A Literature Survey and Analysis on Social Engineering Defense Mechanisms and Infosec Policies

Social engineering attacks can be severe and hard to detect. Therefore, prevent such attacks, organizations should aware of social defense mechanisms security policies. To that end, the authors developed a taxonomy mechanisms, designed survey measure employee awareness these proposed model Engineering InfoSec Policies (SE-IPs), incorporation level SE-IPs. After analyzing data from first survey, found more than half employees are not attacks. The paper also analyzed second set data, which on average, incorporated just over fifty percent identified formal Such worrisome results show vulnerable serious steps need taken elevate against emerging threats.