The recent surge in phishing incidents in the post-COVID era poses a serious threat towards
the social and economic well-being of users. The escalation in dependency upon the …

Employees' failure to comply with IS security procedures is a key concern for organizations
today. A number of socio-cognitive theories have been used to explain this. However, prior …

Purpose–The purpose of this literature review is to analyze current trends in information
security and suggest future directions for research. Design/methodology/approach–The …

Recent widely publicized data breaches have exposed the personal information of hundreds
of millions of people. Some reports point to alarming increases in both the size and …

This study aims to understand the IT threat avoidance behaviors of personal computer users.
We tested a research model derived from Technology Threat Avoidance Theory (TTAT) …

This paper describes the development of the technology threat avoidance theory (TTAT),
which explains individual IT users' behavior of avoiding the threat of malicious information …

The literature agrees that the major threat to IS security is constituted by careless employees
who do not comply with organizations' IS security policies and procedures. To address this …

While there is a rich body of literature on user acceptance of technologies with positive
outcomes, little is known about user behavior toward what we call protective technologies …

Unethical information technology (IT) use, related to activities such as hacking, software
piracy, phishing, and spoofing, has become a major security concern for individuals …

Purpose–This study proposes to put forward and test a theoretical model that demonstrates
the influence of top management support on an organization's security culture and level of …