Segurança da informação na pandemia de covid-19 no brasil: a cibereducação como medida preventiva contra ataques de phishing

Abstract

Information and Communication Technologies have changed our daily lives, changing the paradigms of the way society works. Information is valued and then becomes one of the main products for the Knowledge Society. New spaces of freedom are generated with the evolution of technology. However, the exacerbated freedom ends up transforming the knowledge-generating environment into a space of security risk. In a digitalized world due to the coronavirus pandemic, cyberattacks rekindle taking advantage of the moment of fragility, putting at risk not only the privacy of users but their freedom and security. Therefore, the present work had as main objective to analyze the role of cybereducation as a preventive measure against phishing cyberattacks and for this, we used the research methodology that develops along three axes or stages, based on the research method developed by Quivy and Campenhoudt (1998), using exploratory research, analyzing examples that stimulate understanding in order to present the basic concepts necessary to understand the problem and research objective as well as non-experimental research where observations were applied in the in order to draw conclusions from a theoretical content gathered. Thus, allowing us to discuss the challenges that cyberspace poses in the midst of a pandemic scenario, analyze Brazil in the face of this security crisis, propose ways to prevent and mitigate damages for phishing attacks, in addition to presenting cybereducation as a solution of prevention, raising a discussion about its efficiency for the protection of the user. Using the previous processes as a basis, it was possible to conclude that cybereducation can become an efficient solution for user prevention through its constant development and encouragement to the user to consume and transmit knowledge, allowing users to know the environment at which they are inserted, their risks and how to prevent them.