Social Engineering Protection Strategies and Their Relationship to Reducing Threats to Family Security in a Sample of Female Heads of Household

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1 food science- Faculty of Agriculture Zagazig University, Egypt

2 Faculty of Agriculture- Zagazig University

Abstract

The aim of the research is to study awareness of strategies to protect against social engineering and their relationship to reducing threats to family security in a sample of female heads of household. The study tools (Family General Data Form, Social Engineering Protection Strategies Questionnaire, Family Security Threat Questionnaire) were applied by interviewing an objective shell sample consisting of 312 female heads of household in Orientale Governorate. He followed the analytical descriptive curriculum and statistically analyzed and processed the data using the Spss program.

95.2% of female heads of household were subjected to cyberattacks, The highest ratio is 60.9% for those with low awareness of social engineering protection strategies, compared to 15.1% for those with high awareness. 49% of female heads of household suffer from high threats to family security,. The existence of a statistically negative adverse correlation at 0 .001 and 0. 005 between the level of awareness of female heads of household of strategies to protect against social engineering with their axes and threats to family security with their interlocutors.

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