Ernst Hoenig

Social Engineering in Cyber Crime: Trainings Concept to Prevent Social Engineering Attacks in the Context of Cyber Crime Ernst Hoenig

Information Technology has an integral part in our modern society. With the emerging of the new technology comes a new type of crime. This new type of crime is referred as Cyber Crime. In certain types of Cyber Crime, the successful manipulation, respectively "Social Engineering" of people plays an important role. In order to prevent Social Engineering attacks this book contains an universal trainings concept. The trainings concept is based on three main pillars: The Analyses of the Psychological Factors, The Cyber Crime Aspects and The Analysis of the Didactics. The output of all three analytical steps are resulting in the trainings concept In order to make the trainings concept more visual and to give examples for the key elements (training methods), the concept is applied on a fictive company. This company works in the field of Biomedical Engineering.