Jan 14, 2021 | Research
This paper proposes a conceptual model which provides an integrative and structural perspective to describe how social engineering attacks work. Three core entities (effect mechanism, human vulnerability and attack method) are identified to help the understanding of...Jan 5, 2021 | Research
This paper presents a set of statistical analyses on an empirical study of phishing email sorting by real online users. Participants were assigned to multitasking and/or incentive conditions in unattended web-based tasks that are the most realistic in any comparable...Jan 1, 2021 | Research
The Cyber Security Breaches Survey is a quantitative and qualitative study of UK businesses, charities and education institutions. It helps these organisations to understand the nature and significance of the cyber security threats they face, and what others are doing...Dec 4, 2020 | Research
While training individuals on best practices in cybersecurity continues to be implemented, prior research has found that training people in the use of secure passwords has not proven to be effective. Developing profiles of individual who are likely to become victims...Nov 23, 2020 | Research
This paper presents a cyber-security culture framework for assessing and evaluating the current security readiness of an organization’s workforce. Having conducted a thorough review of the most commonly used security frameworks, it identifies core security...Oct 1, 2020 | Research
Previous studies have observed an intention-behavior gap that has been labeled the “privacy paradox”: people disclose personal information (behavior) despite expressing negative sharing intentions (in surveys). However, this phenomenon has not been studied in the...