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Title
A four-part typology to assess organizational and individual security awareness
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Abstract
This article provides a four-part typology of security awareness. We argue that existing awareness typologies that distinguish problem awareness from solution awareness and that separate descriptive awareness from prescriptive awareness are on its own insufficient and need to be merged to have a complete picture of security awareness. Renaming and bridging both distinctions leads to four security awareness types: (1) Cognitive awareness of the threat; (2) Attitudinal awareness of the threat; (3) Cognitive awareness of the mitigation; and (4) Attitudinal awareness of the mitigation. Each type is subsequently explained in greater detail and illustrated by referring to the 2020 worldwide outbreak of COVID-19. Furthermore, it is demonstrated that the typology is applicable to study both organizational awareness and individual awareness.
Language
English
Source (journal)
Information security journal: a global perspective. - Place of publication unknown
Publication
Place of publication unknown : 2022
ISSN
1939-3555
DOI
10.1080/19393555.2020.1855374
Volume/pages
31 :1 (2022) , p. 64-82
ISI
000753172100004
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UAntwerpen
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Creation 30.11.2020
Last edited 05.01.2025
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