Cybersecurity And Cultural Dimensions

Some of the topics we re going to dive into during this podcast episode include cultural dimensions geography of thought and values as a vector for attack.

Cybersecurity and cultural dimensions. Sample has over 20 years experience in the information security industry. My own work has been focused on bringing the social sciences continue reading cultural and social dimensions. This means there needs to be an established agreement assessing what data and. With cybersecurity culture in the workplace plays a big role in the entire organization and its security posture.

Early quello center research in this area included a project entitled the economics of malware 2006 08 in which professor michel van eeten john groenewegen and walter lemstra at the technical university of delft the netherlands examined the economic incentives of players in the information and communication dynamics of malware. Cybersecurity culture in the workplace is more than pushing policies without proper explanation and telling your employees they need to change their passwords regularly. A successful cybersecurity culture cannot exist without first identifying your organization s risk tolerance. Sample continues her research on modeling cyber behaviors by culture she has most recently focused her research on fake news the role of cultural values in cyber security events and the study of the relationship between human cognition and machines.

I have been working over the past years with oxford s global cyber security capacity centre gcscc which is associated with the oxford martin school and department of computer science at oxford as well as several other departments including the oii and saïd business school. Power distance masculinity femininity individualism collectivism uncertainty avoidance long term short term orientation and the research found out that individualism and long term orientation were significantly correlated with cybersecurity development. But this podcast chat is not what you will expect to hear when it comes to culture. At the same time it is important to recognise that a cyber security mindset is but one possible aspect of social and cultural dimensions of cyber security that need to be addressed alongside allied efforts to enhance educational technical organisational business policy and regulatory approaches to cyber security.

Five cultural dimensions were used in the study.