Cyber Security Threat, it’s Risks and Susceptibilities, in the Global Perspective

Abstract

Cyber threats have become a big problem for the world today and out of many, the most prominent in this respect are social engineering and cyber warfare. Considering cyber security, social engineering accomplishes its malicious goals by captivating human weaknesses. Social engineering is a grim security threat to nations, users, data and its operations and technological infrastructure. It has numerous conceptual flaws (for instance conflicting conceptual intentions, nebulous conceptual boundaries, confusing instances, abuse etc.) thus creating a negative impact on the holistic understanding of social engineering attacks. Cyber warfare is the new threat the nation state system is facing, and social engineering is one of the ways to achieve that. In this paper, a systematic literature review is conducted and the conceptual progression and technical development as a result of social engineering and cyber warfare is analysed systematically, along with measures to evade such attacks. User awareness as a solution to this camouflaged attack is also suggested. This research, then, aims to address these conceptual problems and propose a new and fresh understanding of social engineering and cyber warfare in cybersecurity (SEiCS). The literature review leads to conclude that cyber security not only needs to be monitored from technological perspective, but a more holistic approach is required to gauge its defence.