Information and Computer Security: Volume 26 Issue 3

Guest editorial

Steven Furnell, Nathan Clarke

Persuading end users to act cautiously online: a fear appeals study on phishing

Jurjen Jansen, Paul van Schaik

The purpose of this paper is to test the protection motivation theory (PMT) in the context of fear appeal interventions to reduce the threat of phishing attacks. In…

The effect of resilience and job stress on information security awareness

Agata McCormac, Dragana Calic, Kathryn Parsons, Marcus Butavicius, Malcolm Pattinson, Meredith Lillie

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between resilience, job stress and information security awareness (ISA). The study examined the effect of…

I shall, we shall, and all others will: paradoxical information security behaviour

Dirk P. Snyman, Hennie Kruger, Wayne D. Kearney

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the lemming effect as a possible cause for the privacy paradox in information security.

Identifying and predicting the factors affecting end-users’ risk-taking behavior

Manal Alohali, Nathan Clarke, Fudong Li, Steven Furnell

The end-user has frequently been identified as the weakest link; however, motivated by the fact that different users react differently to the same stimuli, identifying the…

In their own words: employee attitudes towards information security

Debi Ashenden

The purpose of this study is to uncover employee attitudes towards information security and to address the issue of social acceptability bias in information security research.

An information privacy culture instrument to measure consumer privacy expectations and confidence

Adéle Da Veiga

This paper aims to propose an information privacy culture index framework (IPCIF) with a validated information privacy culture index instrument (IPCII) to measure…

Security questions education: exploring gamified features and functionalities

Nicholas Micallef, Nalin Asanka Gamagedara Arachchilage

Security questions are one of the techniques used to recover forgotten passwords. However, security questions have both security and memorability limitations. To limit…