Marietta College’s McCoy Professor Grace Johnson presented her research, “Surfing for SIRF: Social Engineering, Stolen Identity Refund Fraud, and the Accounting Professional,” at the North American Accounting Society annual meeting in Chicago earlier in March.
Johnson’s work examined the ways social engineers manipulate and coerce their targets, identified what makes targets susceptible to social engineers’ methods, and presented a framework for strengthening accounting professionals’ abilities to protect themselves from social engineering.
Johnson, who joined Marietta College in 1989, also serves on the Board of Directors for the North American Accounting Society and was re-elected to a three-year term on the Board. Johnson regularly teaches courses on Business Ethics, Financial Accounting, and Business in Global Contexts.