A Chatbot for Promoting Cybersecurity Awareness

Yin Chun Fung, Lap Kei Lee

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Abstract

Cybersecurity is one of the hot topics nowadays. However, not many Internet users know the cyber risks around them. To promote cybersecurity awareness, this paper presents a chatbot that is a cybersecurity expert. It aims to let its users learn more about cybersecurity. It relies on Google Dialogflow, which is a natural language understanding platform. Our chatbot contains a knowledge base on cybersecurity knowledge. Users can make queries to the chatbot to learn definitions and concepts of different cybersecurity terms. Our chatbot also provides self-quizzes for users to test their knowledge on different cybersecurity topics. It also provides suggestions to users on cybersecurity issues such as how to identify and handle phishing emails. In a survey of twenty users, the majority of the users agreed that our chatbot is easy to use and can increase their awareness of cybersecurity issues.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationCyber Security, Privacy and Networking - Proceedings of ICSPN 2021
EditorsDharma P. Agrawal, Nadia Nedjah, B. B. Gupta, Gregorio Martinez Perez
Pages379-387
Number of pages9
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2022
EventInternational Conference on Cyber Security, Privacy and Networking, ICSPN 2021 - Virtual, Online
Duration: 17 Sept 202119 Sept 2021

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Networks and Systems
Volume370
ISSN (Print)2367-3370
ISSN (Electronic)2367-3389

Conference

ConferenceInternational Conference on Cyber Security, Privacy and Networking, ICSPN 2021
CityVirtual, Online
Period17/09/2119/09/21

Keywords

  • Chatbot
  • Cybersecurity awareness
  • Natural language processing

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