Assessing security awareness among users is essential for protecting industrial control systems (ICSs) from social engineering attacks. This research aimed to determine the effect of cyber security awareness on the emergency response to cyber security incidents in the...
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Beyond cyber security tools: The increasing roles of human factors and cyber insurance in the survival of social media organisations
Cyber security tools are meant to guarantee the triad of confidentiality, integrity and availability of organisation’s systems and data against cyber threats. However, cyber tools have limited protections, and reliance on them alone is not enough to manage the...
Gamification of cyber security awareness training for phishing against university students
Users are the main source of Cyber Security breaches. However, Cyber Security Awareness training is viewed as useless and uninteresting by the users. These users feel as if the training is a secondary task, an obstruction, or a distraction from their primary work....
Exploring how, why and in what contexts older adults are at risk of financial cyber crime victimisation: A realist review
Although older people rarely report being victims of financial cybercrime, there is evidence that older online users are at increased risk. This realist review identified factors leading to older adults' victimisation and reviewed the theory and evidence for...
Human errors: A cyber security concern and the weakest link to small businesses
Cyber security is essential for all organizations, especially during this menacing Covid-19 global pandemic. The sudden transition of leaving the offices to work from home – the 'new normal' – has introduced information security-related risks associated with human...
Oppositional human factors in cyber security: A preliminary analysis of affective states
The need for cyber defense research is growing as more cyber-attacks are directed at critical infrastructure and other sensitive networks. Traditionally, the focus has been on hardening system defenses. However, other techniques are being explored including cyber and...
Bridging the knowing-doing gap: the role of attitude in information security awareness
This study examined that gap between knowledge and behaviour, why employees wilfully omit, and the role of attitude in bridging that gap. The study was conducted as a web-administered survey using the Human Aspects of Information Security Questionnaire (HAIS-Q), to...
Impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on online security behaviour within the UK educational industry
In this research, the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on the security behaviour of academic businesses is uncovered. This is done by comparing the pre-pandemic annual cyber security survey with the peak and post-pandemic survey, i.e., 2019, 2020 and 2021...
Analysing security concerns about the massive increase of sharing data over the cloud during the pandemic of Covid-19
Technology plays a vital role to overcome some of the challenges caused by Covid-19. For example, adopting cloud computing during pandemic has become double to handle the highest accelerating of process data through the cloud. However, the sudden and heavy use of...
Utilising machine learning against email phishing to detect malicious emails
Phishing is an identity theft evasion strategy used in which consumers accept bogus emails from fraudulent accounts that claim to belong to a legal and real company in the effort to steal sensitive information of the client. This act places many users’ privacy at...