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Social Engineering Attack Simulation

Social Engineering Attack Simulation is a methodological construct within cybersecurity assessment that systematically replicates adversarial social engineering tactics to evaluate organizational vulnerabilities by deliberately testing human, procedural, and technical defenses in controlled, ethically governed scenarios.

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2017–2026

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Social engineering attack examples, templates and scenarios

Francois Mouton, Louise Leenen, Hein S. Venter · Computers & Security · 2016 · 187 citations

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Gaining Access with Social Engineering: An Empirical Study of the Threat

Michael Workman · Information Systems Security · 2007 · 146 citations · Full text

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A Multivocal Literature Review on Growing Social Engineering Based Cyber-Attacks/Threats During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Challenges and Prospective Solutions

Mohammad Hijji, Gulzar Alam · IEEE Access · 2021 · 125 citations · Full text

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Social Engineering Attacks Prevention: A Systematic Literature Review

Wenni Syafitri, Zarina Shukur, Umi Asma’ Mokhtar et al. · IEEE Access · 2022 · 119 citations · Full text

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The persuasion and security awareness experiment: reducing the success of social engineering attacks

Jan-Willem Bullée, Lorena Montoya, Wolter Pieters et al. · Journal of Experimental Criminology · 2015 · 76 citations · Full text

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Authors

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  1. MV
    Maxim V. Abramov

    St Petersburg University, Russia

    2 publications · 28 citations

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  2. AA
    Abdullah Algarni

    Queensland University of Technology, Australia

    2 publications · 29 citations

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  3. AA
    Artur Azarov

    Financial University, Russia

    2 publications · 28 citations

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  4. BÖ
    Büşra Özdenizci

    Işık University, Türkiye

    1 publications · 22 citations

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  5. YT
    Yu‐Chu Tian

    Queensland University of Technology, Australia

    1 publications · 12 citations

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Institutions

41

  1. University of Auckland

    Auckland, New Zealand

    2 h-index

    4 publications

    192 citations

  2. Queensland University of Technology

    Brisbane, Australia

    2 h-index

    5 publications

    65 citations

  3. Gebze Technical University

    Gebze, Türkiye

    1 h-index

    2 publications

    44 citations

  4. Graphic Era University

    Dehradun, India

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    70 citations

  5. Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies du numérique

    Le Chesnay-Rocquencourt, France

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    21 citations

  6. Cornell University

    Ithaca, United States

    1 h-index

    2 publications

    34 citations

  7. IBM (India)

    Bengaluru, India

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    12 citations

  8. Institute of Management Technology

    Ghaziabad, India

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    12 citations

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Venues

  1. IEEE Access

    2 publications · 244 citations

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  3. International Journal of Information Security and Privacy

    IJISP · 1 publications · 20 citations

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  4. Information and Control Systems

    1 publications · 18 citations

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  5. Electronic workshops in computing

    1 publications · 15 citations

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