Social Engineering and Technical Security Fusion

Ensuring the secure transmission of sensitive messages over unsecured networks has been a staggering problem in the face of scientists and engineers in recent times. This is exaggerated by developments in cryptanalysis, steganalysis and computing powers at the disposal of hackers. In this paper, a message security scheme that is based on social engineering and technical security fusion is proposed. The proposed scheme makes use of traditional cryptographic algorithms and LSB steganography in addition to ideas pooling from the ever advancing field of social engineering. The provided discussion and numerical analysis showcase the ability of the proposed scheme to fend off cyber attacks.