Cyber Security And Social Engineering

This paper analyzes the social engineering technology and the social engineering tools that are used to test the human element with regard to its capabilities and limitations in the areas of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The analysis covers Social engineering Toolkits usefulness, cost, and implementation complexity and how its effectiveness can be enhanced.

“110 million Americans saw their identities compromised in 2014” Gault argues, adding that 110 million is one in every two Americans (2). With new technological inventions, such as the cloud, which allows remote access to stored information, there are “too many vulnerabilities hackers can exploit” (Gault 7). Cybersecurity has been breached due to the lack of integrity in the system. There is an acute focus on encryption in the industry with the belief that it is the key in ensuring confidentiality and ultimately, cybersecurity. Meanwhile, the industry “rarely” addresses integrity (Gault 17). Gault firmly argues that “the system is broken” because of the lack of integrity in the system. Confidentiality, while important, is not integral in preventing and providing solutions for data breach and theft. The current system solution for cybersecurity threat is dominated by a “lock-and-key system”; preventative, but once access is achieved, accessibility becomes much more effortless for others (Gault 21). Gault suggests an integrity solution that acts more “like an alarm”, a method focused on monitoring suspicious activity on online databases and platforms that then sends an alert when suspicious activity is detected. (22). Gault argues the loss of integrity is apparent in the cybersecurity industry because of the method in which prevents unauthorized access and thievery does not include elements of integrity. The

This paper introduces the impact cybersecurity has on our society and the ways it has impacted our lives. It will further discuss three different industries and how identity threats, and hacking incidents could be reduced from the use of secure softwares. The three industries that will be primarily focused are the education system, banks, and healthcare and how cybersecurity could be improved to further prevent cases of hacking and cyber breech. The current security software and the future of cybersecurity softwares will be discussed in terms of the industries and how it can be

Significance: This topic is very significant to my audience because of the rise of cyber attacks at individual to national level. Ignorance of social engineering attack methods makes on a weak link where social engineering attacks can compromise individual, company, state and federal records

The internet has millions of networks and websites that require one’s personal information. Each personal account holds a privacy setting that should guarantee confidentiality but that is not always the case. The advances of technology leads to situations that people are unprepared for such as hacking personal data. Some may believe their information is secure online because companies are always improving security. However, society will always be faced with individuals who will want to steal information. Hackers use private information for monetary value and

In this day and age, the risks of cyber-attacks have seemingly become more prevalent through aggressions done by both foreign and domestic terrorists acting out in response towards either religious, political, or financial consciences. These attacks consist of hackers possessing abilities that can alter digital perspectives of banking and also the capability to adjust physical aspect like water systems and even nuclear power plants. The relevance in emphasizing the importance of cyber-security is directly related to the growing number of foreign attacks done unto the American people and how these attacks must be further met by improved security in order to combat cyber termism from causing any more harm. To begin researching on how these attacks may be vanquished, one must first relate back to the source of these strikes− this pertain to either the countries or groups responsible−as well as the effects of these attacks of American lifestyles and the potential human security faults that correlate with them. Lastly, the role in both Government and private business must be looked at as well in order to make sure that the privacy among American citizens and their identity are being handled safely and with the utmost security available in order to counter attacks done by these elite hacking groups.

Over the last few years, there is one factor that has been prevalent in the majority of data security breaches. It is the manipulation of the organizations employee’s into providing the hacker the private or confidential information without realizing it. The use of social engineering, and fraud in data breaches has been steadily increasing over the last few years. It is the job of a security professional to ensure that network data remains confidential, has integrity, and is available. All three of which can be compromised by the risk of social engineering.

Both the government and the private sector have been aware of the threat social engineering poses to information security since the 1980s, but it has only gained public notoriety within the last decade. Still, while today 's corporations may be prepared for a raid by anonymous cyber-terrorists striking from overseas, they continue to turn a blind eye to the dangers of socially engineered attacks. Thanks to a combination of corporate oversight and poor employee training, hackers with zero coding knowledge are able to penetrate their secured buildings and wreak havoc. In order to combat this vulnerability, the Department of Homeland Security should take an active role in the operational security of major American businesses through extensive auditing and employee training.

When talking about cybercrime, we need to understand why it has become a big issue and how it affects all of us and our daily lives. In today’s society, a considerable amount of our daily activities are done over the internet including some on public sites such as social media and others behind password protected portals such as our online bank accounts. We communicate, shop, socialize, and control or manage most of our devices over the internet. With all this information available via the internet it becomes a treasure chest for cyber criminals filled with valuable information that can be stolen. Cybercrime is a

This term applies to an email seeming to have come from a honest to goodness business, a bank, or charge card organization asking for "verification" of information and cautioning of some desperate outcomes on the off chance that it is not done. The letter for the most part contains a connection to a fake website page that looks authentic with company logos and content and has a structure that may ask for username, passwords, card numbers or pin detail.

However, very little existing research has studied the relationship of people to information technology networks. This work plans to contribute to the body of research that exists about social engineering to try to define and understand the problem of social engineering so eventually solutions can exist that will increase the security of knowledge and eliminate the security hole people so often create.

In today’s generation, the complications that come along with cyber security are no longer just for the technologically advanced population; it is everybody’s concern. Whether you work in arts, military, media, and even business – this is an essential part of our lives that we should inspect carefully. A report published by Researcher Riley Walters states that a survey by the Ponemon Institute showed “the average cost of cybercrime for U.S. retail stores more than doubled from 2013 to an annual average cost per company of successful cyber-attacks increased to $20.8 million in financial services, $14.5 million in the technology sector, and $12.8 million in communications industries.” There were cyber-attacks earlier this year which led to the leak of eBay employee log-ins, allowing access to 233 million eBay accounts. Cyber-attacks like these are almost impossible to detect, and there are no measures to recover from them. With the increasing number of computers, cybercrime is also on the rise, hence close attention is recommended to protect personal information.

Social engineering is the practice of utilizing known information to misrepresent oneself for the purpose of broaching a company’s security. The popularity of social engineering has a method of hacking is exploding. In the 2013 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report it was

As the world becomes more engrained with technology. The growing threats and security vulnerabilities propose a great concern to keep our digital information private and out of the hands of thieves, hackers, and abusers. According to David Donahoo quoted in the Liberty Journal, “The more information that is available in the cyber world, the larger the pie becomes as far as a cyber criminal is concerned.” (Menard, 2015) In other words, information security is becoming a vital intrinsic absolute when we consider the luxury our technology has brought us on a daily basis.

Social engineering is a non-technical method of intrusion that hackers uses in which Instead of technical attacks on systems, humans with access to information are the target for social engineers, influencing them into disclose confidential information or even into carrying out their malicious attacks through influence and persuasion. It is the art of getting users to mutually share information systems. In today 's scenario, it is one of the greatest threats that organizations