The rapid proliferation of digital technology and the increasing reliance on digital systems have made cybersecurity a critical concern for organizations and individuals worldwide. While technical solutions have been the primary focus in addressing cybersecurity threats, the human element has often been overlooked, despite evidence suggesting that human behavior is a significant contributor to cybersecurity...
Investigation of human weaknesses in organizational cybersecurity: A meta-analytic approach
Cyber security behaviour in organisations
This review explores the academic and policy literature in the context of everyday cyber security in organisations. In so doing, it identifies four behavioural sets that influences how people practice cyber security. These are compliance with security policy, intergroup coordination and communication, phishing/email behaviour, and password behaviour. However, it is important to note that these...
A methodology for quantifying the level of cybersecurity awareness
According to the yearly publication of Dutch National Cyber Security Center of the current cyber security situation of the country ( Cyber Security Beeld Nederland -CSBN- 2017) a cyber-attack originated in 91% of the investigated cases from some form of phishing. This is in line with data from the SysAdmin, Audit, Network and Security (SANS)...
Social engineering : introduction to social engineering through real-life hacking attempts
Social engineering is influencing someone to gain something to yourself but it can be used in a malicious and criminal purposes also. The task was to investigate what different methods are used and how it is used as a tool in cyber attacks. The statistics were analysed what attacks were used the most and how...
Internet of things & cyber security readiness in smart-government and organizations
We have studied the cybersecurity readiness for organizations in Kuwait to get a more information about how to build the cybersecurity readiness model. Cybersecurity readiness model is conceived from investigating the relationship among employee expertise, awareness, organization investment, compliance with standards and risk assessment on organizational cyber security readiness. The results show that investment, compliance...