Jun 28, 2013 | Research library
Because successful phishing attacks are expensive to society, it is imperative to understand how to promote protective behavior for IS end-users. Our research program in progress will extend IS Security research by empirically testing a theoretical hybrid...
Jun 18, 2013 | Research library
In order to ensure that employees abide by their organizations’ Information Security Policies (ISP), a number of information security policy compliance measures have been proposed in the past. If different factors can explain/predict the information security behavior...
Jun 5, 2013 | Research library
This research investigates the factors that motivate employees to protect their organizations from information security threats via protection-motivated behaviors (PMBs). A model founded on Protection Motivation Theory (PMT) and several rival explanations is assessed...
Jun 3, 2013 | Research library
Current warnings in Web browsers are difficult to understand for lay users. We address this problem through more concrete warning content by contextualizing the warning – for example, taking the user’s current intention into account in order to name concrete...
May 31, 2013 | Research library
Purpose – A significant amount of empirical research has been conducted on the socio‐economic (sociological, psychological, economic) aspects of information security, such as the phenomenon of individuals who are willing to take security measures, but often do not....
May 31, 2013 | Research library
The importance of addressing the human aspect in information security has grown over the past few years. One of the most frequent techniques used to obtain private or confidential information from humans is phishing. One way to combat these phishing scams is to have...
