Cyber security in consumer, corporate, and military settings, continues to be a growing concern in the modern and technologically driven world. A literature review related to human response to cybersecurity events reveals three phases involved in the cybersecurity...
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A mixed methods approach to understanding cyber-security vulnerability in the baby boomer population
The ongoing development and ubiquitous spread of technology has brought with it new threats and opportunities for online victimisation. Although human factors cyber-security research continues to try to mitigate these threats through the application of behavioural...
The current state of research on people, culture and cyber security
What is becoming apparent is that we need a better understanding of the human aspects of cyber security not only in terms of its impacts on organisations, communities and individuals but also in terms of how human behaviour itself contributes to cyber security-related...
Human factors in cyber security: A scoping review
In this work we carry out a scoping review to investigate the take of the computer science community on the human-centric cyber security paradigm by considering the top conferences on network and computer security for the past six years. Results show that broadly two...
How safely do we behave online? An explanatory study into the cyber security behaviors of Dutch citizens
The Capability-Opportunity-Motivation-Behavior (COM-B) model states that people’s behavior can be explained by their capabilities, opportunity, motivation, and the interaction between these components. This research focuses on applying the COM-B model to Dutch...
How safely do we behave online? An explanatory study into the cyber security behaviours of Dutch citizens
The Capability-Opportunity-Motivation-Behavior (COM-B) model states that people’s behavior can be explained by their capabilities, opportunity, motivation, and the interaction between these components. This research focuses on applying the COM-B model to Dutch...
Revolution and stability in the study of the human factor in the security of information systems field : A systematic literature review over 30 years of publication
Human factor is widely recognized as the first threat to the security of information systems (ISS). ISS research thus points to the problem of user behavior, which is overwhelmingly represented as a fallibility that would be part of its nature. Companies would...
Leveraging human factors in cyber security: an integrated methodological approach
Computer and Information Security (CIS) is usually approached adopting a technology-centric viewpoint, where the human components of sociotechnical systems are generally considered as their weakest part, with little consideration for the end users’ cognitive...
Mindfulness and cyber security behaviour: A comparative analysis of rational and intuitive cyber security decisions
Organizations invest heavily in technology solutions to enhance their cybersecurity, yet it is often human factors, like an employee clicking on a phishing link, that can derail even the most sophisticated security systems. Applying dual-process theories of cognition,...
Mazephishing: the COVID-19 pandemic as credible social context for social engineering attacks
Although the pandemic is certainly not the first occurrence of socially disruptive circumstances that drive cyber criminals to action, relevant academic scholarship has remained scarce. To fill this gap in literature, and propose the analytical framework of...