce a model for social engineering that provides
a better understanding of the attack process such that improved and
timely countermeasures can be applied and early interventions
implemented.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:BRADFORD/oai:bradscholars.brad.ac.uk:10454/10702 |
| Date | January 2016 |
| Creators | Cullen, Andrea J., Armitage, Lorna |
| Source Sets | Bradford Scholars |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Conference paper, Accepted manuscript |
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