Abstract: Social engineering attacks are by far the tremendously hard forms of cybersecurity and data privacy attacks since they focus on manipulating humans to become the weakest link in security. As per security data breach reports the existing security techniques are more focused into technology forgetting humans as the weak link in the security chain. As evidenced by the fact that penetration testing reports in today cyberspace keep proving hackers are gaining access to company networks mostly through social engineering attacks. In this research paper, we are going to assess various forms of social engineering attack concepts and their impact on organizations. The research will further identify attack stages and propose enterprise security framework to mitigate socially engineered attacks through building human firewall within organizations in Botswana. The proposed outcome of this research is the enterprise security framework to establish secure cyberspace through the creation of a human firewall within organizations and secure their digital assets from social engineering attacks in the wild in Botswana. The framework will provide security guidelines and cloud training platform to assist employees to be more aware while online. Furthermore, the framework will help organizations to build more secure human firewall through security assessment survey generated to provide graphical presentation report that can be used by security auditors to mitigate social engineering attacks in Botswana through effective security training and awareness while online. Thus the creation of a human firewall to fight against social engineering attacks can only be achieved through awareness and making use of technology to simulate real-life phishing camping within the workforce to filter weak link within employees in the security chain.
Keywords: Social Engineering, Human Firewall, Vulnerability, Exploitation, Cyber security, Hacker, Victim.
Title: Human firewall enterprise security framework to mitigate social engineering attacks within organizations in Botswana
Author: June Jeremiah
International Journal of Computer Science and Information Technology Research
ISSN 2348-1196 (print), ISSN 2348-120X (online)
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