Studying users' computer security behavior: A health belief perspective

Ng, Boon-Yuen; Kankanhalli, Atreyi; Xu, Yunjie

doi:10.1016/j.dss.2008.11.010

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“…HBM has being suggested by previous study to be a comprehensive theory because it consists of number of explanatory constructs that are not represented in IS adoption or other related theories, but important in information security practices [20]. Moreover, HBM is able to measure or predict human behavior successfully [21].…”

Section: B Health Belief Modelmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Ng et al [20] defined perceived barrier as a user"s perceptions towards the difficulty of practicing computer security behavior, which is likely to reduce the performance of information security behavior. One of the barriers in information security is unskilled employees towards security technology due to their lack of security awareness.…”

Section: Perceived Barriermentioning

confidence: 99%

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Leadership Styles and Information Security Compliance Behavior: The Mediator Effect of Information Security Awareness

Humaidi¹,

Balakrishnan²

2015

IJIET

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Abstract-Leadership styles play an important role to enhance employee's information security awareness and may lead to proper information security compliance behavior. Therefore, the current study aims to investigate the indirect effect of leadership styles on user's information security policies compliance behavior through the extent of information security awareness. Questionnaires survey were done among health Statistical results confirm that transactional leadership style has a direct effect to all information security awareness factors, but the mediation effect on the relationship between transactional leadership and user's information security policies compliance behavior through two intervening variables (severity awareness and benefit of security-countermeasure). Meanwhile, transformational leadership style has a direct effect on benefit of security-countermeasure and no mediation effect with the extent of all the intervening variables. The research findings found that severity awareness and benefit of security-countermeasure awareness were significant predictors of information security policies compliance behavior while susceptibility awareness and perceived barrier were insignificant. Our findings were proven to be beneficial to fellow researchers and management of the organization, especially related to the medical sectors in improving current standards of information security awareness in hospitals.Index Terms-Transformational leadership, transactional leadership, information security awareness, health belief model, information security policies compliance behavior.

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Section: B Health Belief Modelmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Perceived Barriermentioning

confidence: 99%

Leadership Styles and Information Security Compliance Behavior: The Mediator Effect of Information Security Awareness

Humaidi¹,

Balakrishnan²

2015

IJIET

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“…However, PMT has seldom been applied to individuals' risky use of the Internet and information technology, with exceptions including recent studies on computer users' decisions to employ virus protection (Lee et al, 2008) and to regularly back up work-related data (Boss and Galletta, 2008), employees' compliance with company security policies (Pahnila et al, 2007;Johnston and Warkentin, 2010), and the stress coping mechanisms for IT professionals (Tsai et al, 2007). Other recent studies have utilized some of the same health-related constructs modeled in PMT to help explain security consciousness in users (Ng et al, 2009). The results of these studies largely indicated that the same factors that influence an individual's response to health and environmental threats, such as response costs, efficacy, and vulnerability, can influence an individual's response to technology-related threats.…”

Section: What Factors Influence An Individual To Post Personal Informmentioning

confidence: 99%

Social Networking Websites and Posting Personal Information: An Evaluation of Protection Motivation Theory

Marett¹,

McNab²,

Harris³

2011

THCI

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Ping Zhang was the accepting Senior Editor. This article was submitted on 3/26/2010 and accepted on 7/5/2011. It was with the authors 254 days for 2 revisions. The popularity of social networking websites among Internet users continues to grow, even though social networking remains a risk for users who do not participate with caution. Using protection motivation theory (PMT) as a theoretical lens to provide a research model, and by issuing a fear appeal to social network users about the potential threat to their privacy, this study identified perceptions and beliefs held by users that influence their behavioral responses to the imposed threats. A snowball sample survey measuring the variables conceptualized by PMT was completed by 522 social network users. A time-ordered hierarchical regression analysis of the responses showed that PMT provides explanations for both adaptive and maladaptive responses, particularly for the response of hopelessness. Implications and directions for future research in this area are offered.

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“…Similar research has shown robust results with fewer respondents (e.g. [18], [40]). Eleven respondents did not complete the questionnaire, leaving 123 respondents in total: 54 male (43.9%) and 69 female (56.1%).…”

Section: ) Demographicsmentioning

confidence: 65%

Voter, What Message Will Motivate You To Verify Your Vote?

Olembo¹,

Renaud²,

Bartsch³

et al. 2014

Proceedings 2014 Workshop on Usable Security

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Abstract-There is increasing interest in verifiable Internet voting systems that enable voters to verify the integrity of their vote on the voting platform prior to casting it, and any interested party to verify the integrity of the election results. The ease with which a vote can be verified plays a key role. Empowering individual voters to act as interested yet objective verifiers increases the probability of fraud detection. Verifying constitutes additional effort, something humans resist unless the benefits are compelling enough. Thus, what is the best way to provide such motivation? We report on a survey, distributed to 123 respondents, in which we explore the effects of three types of motivating messages on voters' intention to verify a vote, using a smartphone app. The motivating messages were intended to increase the intention to verify a vote. Our findings have persuaded us that further research on the use of motivating messages in the context of verifiable voting is warranted.

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Studying users' computer security behavior: A health belief perspective

Cited by 413 publications

References 28 publications

Leadership Styles and Information Security Compliance Behavior: The Mediator Effect of Information Security Awareness

Leadership Styles and Information Security Compliance Behavior: The Mediator Effect of Information Security Awareness

Social Networking Websites and Posting Personal Information: An Evaluation of Protection Motivation Theory

Voter, What Message Will Motivate You To Verify Your Vote?

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