How Motivation Shapes the Sharing of Information Security Incident Experience

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dc.contributor.authorFrank, Muriel
dc.contributor.authorAment, Clara
dc.date.accessioned2020-12-24T19:56:31Z
dc.date.available2020-12-24T19:56:31Z
dc.date.issued2021-01-05
dc.description.abstractDue to a massive rise in data breaches caused by negligent information systems users, organizations aim at deploying measures that help make people more aware of potential cybersecurity risks. One means to raise security awareness amongst coworkers is sharing information security incident experience. Yet, many employees refrain from speaking up. Organizations, therefore, must understand what motivates their workforce to open up and share experiences. Empirical results based on a survey with 385 respondents indicate that intrinsic motivators like strengthening the collaboration with coworkers enhance employees’ sharing behavior. In contrast, extrinsic motivators such as monetary incentives or promotion opportunities do the opposite. Interestingly, outcome expectations differ significantly for gender. Our results are of high relevance for practitioners, as understanding employees’ security incident experience sharing behavior can help to properly incentivize individuals to communicate their incident experience and mitigate the likelihood of future information security breaches.
dc.format.extent10 pages
dc.identifier.doi10.24251/HICSS.2021.549
dc.identifier.isbn978-0-9981331-4-0
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10125/71166
dc.language.isoEnglish
dc.relation.ispartofProceedings of the 54th 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.subjectInnovative Behavioral IS Security and Privacy Research
dc.subjectextrinsic motivation
dc.subjectinformation security experience sharing
dc.subjectintrinsic motivation
dc.subjectquantitative study
dc.titleHow Motivation Shapes the Sharing of Information Security Incident Experience
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