Social engineering and digital technologies for the security of the social capital' development

Abstract

Social capital is transformed due to the digitalized environment built with the ICT expansion. The evolution of the social capital' forming and development reflects the new forms and models of communication, the extended possibilities of choice and of presence into the Web as a unique space of exchange. This article presents the theoretical approach to the analysis of behavior' regulation within the framework of social technologies implemented to the digital space. Social engineering represents an important factor of the violation of information security' rules, the IT-specialists attribute the majority of the crime in the sector to the insiders of private business companies and to the imprudence of individuals. The social capital can play the both positive and negative roles to assure information security issues, the social engineering can be in the contradiction with the tendencies of the social capital development, but the social technologies used are based on the social capital development.