Hypothesis: Educating individuals on the dangers of phishing and other cyber attacks can diminish the impact these attacks have on businesses

Proposal Outline

Introduction

• Young, R., Zhang, L., & Prybutok, V. (2007). Hacking into the Minds of Hackers. Information Systems Management, 24(4), 281–287.
• How attackers are using targeted spear phishing to evade cybersecurity defenses’. (2021, November 30). PC Quest, NA.
• Research Hypothesis

Literature Review

• Phishing Information

Gupta, B., Tewari, A., Jain, A., & Agrawal, D. (2017). Fighting against phishing attacks: state of the art and future challenges. Neural Computing & Applications, 28(12), 3629–3654.

Preimesberger, C. (2016). 5 Common Phishing Attacks and 5 Ways Not to Get Hooked. EWeek, 1.

• Preventing Against these Attacks

FLEISHMAN, G. (2021). How to protect yourself from phishing emails. Macworld – Digital Edition, 38(8), 97–100.

Warmack, R. (2011, September). Countering Cyber terrorism. Software World, 42(5), 12+.

• Educating Others in Order to Prevent Attacks

Wallace, A. (2019). Phishing Scams: Don’t Take the Bait. Tech & Learning, 39(6), 34–36.

Goel, S., Williams, K., & Dincelli, E. (2017). Got Phished? Internet Security and Human Vulnerability. Journal of the Association for Information Systems, 18(1), 22–44.

Jensen, M. L., Dinger, M., Wright, R. T., & Thatcher, J. B. (2017). Training to Mitigate Phishing Attacks Using Mindfulness Techniques. Journal of Management Information Systems, 34(2), 597–626

Methodology

• Explain what phishing is and its dangers
• Present ways to prevent phishing and other attacks
• Present ways to better educate others about these attacks so they will be well equipped to identify the attacks

Discussion

• What are the most common ways to spot a phishing attack in your email?
• What are good methods to prevent these phishing attacks?
• More information on the motivation of these attackers