Estudio de los sesgos cognitivos en el proceso de toma de decisiones, en la detección de correos phishing en profesionales de ciberseguridad de la ciudad de Quito

Abstract

Currently, the term phishing is widely used in traditional media, social networks and scientific literature. It is a crime that employs both social engineering and technical subterfuge to steal consumers' identity data, passwords and financial account credentials. The sample was made up of 44 cybersecurity professionals from the city of Quito. To which the test of cognitive biases, cognitive reflexivity and phishing was applied. Subsequently, the correlation analysis between these variables was carried out, obtaining a high association between them. Concluding that the characteristics of the cognitive profile of Internet users influence the task of detecting phishing emails.