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Maritime Cybersecurity: Comparing Practices Between Developing Countries : The Case Study Of Kenya And Spain, Bibian Turyahumura
Maritime Cybersecurity: Comparing Practices Between Developing Countries : The Case Study Of Kenya And Spain, Bibian Turyahumura
World Maritime University Dissertations
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Information Security Maturity Model For Healthcare Organizations In The United States, Bridget Joan Barnes Page
Information Security Maturity Model For Healthcare Organizations In The United States, Bridget Joan Barnes Page
Dissertations and Theses
This research provides a maturity model for information security for healthcare organizations in the United States. Healthcare organizations are faced with increasing threats to the security of their information systems. The maturity model identifies specific performance metrics, with relative importance measures, that can be used to enhance information security at healthcare organizations allowing them to focus scarce resources on mitigating the most important information security threat vectors. This generalizable, hierarchical decision model uses both qualitative and quantitative metrics based on objective goals. This model may be used as a baseline by which to measure individual organizational performance, to measure performance …
Security Fatigue And Its Effects On Perceived Password Strength Among University Students, Chase Carroll
Security Fatigue And Its Effects On Perceived Password Strength Among University Students, Chase Carroll
Honors Theses
This study was performed with the goal of observing the effect, if any, that security fatigue has on students’ perceived strength of passwords. In doing so, it was hoped to find some correlation between the two that would help in establishing a measurable effect of the phenomenon in students. This could potentially aid organizational decision-makers, such as security policy writers and system admins, to make more informed decisions about implementing security measures. To achieve the goal of observing this fatigue and attempting to measure it, a survey was distributed to numerous students on the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga campus. …
The Empirical Study Of The Factors That Influence Threat Avoidance Behavior In Ransomware Security Incidents, Heriberto Aurelio Acosta Maestre
The Empirical Study Of The Factors That Influence Threat Avoidance Behavior In Ransomware Security Incidents, Heriberto Aurelio Acosta Maestre
CCE Theses and Dissertations
Ransomware security incidents have become one of the biggest threats to general computer users who are oblivious to the ease of infection, severity, and cost of the damage it causes. University networks and their students are susceptible to ransomware security incidents. College students have vast technical skills and knowledge, however they risk ransomware security incidents because of their lack of mitigating actions to the threats and the belief that it would not happen to them. Interaction with peers may play a part in college students’ perception of the threats and behavior to secure their computers. Identifying what influences students’ threat …