Inspiration
The majority of our team being Cyber Security majors, we wanted to have a focus in cyber security. Just this year, Henry Schein Dental where my uncle works for was hacked and was forced to almost give millions of dollars to Russian malware engineers. The ability for the hackers to get in was not because of security flaws or exploits, but rather a high up employee giving up valuable information that led the hackers to get into their cloud systems and hold it. Social engineering is the most dangerous form of cyber attacks because it can affect the general public or high corporations, and our minds can be hard to fortify. We wanted to make an application that trains people about the dangers of Social Engineering.
What it does
Our Program SERA (Social Engineering Resistance Application) effectively trains anyone how to deal with the 5 most common social engineering actions: Phishing, Vishing, Honey Trapping, Piggybacking, and Deep Faking.
How we built it
Using the Java language and the JavaFX framework.
Challenges we ran into
First, two of our team members didn't show up without any communication or told us that they were going to change to a different team. Second, After several hours of coding, we had to scrap our original idea for a GUI manager called Swing, because it was not nearly as intuitive and in depth as we liked. Third, Our editing software kept crashing and we ran out of time to submit our infomerical in the way that we would have liked.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
I'm proud we managed to pull it together this far. We had lots of hard challenges and none of us have ever used JavaFX before, or haven't really written too much code.
What we learned
How to use JavaFX. As well as write code as a team under a very strict time crunch.
What's next for Social Engineering Resistance Application (SERA)
Next we will pursue to implement AI voice to do real world simulations. As well as continue to add modules that will continue to teach others.
