...Cláudia Ascenção; Henrique Teixeira; João Gonçalves; Fernando Almeida Purpose Security in large-scale agile is a crucial aspect that should be carefully addressed to ensure the protection of sensitive data, systems and user privacy. This study aims to identify and characterize the security...

...Areej Alyami; David Sammon; Karen Neville; Carolanne Mahony Purpose Cyber security has never been more important than it is today in an ever more connected and pervasive digital world. However, frequently reported shortages of suitably skilled and trained information system (IS)/cyber security...

... of security and privacy concerns and investigate whether assurance mechanisms decrease such concerns. Design/methodology/approach This study conducts a scenario-based survey with 694 mobile cloud computing (MCC) app users to understand their perceptions and behaviors. Findings This study finds...

...Aleatha Shanley; Mike Johnstone; Patryk Szewczyk; Michael Crowley Purpose Using technology to meet national security expectations and requirements is not new. Nations attempt to strike a balance between security and the (expressed or otherwise) privacy needs of citizens. Attacks (physical or cyber...

...Ramaraj Palanisamy; Yi Shi Purpose The purpose of this paper is to rank the users’ attitude on major components of mobile cloud computing (MCC) security and investigate the degree of impact of these components on MCC security as a whole. Design/methodology/approach Hypotheses were evolved...

... using assistive IoT devices, which was also directly influenced by anxiety and personal innovativeness. Research limitations/implications Understanding the security behaviors of IoT users will help researchers and practitioners develop preventive measures and robust security solutions for the IoT...

... of cyber attacks as well as to evolve new techniques of detection. Cyber security trainings are generally very challenging. Cyber test beds make such trainings easy both for trainees and trainers. However, it is not feasible for each organization to build a network for the sole purpose of hands-on training...

...Suncica Hadzidedic; Silvia Fajardo-Flores; Belma Ramic-Brkic Purpose This paper aims to address the user perspective about usability, security and use of five authentication schemes (text and graphical passwords, biometrics and hardware tokens) from a population not covered previously...

...Kwame Owusu Kwateng; Christopher Amanor; Francis Kamewor Tetteh Purpose This study aims to empirically investigate the relationship between enterprise risk management (ERM) and information technology (IT) security within the financial sector. Design/methodology/approach Risk officers...

... on the detection procedure. Dhamija et al. found that visual deception can fool even sophisticated users and that a good phishing website fooled 90% of their participants (Dhamija et al., 2006a). They discussed how standard security indicators are not effective enough and analyzed the strategies...

... is convenient for customers, it does raise many security issues such as phishing threats and identity theft (Al-Sharafi et al., 2016). Phishers launched various phishing techniques on internet banking users. Verizon (2021) reported that 96% of phishing attacks were sent through emails containing...

... of human decision-making during app selection and close with a discussion of the strengths of a Bayesian approach to evaluating privacy and security interventions. Design/methodology/approach The authors focused on the risk communication in mobile marketplace’s realm, examining how risk indicators can...

...Markus Lennartsson; Joakim Kävrestad; Marcus Nohlberg Purpose For decades, literature has reported on the perceived conflict between usability and security. This mutual trade-off needs to be considered and addressed whenever security products are developed. Achieving well-balanced levels of both...

...Bilal Naqvi; Nathan Clarke; Jari Porras Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present an integrative framework for handling the security and usability conflicts during the system development lifecycle. The framework has been formulated while considering key concerns raised after conducting...

... organizations with a special focus on security and privacy issues. Design/methodology/approach This study was conducted for the identification of factors responsible for the adoption of the AI-integrated CRM system in Indian organizations focusing attention on security and privacy perspective...

... conscious of some of the threat and several of them now shun away from some suspicious activities over the internet as a form of protection. This study aims to explore the factors that influence users’ to adopt security behaviour. Design/methodology/approach A synthesis of theories – Self-efficacy...

...Joakim Kävrestad; Markus Lennartsson; Marcus Birath; Marcus Nohlberg Purpose Using authentication to secure data and accounts has grown to be a natural part of computing. Even if several authentication methods are in existence, using passwords remain the most common type of authentication. As long...

... of a firm with respect to its cybersecurity posture. The goal is to assist top-management-team with tailoring their decision-making about security investments while managing cyber risk at their organization. Design/methodology/approach A thematic analysis of existing publications using content analysis...

...Tamir Tsegaye; Stephen Flowerday Purpose An electronic health record (EHR) enables clinicians to access and share patient information electronically and has the ultimate goal of improving the delivery of healthcare. However, this can create security and privacy risks to patient information...

...Joakim Kävrestad; Johan Zaxmy; Marcus Nohlberg Purpose Using passwords to keep account and data safe is very common in modern computing. The purpose of this paper is to look into methods for cracking passwords as a means of increasing security, a practice commonly used in penetration testing...