Understanding People's awareness towards social engineering with survey

ABSTRACT

The world is recovering from Covid-19, and along with that it has brought the zeal to use the digital media, concepts like work from home, connecting the whole world using applications and social media. However, with good things follow bad and we observe a lot of people being affected by social engineering attack via multiple means be it as elementary as an unfamiliar person calling us to ask us about our day or complicated and puzzling as someone acting like the victim's senior. In some cases, people are aware of the process but are unaware of the terms they are victimized with others do not know many kinds of social engineering attacks. Therefore, it is imperative for an organization and an individual that they are aware of how Social Engineering is carried out. In this paper, we represent the survey filled by more than 100 people from diverse age groups and work profiles seeking their views on the attack and knowledge about social engineering. © 2022 IEEE.