CYCRJun 23, 2021

Social engineering: Concepts, Techniques and Security Countermeasures

arXiv:2107.14082v11 citations
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It provides a foundational overview for cybersecurity professionals and researchers, but it is incremental as it synthesizes existing knowledge without introducing novel methods or data.

This report tackles the problem of understanding social engineering in cybersecurity by explaining its concepts, techniques, and countermeasures based on academic research, without presenting new experimental results or numerical findings.

The purpose of this report is to research the topic called Social Engineering in Cyber Security and present the explanation of the meaning, concepts, techniques, and security countermeasures of Social Engineering based on factual academic research.

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