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Management Information Systems

2019

University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

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Survival Of The Safest: Examining Organization Risk Factors For Cybersecurity Incidents, Rachel Whitman, Ana Kriletic, Thomas Wilmore, Kate Conkey, Daniel Svyantek Oct 2019

Survival Of The Safest: Examining Organization Risk Factors For Cybersecurity Incidents, Rachel Whitman, Ana Kriletic, Thomas Wilmore, Kate Conkey, Daniel Svyantek

River Cities Industrial and Organizational Psychology Conference

[Invited adaptation from presentation proposal, "A Matter of Time: Exploring Survival Analysis Through Cybersecurity] Given that employees pose a large threat to organizational cybersecurity, much research attention has been directed to identifying individual risk factors for cybersecurity noncompliance and misbehavior at the cost of examining broad organizational risk factors. However, no study to date has formally examined how the risk of organizational cybersecurity incident changes over time, or how organizational characteristics affect this risk. The proposed study aims to conduct a survival analysis (SA) of cybersecurity events across the past decade, examining broad factors that impact the changing probability of …


A Matter Of Time: Exploring Survival Analysis Through Cybersecurity, Rachel Whitman, Ana Kriletic, Daniel Svyantek Oct 2019

A Matter Of Time: Exploring Survival Analysis Through Cybersecurity, Rachel Whitman, Ana Kriletic, Daniel Svyantek

River Cities Industrial and Organizational Psychology Conference

Despite the impact of employee behavior on organizational security, the topic of cybersecurity historically remains the responsibility of Information Security Management researchers and Information Technology professionals. However, the exponential increase in the prevalence and repercussions of cyber-related incidents invites collaboration between the fields of I-O Psychology and cybersecurity. The proposed presentation discusses the potential for I-O Psychology to contribute to cybersecurity efforts while demonstrating the fundamentals and applicability of survival analysis.