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Stephanie Steelman – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Private higher educational institutions are at a high risk of cyber-attacks based on the amount of data they consume about students, their families, donors, faculty, and employees. I determined that there was a gap in the body of knowledge concerning how IT leaders in private higher education secure their information assets. The purpose of this…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Information Security, Computer Security, Higher Education
Jamaine Mungo – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of this generic qualitative inquiry research study is to examine the features that need to be improved in self-paced cybersecurity awareness training to educate retail employees to identify phishing attacks. Malicious phishing attacks are a significant threat to retail corporations' business operations and confidential data. Employees'…
Descriptors: Computer Security, Information Security, Training, Employees
Holly A. Encina – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The Internet of Things (IoT) and Internet-connected technologies are becoming more and more prevalent in our houses today, with over 31 billion connected devices all over the world. This qualitative exploratory study looks at ten participants' home devices and protection measures. The participants were all considered the head of the household and…
Descriptors: Internet, Computer Security, Prevention, Motivation
Washington, Mark Allen – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The need to protect confidential data stored in university enterprise information systems and to prevent infiltration through phishing cyber attacks by malicious individuals and organizations has emerged. The unfortunate target of phishing attacks is university employees and students with access to confidential information. This research specifies…
Descriptors: Systems Approach, Information Security, Computer Security, Confidentiality
Caramancion, Kevin Matthe – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Misinformation and Disinformation, both types of Information Disorder in the cyber world, operate on a systemic level. Several factors enabling their persistence, including laws, policies, and technological mediators, have been investigated in the literature. Cybersecurity frameworks and guidelines specify that the target victims, as part of the…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Information Literacy, Consciousness Raising, Computer Security
Rene Ekoteson – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Cyberattacks pose a significant threat to university institutions as universities increasingly rely on computer networks to conduct day-to-day business activities. University information technology (IT) leaders are concerned about the increasing level of cyberattacks because these attacks can result in the loss of sensitive data, identity theft,…
Descriptors: Prevention, Information Technology, Information Security, Computer Security
Harrison, Brynne – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Phishing has become a preferred method among cyber criminals looking to gain access to confidential information. Although most businesses and governmental organizations provide employees with some sort of cyber security training, there is a lack of research examining whether such training methods work to actually reduce susceptibility to…
Descriptors: Training Methods, Information Security, Computer Security, Money Management
White, Jautau Kelton – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Current cybersecurity measures have become a major concern for commercial organizations in the United States. As the cyber-attack landscape expands and the skills and knowledge of the cyber-attacker become broader, the current measures that are taken and the laws structured around them are making it increasingly difficult for commercial…
Descriptors: Information Security, Computer Security, Computer Networks, Crime
Okoye, Stella Ifeyinwa – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Business leaders in Nigeria are concerned about the high rates of business failure and economic loss from security incidents and may not understand strategies for reducing the effects of information security threats on business performance. Guided by general systems theory and transformational leadership theory, the focus of this exploratory…
Descriptors: Information Security, Foreign Countries, Business, Systems Approach
Mohammadi, Hadi – ProQuest LLC, 2014
Use of the Patch Vulnerability Management (PVM) process should be seriously considered for any networked computing system. The PVM process prevents the operating system (OS) and software applications from being attacked due to security vulnerabilities, which lead to system failures and critical data leakage. The purpose of this research is to…
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Computer Software, Computer Security, Prevention
Toombs, Austin Lewis – ProQuest LLC, 2016
Recent scholarship in Human-Computer Interaction, science and technology studies, and design research has focused on hacker communities as sites of innovation and entrepreneurship, novel forms of education, and the democratization of technological production. However, hacking practices are more than new technical practices; they are also…
Descriptors: Computer Security, Man Machine Systems, Technological Literacy, Participation
Roumani, Yaman – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Software vulnerabilities have been regarded as one of the key reasons for computer security breaches that have resulted in billions of dollars in losses per year (Telang and Wattal 2005). With the growth of the software industry and the Internet, the number of vulnerability attacks and the ease with which an attack can be made have increased. From…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Risk, Computer Security, Information Technology
Massengale, Ricky L., Sr. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
With the ability of modern system developers to develop intelligent programs that allows machines to learn, modify and evolve themselves, current trends of reactionary methods to detect and eradicate malicious software code from infected machines is proving to be too costly. Addressing malicious software after an attack is the current methodology…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Computer System Design, Computer Security, Prevention
Park, Insu – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The purpose of this study is to explore systems users' behavior on IS under the various circumstances (e.g., email usage and malware threats, online communication at the individual level, and IS usage in organizations). Specifically, the first essay develops a method for analyzing and predicting the impact category of malicious code, particularly…
Descriptors: Hospitals, Privacy, Prediction, Computer Security