Technical knowledge won't protect you from social engineering because attackers bypass logic by triggering fear and urgency. Real defense means managing your emotions and sharpening attention, not memorizing security procedures.
The technical knowledge about something does not build the resilience because the whole point of social engineering is the fact that you override logical analytical thinking and you move into emotional reactivity. No matter how much logical analytical information I have, the whole point is to override that and, and harness my emotional reactivity. So we have to target emotional reactivity. So attention and focus, situational awareness, threat perception levels. We also have something that's very fundamental, which is emotional regulation. Because fear, urgency, anxiety— these are the three things that are the emotions that drive max, most effective behavior change, especially from a manipulation standpoint, social engineering standpoint.
The Future of Cybersecurity: How AI Is Exploiting Technical, Behavioral, and Process Vulnerabilities
