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Strategies Used To Mitigate Social Engineering Attacks, Lindiwe T. Hove
Strategies Used To Mitigate Social Engineering Attacks, Lindiwe T. Hove
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Cybercriminal activity performed widely through social engineering attacks is estimated to be one of the substantial challenges the world will face over the next 20 years. Cybercriminal activity is important to chief information security officers (CISOs) because these attacks represent the largest transfer of economic wealth in history and pose risks to the incentives for organizational innovation and investment and eventually become more profitable than the global trade of all major illegal drugs combined. Grounded in the balanced control theory, the purpose of this multiple case study was to explore strategies CISOs use to mitigate social engineering attacks within their …
Denial Of Service Attacks: Difference In Rates, Duration, And Financial Damages And The Relationship Between Company Assets And Revenues, Abebe Gebreyes
Denial Of Service Attacks: Difference In Rates, Duration, And Financial Damages And The Relationship Between Company Assets And Revenues, Abebe Gebreyes
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
AbstractDenial-of-service/distributed denial-of-service (DoS) attacks on network connectivity are a threat to businesses that academics and professionals have attempted to address through cyber-security practices. However, currently there are no metrics to determine how attackers target certain businesses. The purpose of this quantitative study was to address this problem by, first, determining differences among business sectors in rates and duration of attacks and financial damages from attacks and, second, examining relationship among assets and/or revenues and duration of attacks and financial damages. Cohen and Felson's routine activity theory and Cornish and Clarke's rational choice theory served as frameworks as they address the …