The following research proposal investigates the vulnerabilities that make small businesses susceptible to cyber-attacks. This proposed research will take suggestions and evaluate other previous similar research to make the study’s performance high quality. One hundred small businesses with under one hundred employees will be randomly selected to take the designed questionnaire about certain aspects of cyber-security. Note that half of the companies will be from the United States and the other half from Europe to gain cultural diversity perspectives. Analysis methods, including ANOVA, will determine the reliability of the questionnaire’s results. Overall, the ultimate goal of the proposed research study is to identify a common vulnerability from the results of the questionnaires and create a generalized statement that can be applied to all small businesses to prevent future cyber-attacks.
