Social Engineering: A Technique for Managing Human Behavior

Abstract

Social engineering uses human behavior instead of technical measures for exploring systems, different data, things that are of any profitable use. This piece of research gives a briefing on how human mind is capable of invading into crucial systems or capturing useful information regarding people or organizations. Certain defense mechanisms and preventive measures are also covered in this paper. Social engineering is a human behavior based technique for hacking & luring people for sneaking into someone’s security system. Since social engineering relies heavily on human behavior, no hardware or equipment can be made to stop the losses, which arise as a result of human interaction. Therefore, certain good practices are suggested.Moreover, the purpose is to create awareness and study the impact of social engineering on the society.