Tag: Information Security

Gamification in workforce training: Improving employees’ self-efficacy and information security and data protection behaviours

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Abstract This research aims to address two questions: (1) how can gamification strategies increase success of e-training systems and enhance employees’ information security and data protection self-efficacy? and (2) do gamified e-training systems improve employees’ information security and data protection…

UAH’s Dr. Liu earns NSF award for research to make wireless devices more efficient, secure

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Research to harness commonplace errors in wireless devices to make them usable and provide for better security and efficiency has won a University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering a five-year, $500,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award.

Some employees more likely to adhere to information security policies than others

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Information security policies (ISP) that are not grounded in the realities of an employee’s work responsibilities and priorities exposes organizations to higher risk for data breaches, according to new research from Binghamton University, State University of New York.