A Survey of Factors Influencing People’s Perception of Information Security

Huang, Ding-Long; Rau, Pei-Luen Patrick; Salvendy, Gavriel

doi:10.1007/978-3-540-73111-5_100

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“…Starr (1969) found that factors such as level of knowledge, control, and catastrophic potential factors influence perceived risk, perceived benefit, and risk acceptance. More recently, Huang, Rau, and Salvendy (2007) and Nurse et al (2011) noted similar influences on risk perception within the security context, including knowledge, impact, severity, controllability, awareness, and possibility.…”

Section: Risk Message Receivermentioning

confidence: 91%

“…Numerous studies have explored these perceptions, mostly among non-technical users. Huang et al (2007) conducted a survey of over 600 individuals that revealed factors that influence security perceptions, including knowledge, impact, controllability, and awareness of exposure to a threat. Furnell and Thomson (2009) and Stanton et al (2016) discussed "security fatigue," a weariness towards security when it becomes too burdensome.…”

Section: Security Mental Models and Perceptionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The Work of Cybersecurity Advocates

Haney

Lutters

2017

Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Cyber attacks are on the rise, with potentially devastating effects at the personal, business, and national levels. Despite real and evolving cyber threats, people often fail to implement and effectively use basic, well-known cybersecurity technologies and practices. Further contributing to the cybersecurity problem is the shortage of security personnel to address these challenges.A critical role and force-multiplier in security adoption is the cybersecurity advocate: a security professional who has the skills to effectively promote security and facilitate positive security behavior change. Cybersecurity advocates attempt to remedy implementation failures by promoting and facilitating the adoption of security best practices and technologies as an integral component of their jobs.Currently, there is no clear career track and few resources for educating professionals on how to be good cybersecurity advocates. Furthermore, it is unclear as to what advocacy techniques may be most effective. In addition to the bias towards technical skills, these gaps are likely due to the fact that we have little understanding of the work practices and competencies that lead to successful security advocacy.

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Section: Risk Message Receivermentioning

confidence: 91%

Section: Security Mental Models and Perceptionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Work of Cybersecurity Advocates

Haney

Lutters

2017

Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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“…Consequently, their reactions depend on how they perceive this or that situation (Huang et al, 2007).…”

Section: Security and Psychological Wellbeingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Psychological security as the foundation of personal psychological wellbeing (analytical review)

Zotova¹,

Karapetyan²

2018

Psych. Rus.

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Background. Security as a socio-cultural phenomenon requires a comprehensive approach and integrates a multitude of aspects of social reality, each of which is important both for an individual and society as a whole. It has been shown that there are certain universal desires and needs which are valued by all cultures and peoples as essential to providing a high quality of life; one of such universals is the need for security. Consequently, the status of people's security in a society directly depends on the processes taking place in the society as a whole, and a craving for security and the need for it act as powerful stimulators of social changes.Aim. A theoretical analysis of studies on psychological security as a socio-cultural phenomenon.Method. Sources were selected according the following principles of scientific cognition: development, systematicity, and determinism.Result and discussion. It has been shown that, on the one hand, an individual's security is the result of an effective political, economic, social, and cultural environment. On the other hand, a society's security is a combination of individual people's security. It has been proved that the strengthening of a society's psychological security is key to achieving the wellbeing of different categories of people.It has been demonstrated that security is a dynamic process, since at every point in time we are dealing with a new type of danger. As a result, psychological security must constantly be created all over again. The latent character of security is shown by the fact that a person starts to strain after it only when an actual threat to life, health, and wellbeing emerges. What's more, the use of an interdisciplinary approach (psychological and sociological, in particular) appears to be the most fruitful, especially with regard to such latent phenomena as security and wellbeing.It has been shown that all aspects of human behavior in all spheres of life can be interpreted in the context of both the sense of security and actual security, and in most cases it is the need for security that guides man's action. It has also been demonstrated Psychological security as the foundation of personal psychological wellbeing… 101 that people's perceptions and assessment of their state of security are psychological processes, and thus, they are exposed to individual and group differences.Modern research has shown that, in the modern world, the link between a sense of wellb eing and sense of security is drawing increasing attention. Yet it should be noted that there is a tendency to interpret the concept of security restrictively as protection from harm and satisfaction of basic needs. In other words, the idea that psychological wellbeing and security are complementary and mutually conditioned concepts has not been dealt with so far.

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“…Koohang, Riggio, Paliszkiewicz, and Nord (2017) identified the top leading issues regarding mobile security policies within organizations. They were 1) BYOD (Ghosh, Gajar, & Rai, 2013;Longo, 2013;Marshall, 2014;Miller, Voas, & Hurlburt, 2012), 2) corporate communication conducted on mobile devices (Goodman, 2004;2006;He, 2012), 3) mobile apps used in the workplace (He, 2012;Huang, Rau, & Salvendy, 2007;Wu, 2013), and 4) disaster recovery plan (Choo, 2011;Totten & Hammock 2014). We assert that the awareness of these mobile devices security policies is essential to the life of the organization and potentially reduces or eliminates the threats to organizational resources.…”

Section: Mobile Devices Security Policy Awarenessmentioning

confidence: 99%

Security policy and data protection awareness of mobile devices in relation to employees’ trusting beliefs

Koohang

Floyd

Rigole

et al. 2018

OJAKM

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This paper builds a research model to examine the impact of security policy awareness and data protection awareness of mobile devices on employees’ trust belief. A survey instrument was administered to a sample in various organizations in the United States (US). Collected data were analyzed using Partial Least Squares - Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM). Results using 222 participants showed that the security policy awareness of mobile devices positively and significantly contributes to employees’ trusting beliefs. Likewise, the data protection awareness of mobile devices positively and significantly contributes to employees’ trusting beliefs. The findings are discussed.

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A Survey of Factors Influencing People’s Perception of Information Security

Cited by 17 publications

References 14 publications

The Work of Cybersecurity Advocates

The Work of Cybersecurity Advocates

Psychological security as the foundation of personal psychological wellbeing (analytical review)

Security policy and data protection awareness of mobile devices in relation to employees’ trusting beliefs

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