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Social Engineering Attack Graph for Security Risk Assessment: Social Engineering Attack Graph framework(SEAG)

  • Kim, Jun Seok (Graduate School of Information Security, Korea University) ;
  • Kang, Hyunjae (Graduate School of Information Security, Korea University) ;
  • Kim, Jinsoo (Agency for Defense Development) ;
  • Kim, Huy Kang (Graduate School of Information Security, Korea University)
  • Received : 2018.08.30
  • Accepted : 2018.10.22
  • Published : 2018.11.30
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Abstract

Social engineering attack means to get information of Social engineering attack means to get information of opponent without technical attack or to induce opponent to provide information directly. In particular, social engineering does not approach opponents through technical attacks, so it is difficult to prevent all attacks with high-tech security equipment. Each company plans employee education and social training as a countermeasure to prevent social engineering. However, it is difficult for a security officer to obtain a practical education(training) effect, and it is also difficult to measure it visually. Therefore, to measure the social engineering threat, we use the results of social engineering training result to calculate the risk by system asset and propose a attack graph based probability. The security officer uses the results of social engineering training to analyze the security threats by asset and suggests a framework for quick security response. Through the framework presented in this paper, we measure the qualitative social engineering threats, collect system asset information, and calculate the asset risk to generate probability based attack graphs. As a result, the security officer can graphically monitor the degree of vulnerability of the asset's authority system, asset information and preferences along with social engineering training results. It aims to make it practical for companies to utilize as a key indicator for establishing a systematic security strategy in the enterprise.

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Fig. 1. The communication model of social engineering

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Fig. 2. The procedure of social engineering attack response training

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Fig. 3. Generation of the attack graph

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Fig. 4. Overview of the Social Engineering Attack Graph framework(SEAG)

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Fig. 5. Example of network topology

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Fig. 6. Example of attack graph generation

Table 1. Overview of related work

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Table 2. Classification of social engineering attack

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Table 3. Social engineering scenario

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Table 4. Social engineering vulnerability

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Table 5. Example of social engineering training results and risks

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