Proposal / Submission Type
Peer Reviewed Paper
Location
Daytona Beach, Florida
Start Date
20-5-2015 3:00 PM
Abstract
Hackers pose a continuous and unrelenting threat to organizations. Industry and academic researchers alike can benefit from a greater understanding of how hackers engage in criminal behavior. A limiting factor of hacker research is the inability to verify that self-proclaimed hackers participating in research actually possess their purported knowledge and skills. This paper presents current work in developing and validating a conceptual-expertise based tool that can be used to discriminate between novice and expert hackers. The implications of this work are promising since behavioral information systems researchers operating in the information security space will directly benefit from the validation of this tool.
Keywords: hacker ability, conceptual expertise, skill measurement
Scholarly Commons Citation
Giboney, Justin S.; Proudfoot, Jeffrey G.; Goel, Sanjay; and Valacich, Joseph S., "Measuring Hacking Ability Using a Conceptual Expertise Task" (2015). Annual ADFSL Conference on Digital Forensics, Security and Law. 8.
https://commons.erau.edu/adfsl/2015/wednesday/8
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Measuring Hacking Ability Using a Conceptual Expertise Task
Daytona Beach, Florida
Hackers pose a continuous and unrelenting threat to organizations. Industry and academic researchers alike can benefit from a greater understanding of how hackers engage in criminal behavior. A limiting factor of hacker research is the inability to verify that self-proclaimed hackers participating in research actually possess their purported knowledge and skills. This paper presents current work in developing and validating a conceptual-expertise based tool that can be used to discriminate between novice and expert hackers. The implications of this work are promising since behavioral information systems researchers operating in the information security space will directly benefit from the validation of this tool.
Keywords: hacker ability, conceptual expertise, skill measurement
Comments
Session Chair: Gareth Davies, University of South Wales