Aspectual Analysis

Aspectual Human Performance Variability in Social Engineering Attacks

Abstract:

Most of the influence and persuasion techniques used in social engineering have been documented across many domains, including cybersecurity, and have been shown to rely on similar effect mechanisms used in areas such as marketing, scams, and street cons. This paper shows that, while these attacks are explained in terms of the social and psychological effect mechanisms, the aspectual lens provides a more nuanced understanding of human performance variability implicated in social engineering. The aspectual lens provides a comprehensive analytical and ontological framing, and hints at aspectually informed measures for mitigating social engineering attacks and dampening the said human performance variability.

Published In

Volume 23, Issue 1

Written By

Mamello Thinyane

Journal of Information Warfare

The definitive publication for the best and latest research and analysis on information warfare, information operations, and cyber crime. Available in traditional hard copy or online.

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