{"id":167069,"date":"2023-07-07T10:24:45","date_gmt":"2023-07-07T15:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/the-role-of-ai-in-social-engineering"},"modified":"2023-07-07T10:24:45","modified_gmt":"2023-07-07T15:24:45","slug":"the-role-of-ai-in-social-engineering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/the-role-of-ai-in-social-engineering","title":{"rendered":"The Role Of AI In Social Engineering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-role-of-ai-in-social-engineering.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Managing Director of Cyber Security Consulting at <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.verizon.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.verizon.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" aria-label=\"Verizon\"><em>Verizon<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s no surprise firewalls and encryption are instrumental to help defend against cyberattacks, but those tools can\u2019t defend against one of the largest cybersecurity threats: people.<\/p>\n<p>Social engineering\u2014manipulating individuals to divulge sensitive information\u2014is on the rise, even as organizations increasingly implement cybersecurity education and training. While social engineering already poses a challenge for organizations, AI might make it even more of a threat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Managing Director of Cyber Security Consulting at Verizon. It\u2019s no surprise firewalls and encryption are instrumental to help defend against cyberattacks, but those tools can\u2019t defend against one of the largest cybersecurity threats: people. Social engineering\u2014manipulating individuals to divulge sensitive information\u2014is on the rise, even as organizations increasingly implement cybersecurity education and training. While social [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,32,1625,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-education","category-encryption","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}