About the Measuring of Information Security Awareness: A Systematic Literature Review

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dc.contributor.authorFertig, Tobias
dc.contributor.authorSchütz, Andreas
dc.date.accessioned2020-01-04T08:32:20Z
dc.date.available2020-01-04T08:32:20Z
dc.date.issued2020-01-07
dc.description.abstractTo make employees aware of their important role for information security, companies typically carry out security awareness campaigns. The success and effectiveness of those campaigns has to be measured to justify the budget for example. Therefore, we did a systematic literature review in order to learn how information security awareness (ISA) is measured in theory and practice. We covered published literature as well as unpublished information. The unpublished information was retrieved by interviewing experts of small and medium-sized enterprises. The results showed that ISA is mostly measured via questionnaires. Round about 40 % of the questionnaires are based on the Knowledge-Attitude-Behavior-Model which is itself scientifically weak. According to studies measuring knowledge is not sufficient and,behavior has to be measured. Our results show that the answers of participants in questionnaires often differ from the truth due to wrong perception or social desirability bias. Therefore, behavior should be measured through behavior tests.
dc.format.extent10 pages
dc.identifier.doi10.24251/HICSS.2020.798
dc.identifier.isbn978-0-9981331-3-3
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10125/64540
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofProceedings of the 53rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectSecurity and Privacy Aspects of Human-Computer-Interactions
dc.subjectassessment
dc.subjectinformation security awareness
dc.subjectmeasuring
dc.subjectmetrics
dc.titleAbout the Measuring of Information Security Awareness: A Systematic Literature Review
dc.typeConference Paper
dc.type.dcmiText

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