Jump to content

Draft:Active Social Engineering Defense

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


The Active Social Engineering Defense (ASED) program is a research initiative by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) aimed at developing automated defenses against social engineering attacks.

ASED involves continuous monitoring of staff behavior to detect anomalies that may indicate a social engineering attack. It combines human observation with technological tools to recognize and respond to such threats. Engaging the attacker can provide necessary evidence to characterize the attack as hostile, although this approach carries risks to the individual or organization's reputation.

One system developed under the ASED program is called Continuously Habituating Elicitation Strategies for Social Engineering Attacks (CHESS). The goal is to lead the attacker to reveal their own information and intentions rather than allowing them to obtain victims' personal information.[1][2][3][4][5]

Initatives

[edit]
  • PANACEA Personalized AutoNomous Agents Countering Social Engineering , includes over 150 participants from academia, government, and industry, focusing on detecting and defending against social engineering attacks in different communication channels[6]
  • COVID19 Large Scale Deception[7]
  • Integrated Data Driven Solutions (I2DS) Project[8]

Further reading

[edit]

References

[edit]

  1. ^ Ferguson, Bryan (November 17, 2018). "HRL Laboratories | News | Hacking Back at the Hackers". HRL Laboratories.
  2. ^ Dalton, Adam; Aghaei, Ehsan; Al-Shaer, Ehab; Bhatia, Archna; Castillo, Esteban; Cheng, Zhuo; Dhaduvai, Sreekar; Duan, Qi; Hebenstreit, Bryanna; Islam, Md Mazharul; Karimi, Younes; Masoumzadeh, Amir; Mather, Brodie; Santhanam, Sashank; Shaikh, Samira; Zemel, Alan; Strzalkowski, Tomek; Dorr, Bonnie J. (May 13, 2020). Bhatia, Archna; Shaikh, Samira (eds.). Active Defense Against Social Engineering: The Case for Human Language Technology. European Language Resources Association. pp. 1–8. ISBN 979-10-95546-39-9 – via ACLWeb.
  3. ^ "Active Social Engineering Defense (ASED)". GeeksforGeeks. September 10, 2022.
  4. ^ "Active Social Engineering Defense (ASED) - Federal Grant". www.federalgrants.com.
  5. ^ "Defense Technical Information Center".
  6. ^ https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/citations/AD1143840 https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/trecms/pdf/AD1143840.pdf
  7. ^ "USAspending.gov". February 13, 2025. Archived from the original on 13 February 2025.
  8. ^ "Defense Technical Information Center".