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ERF
Description
Over the past few years, cybersecurity has gained importance for organizations as social engineering attacks in general, and in particular phishing attacks evolved. Previous phishing research focused on improving the susceptibility of individuals towards phishing attacks, while collective security behavior has been neglected. In this emergent research forum paper, we aim to contribute to the existing phishing literature by extending the scope from the individual towards the collective and the effect of security networks on phishing susceptibility. To observe the collective behavior, we performed a field experiment with three teams and targeted them with spear phishing messages on an online social network. The work plans to evaluate the effect of trust, interdependence, connectivity, relational strength, position within a network and the impact within a network on spear phishing susceptibility. Thus, our work intends to show whether security networks can improve the collective behavior when being targeted on online social networks.
Paper Number
1613
Recommended Citation
Lamprecht, Robert; Haid, Franziska; and Eckhardt, Andreas, "Security Networks as an Effective Means to Reduce Spear Phishing Susceptibility" (2023). AMCIS 2023 Proceedings. 21.
https://aisel.aisnet.org/amcis2023/sig_sec/sig_sec/21
Security Networks as an Effective Means to Reduce Spear Phishing Susceptibility
Over the past few years, cybersecurity has gained importance for organizations as social engineering attacks in general, and in particular phishing attacks evolved. Previous phishing research focused on improving the susceptibility of individuals towards phishing attacks, while collective security behavior has been neglected. In this emergent research forum paper, we aim to contribute to the existing phishing literature by extending the scope from the individual towards the collective and the effect of security networks on phishing susceptibility. To observe the collective behavior, we performed a field experiment with three teams and targeted them with spear phishing messages on an online social network. The work plans to evaluate the effect of trust, interdependence, connectivity, relational strength, position within a network and the impact within a network on spear phishing susceptibility. Thus, our work intends to show whether security networks can improve the collective behavior when being targeted on online social networks.
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