Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Tezin Türü: Yüksek Lisans
Tezin Yürütüldüğü Kurum: Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi, Türkiye
Tezin Onay Tarihi: 2015
Tezin Dili: İngilizce
Öğrenci: Adem Tosun
Danışman: NAZİFE BAYKAL
Özet:Many organizations have been seeking for comprehensive and applicable security policies to regulate their security aspects. As it is a well-known issue, the weakest link of chain in Cyber security is human being and it cannot be measured easily as its being intangible. Organizations may invest millions of dollars to build technically secure systems by installing high level trusted software programs or devices. History has shown that these kind of measures neither has been that much successful or effective in protecting the systems nor prevented social engineering kinds of attacks which may lead to a compromised system without any need to lose much time and risk for a hacker. The purpose of this thesis is to investigate which successful tactic and techniques are successfully being used to compromise systems by manipulating or hacking human software rather than software systems and find out results of these attacks. In addition, the weakness of human software will be analyzed and dominant factors will be figured out. At the end of this thesis, how security policies should be made, which issues better be considered in addition to technical solutions and what the most weaknesses of participants will be revealed to provide a higher level secure systems for organizations. The effects and popularity of social engineering attacks will also be discussed at the end of the study and some countermeasures will be given to managers to prevent such social engineering attacks towards their workers.