Eyes wide open: The role of situational information security awareness for security‐related behaviour

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lennart Jaeger ◽  
Andreas Eckhardt
Keyword(s):  
Information Security ◽  
Security Awareness ◽  
Information Security Awareness ◽  
Situational Information

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.

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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