Factors Related to Cyber Security Behavior

Abstract

Theoretical and empirical insight notes that cyber security awareness is a topic of particular interest in cyber security. Humans are the central figures in cyber security and the way to reduce risk in cyberspace is to make people more security aware. While there have been numerous studies about various aspects of cyber security awareness, they are both inconsistent and environment-dependent. The main aim of our research is to analyze cyber security awareness in depth, and to try to discover how various factors such as socio-demographics, cyber security perceptions, previous cyber security breaches, IT usage, and knowledge may individually or together impact on cyber security behavior. To prove that we conducted our research on students, as they are the most technologically active part of the society. We discovered that knowledge proved to be the dominant factor for cyber security awareness, and although students are digital natives, they do not feel safe in the cyber environment; they do not behave securely and do not have adequate knowledge to protect themselves in cyberspace.

Extracting Key Factors of Cyber Hygiene Behaviour Among Software Engineers: A Systematic Literature Review

“…Employees should be aware of unauthorized emails [44], [57], [58], [67], text messages, and know that an unauthorized person can access their personal and financial information. [27], [48], [51], [73], [74]. Most of the research focuses on employee information about sensitive documents, browsing the Internet through illegal websites [44], [59]- [61], [63].…”

“…It is worth noting that many powerful social norms, for example, that indicate what constitutes good software, have little or no legal standing, including laws and regulations to ensure basic cyber hygiene [30]. Besides, some cyber hygiene practices may be created by small groups or during closed departmental meetings that are not ready to increase their legitimacy [48], [49], [63]. Specific trends in cybersecurity and cyber norms, tend to focus on states as main factors [27], [52].…”

“…The organization will not become a target for cybercrime because of its size. Legacy systems have been identified as the source of security issues because a customized security code must always be written to maintain cybersecurity practices [27], [48], [53]. Small companies have fewer assets, and they think they will maintain cyber hygiene practices very easily [69].…”

“…The outcome of phishing has devastating consequences [34], [35]. It is estimated that more than 80% of organizations experienced stealing sensitive information [36], [47], [48]. 83% of the respondents face the crime of phishing in 2018, and 76% in 2017.…”

“…One of the areas of research in cybersecurity is how to improve cyber hygiene behaviour [48]. Authors in the study [27] reported linking human characteristics, such as risk-taking, decision-making styles, demographics, and personality traits for ethical cybersecurity purposes.…”