Methods for the prevention of computer crimes in organizations: A review

Abstract

The present review, then, has the purpose of analyzing the importance of computer crime prevention methods in society, through a systematic bibliographic review, in which valuable information and relevant results are collected, at the same time recommending ways to prevent cybercrime attacks to be applied at the organizational level and at the individual level. Search criteria, article selection, and article evaluation define the literature review process. This systematic literature review searched for articles using three digital databases, used search strings to collect multiple articles, and selected relevant articles based on year, article type, and title, also focusing on articles related to social engineering and phishing. The databases used for this research are: Scopus, IEEE and ScienceDirect. Based on this systematic review of the literature, one investigation was found on the prevention protocol to configure the exchange of information in a social network, three investigations on user studies, three investigations on concepts of prevention of social engineering attacks, three research on engineering attack prevention model, one research on social engineering attack prevention method, four research on other methods.