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Importance of Human Factors on Cybersecurity within Organizations

Authors:
Elham Rajabian Noghondar

Keywords: cyber resilience, human factors, cybersecurity behavior, attitude, usability, security culture

Abstract:
The rise of cybersecurity incidents is a threat to most organizations, while the impact of the incidents is unique for each of the organizations. There is a requirement to create the right conditions which provide rhythm to cybersecurity growth and a fully developed cybersecurity resilience. Having a mindset of cybersecurity resilience works actively to adapt people, processes and technology. Meanwhile, the adequate cultural cybersecurity conditions need to be achieved. It seems necessary to employ behavioral sciences to concentrate on employees’ behavior in order to achieve concrete security mitigation preparedness regarding cybersecurity incidents. There are noticeable differences among users of a computer system in terms of complying with security behavior. The people differences can be studied under several headings, such as delaying tactics on something that must be done, the tendency to act without thinking, future thinking about unexpected implications of present-day issues, and risk-taking behaviors in security policy compliance. In this article, we introduce high profile cyber-attacks and their impacts on weakening cyber resilience in organizations. We also give attention to human errors and behaviors that weaken general security readiness in organizations. The human errors are discussed as a part of psychological matters to enhance compliance with security policy.

Pages: 1 to 8

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2022

Publication date: October 16, 2022

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2162-2116

ISBN: 978-1-68558-007-0

Location: Lisbon, Portugal

Dates: from October 16, 2022 to October 20, 2022