Influence of Awareness and Training on Cyber Security

Autor:	Kathryn Engel, James W. Harvey, Kevin F. McCrohan
Rok vydání:	2010
Předmět:	Password Password policy Specific-information Behavior change Repeated measures design Password management Computer security computer.software_genre Password strength Human-Computer Interaction Management of Technology and Innovation Intervention (counseling) Psychology computer
Zdroj:	Journal of Internet Commerce. 9:23-41
ISSN:	1533-287X 1533-2861
DOI:	10.1080/15332861.2010.487415
Popis:	This article presents the results of a study to determine the impact of a cyber threat education and awareness intervention on changes in user security behavior. Subjects were randomly assigned to one of two introductory lectures about cyber threats due to poor password management. The low-information condition was based on very general background information on passwords and computer security, while the high-information condition included very detailed and specific information on the threats to subjects' use of e-commerce. The pre/post-treatment design was a single, between-subjects factor (information level–low/high), repeated measures study, with password strength at Time 1 and password strength at Time 2 used to measure change in security behavior over a period of two weeks. The study found that at Time 1, participants possessed no significant differences in the strength of their passwords. Two weeks later, the password strength of the participants in the low-information condition was not statisticall...
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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