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Cybersecurity: biometric authentication implementation in social engineering

Social engineering is the act of achieving malicious objectives through the exploitation of the human vulnerability. The attacker's tent to acquire personal private information and valuables because they are the weakest in every dimension. Most of the employees who use social media present arrays of challenges they face in technology use and processing. Phishing is a common social engineering attack. This type of attack. The attackers sent a crafted email with a legitimate attachment that carries with it malicious payload. Most of the email users complain about this malicious attack which encrypts the whole hard disk which eventually requires payment to unlock. 

Several things have been adopted by companies and organizations the attempt to cub this malicious attack: training and educating members on various phishing scenarios, installation of the ant-virus solution, development of security policies, encryption of any sensitive information of the company, and even conversation of Html to text-only messages of an email. In the implementation of Biometric Authentication, it ensures that there is nothing to remember by the users and hence the attackers have nothing to steal. It closes off the surface attacked by the malware that phishing attacks or attempts to compromise.  

Considering a research article by Sanchari Das(2019). The main questions that I should consider in the research include: who are the main victims falling victims for phishing attacks. Phishing susceptibility and demographical analysis, the effectiveness of the overall interventions. The report indicates that more women are more vulnerable and susceptible to phishing compared to men. 

The main purpose that compels me to research on this topic is that there is a gap that needs to be filled in the effort to reduce general social engineering attacks. Furthermore, there are many cases about security breaches in the corporate world that all through target human elements and are the riskiest forms that compromise personal privacy. The purpose of implementing biometric authentication is that it can aid in reducing password vulnerability, secure log process in the system, and enhance conveniences like quick log in using fingerprint and reduce desk help cost which comes with a call for passwords. Biometric can also be combined with the password to tightly increase security (Aldawood,& Skinner,2019). 

My research often targets email users or companies and organizations that frequently fall victim to the attack. collection of data will base on gender, age, and work status. For the correct hypothesis, the quantitative method is the best methodology that I could implement for effectiveness. Since many people tent to share a lot of information on social media like twitter Instagram and Facebook, there is a need to be aware of the related risk to reduce compromising with the security of the company. The research will also tent to protect the availability, confidentiality, and integrity of enterprise valuable assets. The implementation of biometric authentication will ensure confidentiality, authentication of data, data entity authentication, and availability. Biometric authentication should be oriented to the internet to analyze the security gap for any given generic application in the system. 

 

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Aldawood, H., & Skinner, G. (2019). Contemporary Cyber Security Social Engineering Solutions, Measures, Policies, Tools, and Applications: A Critical Appraisal. International Journal of Security (IJS), 10(1), 1.