A conceptual security approach with awareness strategy and implementation policy to eliminate ransomware

Han, Jordan W.; Hoe, Ong J.; Wing, Joseph S.; Brohi, Sarfraz

Abstract

Undeterred by numerous efforts deployed by antivirus software that shields users from various security threats, ransomware is constantly evolving as technology advances. The impact includes hackers hindering the user’s accessibility to their data, and the user will pay ransom to retrieve their data. Ransomware also targets multimillion-dollar organizations, and it can cause colossal data loss. The organizations could face catastrophic consequences, and business operations could be ceased. This research contributes by spreading awareness of ransomware to alert people to tackle ransomware. The solution of this research is the conceptual development of a browser extension that provides assistance to warn users of plausible dangers while surfing the Internet. It allows the users to surf the web safely. Since the contribution of this research is conceptual, we can assume that technology users will adopt the proposed idea to prevent ransomware attacks on their personal computers once the solution is fully implemented in future research.

• Presentation Conference Type: Conference Paper (Published)
• Conference Name: ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
• Start Date: Dec 5, 2017
• End Date: Dec 7, 2017
• Acceptance Date: Nov 13, 2017
• Publication Date: Dec 5, 2017
• Deposit Date: Sep 9, 2022
• Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
• Pages: 222-226
• Book Title: CSAI 2017: Proceedings of the 2017 International Conference on Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence
• ISBN: 9781450353922
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3168390.3168398
• Keywords: Security and privacy, Software and application security, Software security engineering, Cyber security
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/9942590
• Publisher URL: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3168390.3168398
• Related Public URLs: https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3168390