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January 1, 2025

The Science of Social Engineering – a Legal and Behavioral Perspective on Cybersecurity Awareness

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MSMonica SahniRKReva Kalra

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Research reveals cognitive biases in social engineering, highlighting the need for better cybersecurity policies and training.

Key Points

  • Social engineering attacks exploit human psychology, leading to over 80% of cyber intrusions being successful.
  • Key cognitive biases identified include trust manipulation and decision fatigue, which attackers leverage in phishing incidents.
  • The approach combines psychological experiments and analyses of business email compromise incidents to inform legal frameworks.
  • Proposes policies emphasizing targeted training and public-private collaboration to enhance cybersecurity awareness.

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Sahni et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68af7b127567bf4f94ff25d4https://doi.org/10.51204/zbornik_umkp_25134a
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