All posts by Mark Ray

About Mark Ray

I am a middle aged man trying to find my way in an increasingly complex world. Despite the ever-changing landscape of life, I commonly find myself projecting a stoic reminder to colleagues and classmates that you only get something out of it if you give back. Find humor in the common and purpose in adversity, then let the cards fall where they may.

Ramping up to complete proposal – Flowchart, hypothesis, and outline

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Flowchart:   Hypothesis: Users that are introducing Internet of Things (IoT) devices onto their home network do so without considering device security. This is not a reflection of negligence, but rather a deficit in understanding their risks. Exposing a group of current IoT adopters to material that reveals vulnerabilities and warns of the personal risks … Continue reading Ramping up to complete proposal – Flowchart, hypothesis, and outline →

Additional searches providing added insight, annotated bibliographies, and thesis

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Searches This week I performed a few new searches with terms that I found reoccurring in articles that I have found over the past several weeks to see if I could possibly find new relevant research to further my understanding of what answers are currently available pertaining to my research topic, “What do consumers understand … Continue reading Additional searches providing added insight, annotated bibliographies, and thesis →

Subject Term and Citation Tracking searches

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  In continuing my searches related to my research topic of “What do consumers understand about the steps required to secure their IoT devices?” I learned from the queries that I performed last week and refined them further with a Subject Term search that I felt would provide relevant results. From one of the articles … Continue reading Subject Term and Citation Tracking searches →

Detailed search queries for more refined results

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Upon a good deal though as to my primary research topic, I have decided that it would be prudent to fall back on my secondary research topic of “What do consumers understand about the steps required to secure their IoT devices?” I searched the Computer Source database for the subject term “Consumer protection” AND “Cybersecurity” … Continue reading Detailed search queries for more refined results →

Simple searches to further my research goals

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I performed a basic search on the Computer Science Collection database for the term “Cybersecurity”, which returned results for 12,026 academic journal articles. Within this same database I searched for “Internet of things”, which returned results for 2,534 academic journal articles. I then searched the same database for “Consumer protection” and that term returned 660 … Continue reading Simple searches to further my research goals →

Consumer device vulnerabilities and efforts to secure them

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My initial research idea was focusing in on the tangible fears of a Russian Cyber Attack in response to recent international sanctions. I have further narrowed down that topic to focus on if, and how, the devices that we own and operate as consumers may put us at personal and national risk. My primary research … Continue reading Consumer device vulnerabilities and efforts to secure them →

IoT devices and Consumer Security Awareness

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What_security_features_and_cri Blythe, J. M., Sombatruang, N., & Johnson, S. D. (2019). What security features and crime prevention advice is communicated in consumer IoT device manuals and support pages? Journal of Cybersecurity, 5(1). https://doi.org/10.1093/cybsec/tyz005   Abstract: Through the enhanced connectivity of physical devices, the Internet of Things (loT) brings improved efficiency to the lives of consumers when on-the-go … Continue reading IoT devices and Consumer Security Awareness →