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The function of cyber-security awareness and training in shaping cyber-risk perceptions and resultant cyber behaviours
Mini Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2022.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/90902 The function of cyber-security awareness and training in shaping cyber-risk perceptions and resultant cyber behaviours Myburgh, Suzanne ichelp@gibs.co.za Mahlatje, Naomi UCTD Mini Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2022. This study sought to explore cyber-risk perceptions that employees in South African financial services perceive that they as individuals and their respective organisations are exposed, the interventions implemented by organisations and the resultant cyber behaviours. The role-played cyber-security awareness and training intervention in shaping these cyber-risk perceptions and self-efficacy to mitigate such risks were explored in depth. The concept and influence of relatedness were then explored by comparing cyber behaviours within an individual cyber-risk perception context and organisational risk perceptions context. The research took a cross-sectional approach in 2022 and was conducted through a qualitative method, with data collected from 15 participants from nine organisations in the South African financial services industry. Collected data were analysed using thematic analysis, leveraging the Atlas.ti tool. Two of the four propositions were confirmed, whereas the other two were expanded to align with the findings from the study. The main implication of this study is for cyber-security managers to refine their cyber-security awareness and training programmes to approach the specific needs of each employee to keep them engaged and for them to keep benefiting from those programmes. There is a potential that well-crafted employee cyber-security training programmes could entice and attract more people into the cyber-security domain, which could help to close the growing skill shortage in this domain. This study contributes to the human cyber behaviour literature, particularly the protection motivation theory, by distinguishing between individual and organisational cyber-risk. Earlier studies in this domain focused on these contexts separately and not comparatively in a single study similar to this research. pt23 Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) MBA Unrestricted 2023-05-28T16:59:48Z 2023-05-28T16:59:48Z 19-04-2023 2022 Mini Dissertation * A2023 http://hdl.handle.net/2263/90902 en © 2023 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | UCTD The function of cyber-security awareness and training in shaping cyber-risk perceptions and resultant cyber behaviours |
| title | The function of cyber-security awareness and training in shaping cyber-risk perceptions and resultant cyber behaviours |
| title_full | The function of cyber-security awareness and training in shaping cyber-risk perceptions and resultant cyber behaviours |
| title_fullStr | The function of cyber-security awareness and training in shaping cyber-risk perceptions and resultant cyber behaviours |
| title_full_unstemmed | The function of cyber-security awareness and training in shaping cyber-risk perceptions and resultant cyber behaviours |
| title_short | The function of cyber-security awareness and training in shaping cyber-risk perceptions and resultant cyber behaviours |
| title_sort | function of cyber security awareness and training in shaping cyber risk perceptions and resultant cyber behaviours |
| topic | UCTD |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/90902 |