... they rated how strongly they agreed with statements that reflected each of the six hacker mental models, how susceptible they would be to a range of possible phishing attack consequences and how severe would be those attack consequences. The survey results were used to identify participants who endorsed...

... and data protection strategies. Findings While security vulnerabilities are often rooted in people’s internet usage behavior, this study examined user’s mental models of the internet and unpacked how the misconceptions about security tools relate to those mental models. Originality/value Based...

... (Bartsch et al., 2013). Doing so should increase the likelihood that nonexperts understand the warning message, understand the costs associated with noncompliance relative to the perceived costs of compliance and trust the warning message, which should increase compliance. Mental models...

...” and “confidentiality” by the well-informed. Design/methodology/approach To perform a best-case study, the authors identified a group of well-informed participants in terms of security. To gain insights into their privacy-related mental models, they were asked first to define the three core terms...

... and safety science. Design/methodology/approach The concepts of bounded rationality, mental models and the extended parallel processing model are examined in an information security context. Findings There is a lack of formal methodologies in information security awareness for systematically...