literature review

I. Introduction

1. Overall topic

Use of biometric authentication as the solution to social engineering

2. Why it is important to the field,

Information and network security continues to dominate headlines with cyber-attacks being identified as one of the major threats faced by organizational due to increased connectivity in digital platforms. Due to technological advancements, employees using social media are vulnerable to attacks.

3. Why you are interested in the topic

Cyber security attacks are exponentially increasing ruining organization’s reputations. This research aims to assess why cyber security is advancing at an alarming rate and give recommendations regarding biometrics and how organizations can be couched to prevent attacks.

i. Identify themes and trends in research questions, methodology, and findings.

4. Themes and trends in research questions

i. Role of social engineering in cyber theft

ii. Psychological factors and their contribution to cyber theft

iii. Preventive measures against social engineering

5. Methodology

i. Use of questionnaires

ii. Interviews

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6. Findings

( Theme. )To address issues of social engineering and cyber theft, a multi-disciplinary approach should be applied in addressing organizational policies, procedures, standards, employee training and awareness programs, and incident response.

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Theme	Research question	Method	Findings
Role of social	What is the role of	Use of	Multi-disciplinary approach
engineering in cyber	social engineering	questionnaires	should be applied in addressing
theft	in cyber theft?	Interviews	organizational policies,
Psychological factors	What is the	Use of	procedures, standards, employee
and their contribution	contribution of	questionnaires	training and awareness programs,
to cyber theft	psychological	Interviews	and incident response.
	factors on cyber
	theft?
Preventive measures	What are the	Use of
against social	preventive	questionnaires
engineering	measures against	Interviews
	social engineering?

Summary

citation	Researc h question	Approa ch	Measures
Aldawood, H., & Skinner, G. (2019). Contemporary Cyber	What	A	Multi-
Security Social Engineering Solutions, Measures, Policies, Tools,	are the	critical	disciplina
and Applications: A Critical Appraisal. International Journal of	measure	apprais	ry
Security (IJS), 10(1), 1.	s,	al	approach
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PDF) Social Engineering Attack Mitigation. (, 2020). Retrieved 2	How can	Social	use of
October 2020, from	social	enginee	ant-virus,
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/307606034_Social_En	engineer	ring	training
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Conclusion

To curb cyber-attacks involving social engineering, use of biometric authentication is essential. Biometric authentication is a security measure that uses an individual's biological characteristics to verify that they are the right users and senses phishing attempts. In addition Multi-disciplinary approach should be applied in addressing organizational policies, procedures, standards, employee training and awareness programs, and incident response.