scholarly journals The Role of Employees’ Information Security Awareness on the Intention to Resist Social Engineering

2021 ◽  
Vol 181 ◽  
pp. 59-66
Author(s):  
Tanja Grassegger ◽  
Dietmar Nedbal
Keyword(s):  
Information Security ◽  
Social Engineering ◽  
Security Awareness ◽  
Information Security Awareness

scholarly journals Exploring the role of work identity and work locus of control in information security awareness

2019 ◽  
Vol 81 ◽  
pp. 41-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lee Hadlington ◽  
Maša Popovac ◽  
Helge Janicke ◽  
Iryna Yevseyeva ◽  
Kevin Jones
Keyword(s):  
Locus Of Control ◽  
Information Security ◽  
Security Awareness ◽  
Work Identity ◽  
Information Security Awareness ◽  
Work Locus Of Control

Advancement of Cybersecurity and Information Security Awareness to Facilitate Digital Transformation

2021 ◽  
pp. 99-117
Author(s):  
Hamed Taherdoost ◽  
Mitra Madanchian ◽  
Mona Ebrahimi
Keyword(s):  
Information Security ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
Business Leaders ◽  
Security Awareness ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Information Security Awareness ◽  
Digital World ◽  
Security Challenges

As the pace of changes in the digital world is increasing exponentially, the appeal to shift from traditional platforms to digital ones is increasing as well. Accomplishing digital transformation objectives is impossible without information security considerations. Business leaders should rethink information security challenges associated with digital transformation and consider solutions to seize existing opportunities. When it comes to information security, human beings play a critical role. Raising users' awareness is a meaningful approach to avoid or neutralize the likelihood of unwanted security consequences that may occur during transforming a system digitally. This chapter will discuss cybersecurity and information security awareness and examine how digital transformation will be affected by implementing information security awareness. This chapter will discuss the digital transformation advantages and serious challenges associated with cybersecurity, how to enhance cybersecurity, and the role of information security awareness to mitigate cybersecurity risks.

scholarly journals STRESS AS A MEDIATOR BETWEEN RISK AND PROTECTIVE FACTORS AND ONLINE RISKY BEHAVIORS IN ADOLESCENTS

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 149-171
Author(s):  
Tena Velki ◽  
Marija Milić
Keyword(s):  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Information Security ◽  
Risky Behavior ◽  
Protective Factor ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Risky Behaviors ◽  
Security Awareness ◽  
Information Security Awareness ◽  
Mediating Role

Objective: the aim of the study was to examine the mediating role of stress in associations between online risky behavior and three factors, namely, real-life risky behaviors and information security awareness as risk factors, and life satisfaction as a protective factor. Method: participants were university students (N=883, 40.5% male, and 59.5% female) with an average age of M=21.93 years (SD=4.29). They filled out the Users’ Information Security Awareness Questionnaire, Youth self-reported delinquency and risk behaviors questionnaire, Life satisfaction scale and Perceived Stress Scale. Result: Mediational analysis revealed a mediating role of stress: stress had a partially mediating role in the association between real-life risky behaviors and online risky behavior, making the association stronger. However, stress had a fully mediating role in the association between life satisfaction and online risky behavior, that is, the association was non-significant in the presence of stress. Conclusions: Overall results indicate that stress experienced in real-life situations can be a trigger for online risky behavior in adolescents. Under stressed conditions, adolescents choose to focus on negative outcomes more frequently because they refocus their cognitive resources on emotion regulation and leave inhibitory processes necessary to prevent risky behaviors uncontrolled.

Social Engineering in Information Security Breaches and the Factors That Explain Its Success

2018 ◽  
pp. 1-26
Author(s):  
Jhaharha Lackram ◽  
Indira Padayachee
Keyword(s):  
Information Security ◽  
Human Behavior ◽  
Social Engineering ◽  
Information Security Awareness ◽  
Security Breaches ◽  
Weakest Link ◽  
Information Assets ◽  
Security Awareness Training ◽  
Gain Access

Social engineering refers to the art of using deception and manipulating individuals to gain access to systems or information assets and subsequently compromising these systems and information assets. Information security must provide protection to the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information. In order to mitigate information security's weakest link, it becomes necessary to understand the ways in which human behavior can be exploited via social engineering. This chapter will seek to analyze the role of social engineering in information security breaches and the factors that contribute to its success. A variety of social engineering attacks, impacts, and mitigations will be discussed. Human factors such as trust, obedience, and fear are easily exploited, thereby allowing social engineers to execute successful attacks. However, with effective countermeasures such as information security awareness training, education, and audit procedures, the impacts of social engineering can be decreased or eliminated altogether.

Information Security Awareness in Academia

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Peter Korovessis
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Information Security ◽  
Social Engineering ◽  
The State ◽  
Security Awareness ◽  
University Environment ◽  
Information Security Awareness ◽  
Sample Data ◽  
Rapid Pace ◽  
Academic Sector

Information security has become an established discipline as more and more businesses realize its value. Many surveys have indicated the importance of protecting valuable information and an important aspect that must be addressed in this regard is information security awareness. The academic sector is one that regularly addresses information security awareness. Because many successful security intrusions are the result of either social engineering or user complacency, there is a need for students in non IT-related disciplines to become as security literate as possible. The proposed research investigates the level of security awareness amongst the online population. For this reason sample data from a university environment was used in order to examine the state of information security awareness in the academic sector and investigate the awareness needs of students. Since information technology grows at a rapid pace, it is important for the academic sector to identify new trends and developments in information security and adapt the curricula appropriately.

scholarly journals POSITIVE EMOTIONS AND EMPLOYEES’ PROTECTION-MOTIVATED BEHAVIOURS: A MODERATED MEDIATION MODEL

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (5) ◽  
pp. 1466-1485
Author(s):  
Jie Zhen ◽  
Zongxiao Xie ◽  
Kunxiang Dong
Keyword(s):  
Information Security ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Moderating Effect ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Security Awareness ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Information Security Awareness

This study explores the relationship between positive emotions and protection-motivated behaviours by focusing on the mediating role of self-efficacy and the moderating role of information security awareness. Based on a sample of 215 full-time employees from various organizations in China, the results of hierarchical regression and moderated path analysis indicate that positive emotions positively influence protection-motivated behaviours, and self-efficacy partially mediates this relationship. In addition, information security awareness has a positive moderating effect on the relationships between positive emotions and self-efficacy and between self-efficacy and protectionmotivated behaviours. Furthermore, the findings show that information security awareness has a positive moderating effect on the mediating effect of self-efficacy between positive emotions and protection-motivated behaviours. The theoretical and practical implications of these results, as well as directions for future research, are discussed.

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