Feb 8, 2015 | Research library
Phishing is a prevalent issue of today’s Internet. Previous approaches to counter phishing do not draw on a crucial factor to combat the threat – the users themselves. We believe user education about the dangers of the Internet is a further key strategy to...
Feb 3, 2015 | Research library
As businesses face growing cyber threats, governments in the UK and the US are making strides in the professional development and recognition of information security practitioners. This qualitative research provides the first academic investigation into the attitudes...
Jan 30, 2015 | Research library
This review summarizes and draws connections between diverse streams of empirical research on privacy behavior. We use three themes to connect insights from social and behavioral sciences: people’s uncertainty about the consequences of privacy-related behaviors and...
Jan 20, 2015 | Research library
There is a lack of consistent use of measurements for factors related to people’s information security behavior. Specifically, a conceptually relaxed utilization of the variable “self-efficacy” makes it difficult for researchers to perform meaningful...
Jan 15, 2015 | Research library
The body of research that focuses on employees’ Information Security Policy compliance is problematic as it treats compliance as a single behavior. This study explored the underlying behavioral context of information security in the workplace, exploring how individual...
Jan 15, 2015 | Journal article, Research library
Recent research has begun to focus on the factors that cause people to respond to phishing attacks. In this study a real-world spear-phishing attack was performed on employees in organizational settings in order to examine how users’ personality, attitudinal and...
