Essential Awareness of Social Engineering Attacks for Digital Security

Authors

  • Tanu Manocha   New Delhi Institute of Management
  • Vinita Sharma   New Delhi Institute of Management

Keywords:

Social engineering, cyber security, pandemic, COVID 19, Work from home

Abstract

In the current time of pandemic when almost every next person is working from home by using Internet technologies, so it has become necessary for all organizations to ensure that their employees have a basic knowledge of social engineering along with information security. In current global situation, social engineering is considered to be one of the biggest security threats. They should be aware of the kind of threats emerging from social engineering attacks to save their secret organizational data. This study is an attempt to check the level of awareness of social engineering attacks among professionals who are working online. A survey of employees, who are working in Delhi NCR in different organizations and industries, was conducted. The results of the survey revealed the fact of awareness employees have for social engineering and protective policies. The study also analyzed the impact of demographic profile of employees based on their age, gender, education and internet usage on social engineering attacks.

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Manocha, T., & Sharma, V. (2021). Essential Awareness of Social Engineering Attacks for Digital Security. Journal of Applied Management- Jidnyasa, 13(1), 25–40. Retrieved from http://simsjam.net/index.php/Jidnyasa/article/view/165033

Issue

Volume 13, Issue 1, January-June 2021

Section

Research Papers

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