National Cyber Resilience Baselining
The APWG is working with research centers in Australia, and the United States to deploy the world’s first national base-lining survey of user resilience to the common cybercrime of phishing to gain insights into behavioral aspects of phishing – and to establish data corpora for university and industry investigators researching the behavioral/cognitive dimensions of cybercrime.

Principle investigators from La Trobe University and Indiana University are organizing this program to engage user behaviour in cyber security as a public health problem, adapting techniques from epidemiology to generate data that is representative of the whole population – not a biased sub-sample. The data generated from this study will help to extend the field, but more importantly, will be shared with system designers to help build more secure tools and better incident response capability.
This study will extend an existing instrument developed at Indiana University that measures responses to simulated phishing attacks, and deliver it to a target 9,798 randomly sampled users nationally (approximately 0.2% of the population). This sample size has been selected because it is the minimum sample size required to achieve a Confidence Level of 0.99, with a Confidence Interval of 0.5, given a population of 24,511,800 in Australia.
Meanwhile. APWG is working with principal investigators in a number of European countries to consider the potential for deploying baselining studies of their nations’ populations as well.
SEE: https://ecrimeresearch.org/ncrb/