Psychology of Criminal and Cyber Security Behaviour of Employees: Benefits to Security Professionals in Critical Infrastructure
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2019
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Malomo, B.
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Criminal and cyber security behaviour has become a challenge to small, medium and large scale businesses. The etiology of criminal behaviour is traceable to genetical and environmental factors with personality characteristics playing a major role in influencing behaviour. In the same vein, cyber security behaviour of employees may be compromised due to their personal characteristics. This is evident in the insecure behaviours that employees exhibit directly or indirectly to inadvertently threaten the continued existence of their organizations. Despite financial efforts expended by organizations to avert cyber-attacks perpetrated through illegal and unauthorised access to physical and virtual properties of organizations, incidences of threats and attacks still persists. This paper discusses behavioural change strategies that can be applied to modify the behaviour of employees who deal with systems that maintain critical infrastructure in the different sectors of the economy. This will ameliorate the challenges security professionals encounter, thereby optimizing their potential to secure and provide adequate security to critical infrastructures.
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Malomo, B. (2019). Psychology of Criminal and Cyber Security Behaviour of Employees: Benefits to Security Professionals in Critical Infrastructure, Security and Intelligence Reviews, 3(1), 6-13p.