Holistic cyber hygiene education: Accounting for the human factors

Neigel, Alexis R.; Claypoole, Victoria L.; Waldfogle, Grace E.; Acharya, Subrata; Hancock, Gabriella M.

doi:10.1016/j.cose.2020.101731

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“…Another study conducted by [16] examined individual differences associated with developing cyber hygiene-related knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors. Their results from participants demonstrated information handling, incident reporting, and password management as the essential mechanisms to better cyber hygiene.…”

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Businesses using cyberspace are expanding every day, with Internet users performing different activities affecting cyber hygiene. The user's actions may be good or badultimately determining the state of cyber hygiene. Good cybersecurity hygiene requires a thorough implementation of the best practices to improve safety and protect information or resources, while bad practices lead to data corruption, loss and breaches. Compromised cyber hygiene is the result of exposure to various cyberattacks. Our paper reports the best practices used by different business sectors to maintain cyber hygiene. The study used a qualitative survey mounted on google with 20 business owners and Information Technology managers. We explored the use of best practices to understand business experiences in reducing and avoiding cyber-attacks and improve cyber health. We analyzed the collected data and presented the findings. Cyber essentials have been recommended as the guideline to mitigate cyber risks.

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“…Human aspects often play an even more important role in achieving comprehensive information security [15]. There are differences among users of information systems in their information security knowledge, attitude and behavior [16]. HAIS-Q has been developed to measure information security performance [12].…”

Section: A Human Aspects Of Information Securitymentioning

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“…For example, users who scored higher according to the HAIS-Q performed better in a phishing experiment suggesting that HAIS-Q may be a good predictor of information security behavior [10]. Similarly, studies show that several HAIS-Q factors are associated with better cyber hygiene [16]. HAIS-Q was also used in a study which found that there are gender differences in information security awareness [1].…”

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“…Being able to categorize users is one of the key goals when adapting security requirements (either software features or information security training requirements) [26]. Information security training is crucial because only appropriate training can improve the overall information security [16]. Similarly, software security features can improve security of information systems, especially when they cover a broad range of vulnerable users.…”

Section: B User Segmentation Based On Security-related Characteristicsmentioning

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“…For example, Xiao [28] provides security-related segmentation of smartphone users based on their gender and type of mobile operating system. In addition, user segmentation by gender can be found in several other studies, such as [1], [10], [16]. Cain et al [29] explore the differences between age groups and gender regarding cyber hygiene knowledge and behavior.…”

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Threats against electronic medical and health records are on the rise. These threats include phishing attacks, malware and ransomware, encryption blind spots, cloud threats, and most important one is the internal threat caused by gaps in the level of awareness and knowledge of the employees and health practitioner of handling sensitive healthcare data. Cyber hygiene is a term used to describe both the technical and non‐technical threats. In the same way, personal hygiene practices are used to maintain one's own health and protect against diseases, cyber hygiene security practices are important in protecting and preserving sensitive electronic health information systems. In this paper, we report on the findings of a cyber hygiene study carried out in Kuwait with the objectives of assessing the level of awareness, knowledge and experience of physicians and healthcare professionals. The study identified seven different areas or barriers that impacted the cyber hygiene and the adoption of electronic health medical records in Kuwait. The seven areas include financial barriers, time, difficulty of using technology, lack of management support, negative attitude toward the use of electronic medical records, legal and ethical issues, as well as cultural barriers. Most of the physicians interviewed lacked the awareness and basic knowledge needed to practice cyber hygiene. Most physicians were not aware of regulation or standards pertaining to the use of electronic medical records.

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Holistic cyber hygiene education: Accounting for the human factors

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