Understanding the Personality Characteristics of Cybersecurity Competition Participants to Improve the Effectiveness of Competitions as Recruitment Tools

Wee, Colin; Bashir, Masooda

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-41932-9_10

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“…Extant studies have reported mixed findings regarding the effect of neuroticism in cyber-security decisions. Bashir and associates (Bashir et al, 2015(Bashir et al, , 2017Wee and Bashir, 2016) found that the participants in a cyber-security competition scored the lowest on neuroticism among the Big Five Personality traits, with females scoring higher than males. On the contrary, McBride et al (2012) found that neurotic individuals, who possessed a lower self-efficacy, were less likely to violate cyber-security protocols.…”

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Antecedents for enhanced level of cyber-security in organisations

Kumar

Biswas

Bhatia

et al. 2020

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PurposeThe present study aims to identify and investigate the antecedents of enhanced level of cyber-security at the organisational level from both the technical and the human resource perspective using human–organisation–technology (HOT) theory.Design/methodology/approachThe study has been conducted on 151 professionals who have expertise in dealing with cyber-security in organisations in sectors such as retail, education, healthcare, etc. in India. The analysis of the data is carried out using partial least squares based structural equation modelling technique (PLS-SEM).FindingsThe results from the study suggest that “legal consequences” and “technical measures” adopted for securing cyber-security in organisations are the most important antecedents for enhanced cyber-security levels in the organisations. The other significant antecedents for enhanced cyber-security in organisations include “role of senior management” and “proactive information security”.Research limitations/implicationsThis empirical study has significant implications for organisations as they can take pre-emptive measures by focussing on important antecedents and work towards enhancing the level of cyber-security.Originality/valueThe originality of this research is combining both technical and human resource perspective in identifying the determinants of enhanced level of cyber-security in the organisations.

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confidence: 99%