Apr 10, 2014 | Research library
This paper reviews empirical evidence on the effectiveness of fear appeals, concluding campaigns that empower users are more effective than campaigns that aim to scare users (at least in the health sector), and that fear shouldn’t necessarily be the go-to tactic...
Mar 15, 2014 | Research library
Over the past decade, security researchers and practitioners have tried to understand why employees do not comply with organizational security policies and mechanisms. Past research has treated compliance as a binary decision: people comply, or they do not. From our...
Mar 10, 2014 | Research library
This study first examines the role that caffeine plays in moderating the depletion of self-regulatory resources, finding caffeine does indeed boost self-regulatory resources. The study also examines how social influence impacts deceptive behaviours at work, finding...
Mar 10, 2014 | Research library
This is the second part of a longitudinal study that examines how employee Internet abuse may be reduced by non-technical deterrence methods, specifically via IT acceptable use policies (AUP). Both studies used actual usage and audit logs (not self-reporting measures)...
Mar 4, 2014 | Research library
This paper aims to pinpoint the variables that impact compliance with organizational information security policies and to determine their significance. A systematic review of empirical studies from existing literature was conducted, with the variables investigated in...
Mar 4, 2014 | Research library
The purpose of this paper is to identify variables that influence compliance with information security policies of organizations and to identify how important these variables are.