Summary
The broader impact of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project lies in its potential to significantly reduce the economic and emotional harm caused by social engineering cyber-attacks, which manipulate trust to collectively defraud millions of Americans of tens of billions of dollars each year. The growing asymmetry in the cost of executing such attacks, which are conducted by organized crime and nation-state actors, versus defending against them has created a critical vulnerability that not only threatens individuals, but also technology companies, financial institutions
