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Research in socio-technical factors in computer security has traditionally focused on employees and their work practice within the premises of the organization. However, with universal access to computing and the diverse means of connecting such devices to each...

The lack of consumer confidence in information privacy has been identified as a major problem hampering the growth of e-commerce. Despite the importance of understanding the nature of online consumers' concerns for information privacy, this topic has received little...

Information security is a multibillion-dollar problem faced by commercial and government organizations around the world. Through their adverse effects on organizational information systems, malware, hackers, and malicious insiders jeopardize organizations’...

This paper identifies 10 essential aspects, which, if not taken into account in an information security governance plan, will surely cause the plan to fail, or at least, cause serious flaws in the plan. These 10 aspects can be used as a checklist by management to...

Studies have repeatedly shown that users are increasingly concerned about their privacy when they go online. In response to both public interest and regulatory pressures, privacy policies have become almost ubiquitous. An estimated 77% of websites now post a privacy...

This study investigates the relationships between psychological ownership and work attitudes and behaviors. Hypotheses were developed based on the psychology of possession and psychological ownership literatures. These hypotheses were tested using data from three...

Modern theories in cognitive psychology and neuroscience indicate that there are two fundamental ways in which human beings comprehend risk. The “analytic system” uses algorithms and normative rules, such as probability calculus, formal logic, and risk assessment. It...

This paper first reviews academic studies relating to online trust before using said studies to propose a framework for trust-inducing website design.  

Through a gambling task involving real stakes, the authors demonstrate that anger increases risk-taking in men while disgust decreases risk-taking in women.  

People tend to become less socially inhibitive when communicating online vs communicating in person. This article introduces six factors that create online disinhibition: dissociative anonymity, invisibility, asynchronicity, solipsistic introjection, dissociative...

The objective of this paper is to explore the potential problems concerning the attempt to audit the behaviour of the employee. It will be demonstrated that it is extremely difficult to audit human behaviour and so an alternative method to behavioural auditing needs...

Several new lines of research have begun to focus on a sociotechnical approach to information security by simultaneously considering the behavioral and managerial elements of security together with the technical aspects. In this paper, we examine the influence of...

This study hypothesised that independent self-construals would mimic others less than interdependent self-construals, and it showed as much through a series of experiments.  

This article evaluates a motivational intervention based on the theory of planned behavior, a volitional intervention based on implementation intentions, and a combined motivational plus volitional intervention in promoting attendance at workplace health and safety...

Researchers gather comments on website credibility and report on the top 18 areas of comment. They find website design and look to be the most frequently mentioned indicator of credibility.  

Following a discussion of relevant literature, researchers propose a model of online trust between users and websites. The model includes three factors that affect online trust: perception of credibility, ease of use and risk.  

This study introduces theory into an empirical framework that uses personality traits to predict job performance, thus improving the framework's validity.