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Intent-Based Protection Against Social Engineering Atacks

Unmatched protection against evolving Social Engineering attacks crafted by humans, or powered by AI.

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Problem

Social Engineering Is the Gateway to Enterprise Threats 

Social engineering is the cornerstone of modern cyberattacks. It's not just a tactic within Business Email Compromise (BEC)—it's the foundation for phishing, ransomware, and account compromise. Attackers exploit human trust, emotions, and context to manipulate victims into taking action—whether it’s clicking a phishing link, opening an malware attachment, or transferring funds.

These attacks often arrive as harmless-looking emails with no obvious indicators of compromise. A fake invoice request, a vendor follow-up, or an internal HR message can be the initial lure, bypassing traditional detection systems that rely on known malicious indicators.

In phishing, social engineering tricks users into divulging credentials. In ransomware, it persuades them to open weaponized attachments. And in BEC, it drives fraudulent transactions through carefully crafted business emails.

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Social Engineering + AI = Precision Manipulation at Scale

Generative AI is supercharging social engineering, transforming it from an occasional threat into an overwhelming risk. Attackers can now exploit human psychology with unprecedented scale, precision, and variation—turning every email into a potential weapon.

Exploiting human emotion and trust means these attacks work—and the rise of Gen AI means the targets aren’t just executives anymore.

Frontline employees, customer service reps, finance teams, and HR staff—anyone responding to emails as part of their job—is now a target. AI-generated attacks touch on emotions, urgency, and trust, bypassing traditional defenses designed to spot static patterns, not human manipulation.

This isn’t just an evolution—it’s an arms race.

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Scale

FraudGPT, GhostGPT, and DeepSeek empower threat actors to generate an infinite volume of personalized attacks. AI can spin up thousands of convincing emails in minutes, tailored to each recipient’s role, company, and responsibilities.

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Precision

Threat actors use generative models to mimic business communications with alarming accuracy. Phishing emails, and emails with malware attachments now look like authentic vendor updates, payment requests from finance, or shipment confirmations from trusted suppliers.

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Variance

Traditional defenses rely on identifying known patterns. But AI introduces endless variations—changing tone, urgency, and structure based on the target. designed to catch repetitive phrasing, and raising no red flags to employees.

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SolutionAI

Intent-Based Security to Stop Human and AI-Powered Social Engineering 

Since social engineering attacks exploit trust, urgency, and human behavior, we can't rely on people as the last line of defense. Detecting these threats means understanding not just what an email says—but what it means, and how it aligns with known threat actor tactics.

That’s why we built NACETM, with a novel set of features designed to detect manipulation—before a link is clicked or a request is followed. NACETM understands the intent of an email through multi-layered semantic analysis. By analyzing the contextual relationship between intent, tone, and SMTP metadata, it uncovers the subtle signals attackers use to influence employee action.

NACETM understands intent to detect what social engineering really is: manipulation in disguise.

Pre-Trained Classifier

NACETM is fine-tuned on years of linguistic cues, tone, sentiment, and emotional triggers commonly exploited in social engineering attacks. This means we stop threats immediately upon deployment, with no learning time, and for all employees.

Thematic Analysis

NACETM provides thematic insights by generating a structured representation of topics, phrases, and subtopics to truly comprehend intent. This identifies the underlying themes, even when variations occur, adding an extra layer of detection for Gen AI iteration.

Zero-Shot Classification

Generative AI can introduce semantic variations of emails while keeping the same intent. By harnessing the power of an LLM, NACETM identifies these semantic variations through zero-shot classification, detecting any variants generated by AI.

Similarity Analysis

NACETM computes semantic embeddings for every message and compares them to pre-stored threat actor patterns—using cosine similarity to detect social engineering tactics.  NACETM is trained on attacks, to recognize attacks, even as they evolve and change.

Why Inception Cyber for Social Engineering

AI-powered threats demand AI-powered defense.

InceptionCyber is leading the way in stopping the next generation of Social Engineering attacks—before they reach your employees' inboxes.

Intent-Based Analysis

Social engineering attacks are often subtle, relying on tone, timing, and emotional cues. NACETM uses semantic and thematic analysis to understand the purpose and meaning behind a message—whether it’s to create urgency, build trust, or impersonate a colleague. By understanding intent, not just content, NACETM can detect manipulation before a user takes action.

Zero-Shot Classification

Human and AI-generated social engineering campaigns often vary their language across geographies, industries, and employee roles. NACETM uses zero-shot classification to identify previously unseen manipulation attempts—without retraining. Whether it’s a new social lure or a regional variation of a common scam, NACETM recognizes the pattern from intent and context.

10 Minutes to Value

Since we don't need to build deep employee datasets—which take other vendors 30 days or more—our NACETM pre-trained model begins stopping threats as soon as it is deployed.

Read how NACETM is Stopping BEC

See our walkthroughs and step-by-step breakdowns of real-world Social Engineering attacks, and how Inception Cyber NACETM stops them when other technologies can't.

See What Social Engineering Attacks Your Tools are Missing

Whether you're looking to add defense in depth, replace a legacy secure email gateway, or just see whether employee behavior-based tools are actually as good as they promise, we welcome every chance to go head-to-head with the previous generations of email security.

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Inception Cyber Neural Analysis and Correlation Engine (NACETM) : Leading the next generation of threat prevention in an AI-driven world