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Developing a cyber security culture: Current practices and future needs

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Betsy Uchendu
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Jason R. C. Nurse *
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Maria Bada
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Steven Furnell
DOI:10.1016/j.cose.2021.102387delete
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While the creation of a strong security culture has been researched and discussed for decades, it continues to elude many businesses. Part of the challenge faced is distilling per-tinent, recent academic findings and research into useful guidance. In this article, we aim to tackle this issue by conducting a state-of-the-art study into organisational cyber secu-rity culture research. This work investigates four questions, including how cyber security culture is defined, what factors are essential to building and maintaining such a culture, the frameworks proposed to cultivate a security culture and the metrics suggested to as-sess it. Through the application of the PRISMA systematic literature review technique, we identify and analyse 58 research articles from the last 10 years (2010-2020). Our findings demonstrate that while there have been notable changes in the use of terms (e.g., informa-tion security culture and cyber security culture), many of the most influential factors are similar. Top management support, policy and procedures, and awareness for instance, are critical in engendering cyber security culture. Many of the frameworks reviewed revealed common foundations, with organisational culture playing a substantial role in crafting ap-propriate cyber security culture models. Questionnaires and surveys are the most used tool to measure cyber security culture, but there are also concerns as to whether more dynamic measures are needed. For practitioners, this article highlights factors and models essen-tial to the creation and management of a robust security culture. For research, we produce an up-to-date characterisation of the field and also define open issues deserving of further attention such as the role of change management processes and national culture in an en-terprise's cyber security culture. (c) 2021 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Keywords:
Cybersecurity culture
Information security culture
Security awareness
Organisational culture
Management
SMEs
Business
Behaviour
Psychology
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