Unintentional Insider Threats: Social Engineering

Abstract

The research documented in this report seeks to advance the understanding of the unintentional insider threat (UIT) that derives from social engineering. The goals of this research are to collect data on additional UIT social engineering incidents to build a set of cases for the Management and Education of the Risk of Insider Threat (MERIT) database, and to analyze such cases to identify possible behavioral and technical patterns and precursors. The authors hope that this research will inform future research and development of UIT mitigation strategies.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2014
Accession Number
ADA592507

Entities

Organizations

  • Carnegie Mellon University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Cyber
  • Engineered Resilient Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Cognition
  • Cognitive Workload
  • Computer Networks
  • Computer Programming
  • Cybersecurity
  • Demography
  • Electronic Mail
  • Human Behavior
  • Information Processing
  • Information Science
  • Information Security
  • Information Systems
  • Insider Threats
  • Online Communications
  • Psychology
  • Social Media
  • Software Development

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  • Economics
  • Technical Research and Report Writing.