Week 8 Questions on the Literary Review

Week 8 How has increased adoption of the Internet increased cyber attacks?


1. How has writing a literature review effected the way you might do research in the future?

If I were doing research for a given paper I would likely arrange the outline ahead of doing the research. This way I would find specific items to flush out a specific section of the overall paper.


2. Did you find any part of the literature review writing process difficult?


This week I had a hard time getting the work completed due to 2 weeks of prep work for a major security trade show (RSA) in San Francisco. So I had to find time to do the work between meetings. On top of that with the papers I found being heavily driven towards facts and statistics I found it harder to due a review of the content.


3. How has your understanding and knowledge of the topic of your research question expanded due to the analysis you did in writing your literature review?


Most of my work and thinking has been around the cause attacks, method of attack and how to prevent them. The additional content I found on motives was very interesting. I have also known about the hacker economy but this quantified it in ways I had not thought about which will help me explain this to others.

4. What questions do you feel are still left unanswered about your research (it is alright to still have unanswered questions, since research is an ongoing endeavor)?


I would like to find research that cover two main topics. First, what I found talks about the growth in Internet usage but does not cover the explosion of services using the Internet. I would like to see if I can find specific research on that. I would also find research on the increased quantity of malware and vulnerabilities to help quantify the weapons being created.