Understanding Social Engineers Strategies from the Perspective of Sun-Tzu Philosophy

Abstract

Human remains susceptible to manipulations, and social engineers are expert of these techniques. To better understand the attack and defense strategies of social engineering attack, there is a need to map social engineering strategies with the war strategies. We can find plenty of war strategist and books on war strategies. By mapping the knowledge, we may get unique ways of defense and can further identify social engineering attack patterns. In this study, we have mapped the principles suggested by Sun-Tzu with social engineering attacks and further mentioned the initial results (by showing examples for each case). We aim to extend this work and further verify the effectiveness of this strategy in near future.