We created Lookout, an interactive website where students can learn about phishing scams and upvote the ones they've seen.

Authors: Allie Rauner (@arauner2), Sage Delfino (@sagedelfino), Arturo Tepale Aguilar (@atepag), Thomas Ward (@tward-3)

Phishing is the leading cause of data breaches, accounting for around 90% of them. For a mid-size company, the average cost of a phishing attack is $1.6 million. While there are tools to prevent the delivery of phishing emails to end users at universities and organizations, phishers are constantly evolving and many emails still get through. The best way to guard against the emails that slip through is through user education.

Lookout is a platform for an IT department as well as students to submit the phishing emails that they are seeing. These emails are likely to be getting to other students on campus. When a student sees a suspicious email, they can check on Lookout to determine if it is in fact a phishing email. They can then upvote the entry to help the IT department determine how widespread certain phishing campaigns are as well as to make them more visible to students who are looking on Lookout.

Preventing against phishing attacks through user education provides a large financial benefit to businesses and universities. It can prevent the loss of funds as well as the loss of intellectual property or sensitive user data.

In the future, Lookout can be further integrated into a university's systems to make use of pre-existing authentication. This would prevent outside users from spamming Lookout's systems.

This project was generated with Angular CLI version 8.3.23. This project uses Angular Material for components. Google Firebase was used for the database.

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Run ng serve for a dev server. Navigate to http://localhost:4200/. The app will automatically reload if you change any of the source files.

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Run ng test to execute the unit tests via Karma.

Run ng e2e to execute the end-to-end tests via Protractor.

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