Question

discuss any three psychological approaches to launch an information security attack.

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The Information system is mostly with respect to people, information, specific facilities, and applications. Such is called as the information assets and information security would help in protecting the assets and keeping those safe from attacks. It is mostly the confidentiality, availability, and that of integrity which might get compromised and are to be maintained safety measures. The current cyber attacks are referred to as advanced persistent threat or otherwise known as targeted attacks. Such attacks would mostly play tactics with users psychologically or check the behavioral pattern to invade into the systems. Security is more of a behavioral issue than a technological problem. With the help of behavioral science and psychological hint, the attacker can invade into the systems and achieve their goal.

Some of the approaches are as mentioned below:

1) Password protection: Users mostly tend to use easy passwords and use the same password all over which leads to the risk of attacks

2) Phishing Trap: This happens when people fall prey to the frauds of tech-based attention seekers and in turn trick people and ask them for password and personal information

3) Connected devices: Though this has been a boon to have all the devices connected but this has also made the life easier for the hackers to have access to all the connected devices if one device is exposed.

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