Factors Affecting Malware Attacks: An Empirical Analysis

Ajay Kumar; Nishikant Ojha; Nishit Kumar Srivastava

Ajay Kumar School of Business Studies, Sharda University, Gr, Noida & Delivery Project Executive (IBM India Limited), U.P., India
Nishikant Ojha Associate Professor, School of Business Studies, Sharda University, Gr, Noida, U.P., India
Nishit Kumar Srivastava Assistant Professor, Operations and IT department, ICFAI Business School, Hyderabad, India

Keywords: malware attacks, issues in malware attacks

Abstract

It has been well proved that malware attacks results in a loss of wealth and security to individuals and organizations. So, it is of utmost importance to understand that how a person or an organization becomes a victim of malware attacks. To understand the issues affecting malware attacks an empirical analysis was
carried out. Firstly, factors affecting malware attacks were identified and a model was proposed, subsequently SEM (Structural Equation Modeling) was carried out to validate the proposed model and finally, regression analysis was used to establish the importance of the identified factors.