Using phishing to test social engineering awareness of financial employees

<p>"Social engineering is the biggest security threat to financial institutions because it exploits the weakest link in any security system: the human element. It is proposed here that combining specialized training on social engineering followed by repeated audit tests will be more effective at lowering employee vulnerability than standard security training alone. This research developed a training module specializing in social engineering with an extra emphasis on phishing, then used phishing trials on financial employees to audit their awareness and knowledge of social engineering to determine if it lowers the vulnerability level to phishing attacks"--Document.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Science (MS) in Computer Science

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Computer Science

Year

2013

Author dc:creator

• Long, Rebecca M.

• Phishing--Prevention
• Internet fraud
• Computer networks--Security measures--Testing
• Computer security
• Computer Sciences

Statement dc:rights

• Access is available to all users

Repository record dc:identifier

https://dc.ewu.edu/theses/156

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dc.ewu.edu:theses-1155