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IoT Security Frameworks and Countermeasures
Published in Stavros Shiaeles, Nicholas Kolokotronis, Internet of Things, Threats, Landscape, and Countermeasures, 2021
G. Bendiab, B. Saridou, L. Barlow, N. Savage, S. Shiaeles
Security awareness is a formal process for training and educating employees and other individual users on how to keep safe against potential threats and avoid situations that might put their sensitive data at risk. As with monitoring, security awareness training requires to be a continuous process [63]. Security reports warn that human error is the cause of up to 95% of cybersecurity breaches, and with simple awareness training courses, this number can be dramatically reduced.
Security Awareness: The First Step in Information Security Compliance Behavior
Published in Journal of Computer Information Systems, 2021
Inho Hwang, Robin Wakefield, Sanghyun Kim, Taeha Kim
Security awareness describes employees who are cognizant of security policies, rules, systems, and the organization’s approach to security. In prior studies, technology awareness is a key determinant of positive attitudes toward protective technologies such as anti-virus software and firewalls,10 such that users are more inclined to implement the protection. Research suggests employees’ awareness is the causal antecedent of a target behavior,49 such as the awareness of an organization’s security mission that results in behavior to fulfill the mission.38 Furthermore, activities related to security awareness (e.g. sharing, collaboration) increase security compliance intention in the information security policy compliance model.50 Other studies support the positive relationship between employees’ security awareness and the intention to implement security systems37 and security policy compliance intentions.13 Based on past findings, we hypothesize the following: H6: Information Security Awareness is positively related to Security Compliance Intention.