Title
PERSUADED: Fighting Social Engineering Attacks with a Serious Game.
Abstract
Social engineering is the clever manipulation of the human element to acquire information assets. While technical security of most critical systems is high, the systems remain vulnerable to attacks from social engineers. The challenge in defeating social engineering is that it is a deceptive process that exploits human beings. Methods employed in social engineering do not differ much from those used to perform traditional fraud. This implies the applicability of defense mechanisms against the latter to the context of social engineering. Taking this problem into consideration, we designed a serious game that trains people against social engineering using defense mechanisms of social psychology. The results of our empirical evaluation of the game indicate that the game is able to raise awareness for social engineering in an entertaining way.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1007/978-3-319-98385-1_8
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Keywords
Field
DocType
Security controls,Social psychology,Gamification
Internet privacy,Security controls,Computer security,Asset (computer security),Computer science,Social engineering (security),Exploit,Train
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
11033
0302-9743
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
5
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Dina Aladawy100.34
Kristian Beckers216431.93
Sebastian Pape31710.95