Employment status and cybersecurity behaviors

Cybersecurity behaviors of employees are major contributors of cyber attacks in organizations. It is important to investigate an employee's cybersecurity posture within an organization. Using our cybersecurity behavior model, we surveyed employees from different organizations on their perceptio...

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Published in2016 International Conference on Behavioral, Economic and Socio-cultural Computing (BESC) pp. 1 - 2
Main Authors Anwar, Mohd, Wu He, Xiaohong Yuan
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.11.2016
Subjects
Computational modeling
Computer crime
Correlation
cyber attacks
cybersecurity behaviors
cybersecurity posture
Employment
employment status
Organizations
perceived vulnerability
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Summary:Cybersecurity behaviors of employees are major contributors of cyber attacks in organizations. It is important to investigate an employee's cybersecurity posture within an organization. Using our cybersecurity behavior model, we surveyed employees from different organizations on their perceptions on various cybersecurity-related psychological variables. We study whether employment status differentiates how cybersecurity is perceived and cybersecurity behavior is conducted. We use point bi-serial correlation to evaluate the strength of the relationships between employment status (i.e., full-time vs. part-time) and psychological variables (e.g., perceived severity of threat, perceived vulnerability, etc.). Our results show that full-time employees perceive vulnerability higher than those of part-time employees.
DOI:10.1109/BESC.2016.7804493