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Gender Difference And Employees' Cybersecurity Behaviors, Mohd Anwar, Wu He, Ivan Ash, Xiaohong Yuan, Ling Li, Li Xu
Gender Difference And Employees' Cybersecurity Behaviors, Mohd Anwar, Wu He, Ivan Ash, Xiaohong Yuan, Ling Li, Li Xu
Information Technology & Decision Sciences Faculty Publications
Security breaches are prevalent in organizations and many of the breaches are attributed to human errors. As a result, the organizations need to increase their employees' security awareness and their capabilities to engage in safe cybersecurity behaviors. Many different psychological and social factors affect employees' cybersecurity behaviors. An important research question to explore is to what extent gender plays a role in mediating the factors that affect cybersecurity beliefs and behaviors of employees. In this vein, we conducted a cross-sectional survey study among employees of diverse organizations. We used structural equation modelling to assess the effect of gender as a …