Personal and Contextual Predictors of Information Security Policy Compliance: Evidence from a Low-Fidelity Simulation

• Published in: Journal of business and psychology Vol. 39; no. 3; pp. 657 - 677
• Main Authors: Brooks, Ricardo R., Williams, Kevin J., Lee, So-Yun
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Springer US 01.06.2024; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Behavioral Science and Psychology; Business and Management; Community and Environmental Psychology; Compliance; Cybersecurity; Employee behavior; Industrial and Organizational Psychology; Information control; Information policies; Network security; Occupational psychology; Personality and Social Psychology; Psychology; Simulation; Social Sciences; Theory of planned behavior; Low-fidelity simulation; Organizational cybersecurity; Compliance threshold; Theory of planned behavior; Information security compliance; Organizational security climate

The objective of this study was to examine the roles that organizational security climate and perceived costs and rewards of compliance play in predicting the extent to which people endorse compliance or violation of specific information security policies (ISP). A low-fidelity simulation placed part...