Determining Correlation Between Social Engineering Awareness and Becoming Victim of Social Engineering

Abstract

The purpose of social engineering is to hack into a person's security system and lure them in with luring human behavior. The art of social engineering, also known as human hacking, involves tricking employees and customers into disclosing their credentials - then using those credentials to gain access to networks or accounts. Social engineering attacks are difficult to protect against for various reasons. For one thing, they aren’t well documented. For another, social engineers are limited only by their imaginations. Regardless of the method of attack they use, social engineering is always unpredictable. The best thing you can do is remain vigilant, understand social engineers' motives and methods, and ensure ongoing security awareness within your organization to guard against the most common attacks. We survey Bangladeshi people to know how much they are aware about social engineering attacks and at the same time what is the correlation between awareness and becoming the victim of social engineering attack. It was observed through our research that there is positive correlation between these two variables though not too much.