Information security awareness (ISA) is referred to as a state of consciousness and knowledge about security issues and is frequently found to impact security compliant behavior. However, to date we know little about the factors influencing ISA and its mediating effect on behavior. Our study addresses these gaps. We propose a research model that studies ISA’s institutional, individual, and envi...

Business colleges and schools expose students to core business principles, which yield potential employees having certain marketable skills and awareness. However, the current business environment also advocates an intensive use of information technology to enable competitive advantage, which requires a basic awareness of information security practices. This study empirically explores the aware...

This paper aims to identify the determinants that affect information security awareness (ISA) of college students. With the prevalence and continuous growing of information technology (IT) in our daily life, we are experiencing immense benefits of the computerintensive business environment. However, information security is a critical issue at the same time. It is necessary to examine the ISA an...

REQUIRED) In this paper, we present a social/behavioral study of individual information security practices of internet users in Latin America, specifically presenting the case of Bolivia. The research model uses social cognitive theory in order to explain the individual cognitive factors that influence information security behavior. The model includes individuals’ beliefs about their abilities ...

This paper presents a formal, quantitative evaluation of the impact of bounded-rational security decision-making subject to limited information and externalities. We investigate a mixed economy of an individual rational expert and several naı̈ve near-sighted agents. We further model three canonical types of negative externalities (weakest-link, best shot and total effort), and study the impact o...