Organizational Science and Cybersecurity: Abundant Opportunities for Research at the Interface

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• Personal Author:
  Bennett RJ ; Brummel BJ ; Dalal RS ; Howard DJ ; Posey C ; Zaccaro SJ
• Description:
  Cybersecurity is an ever-present problem for organizations, but organizational science has barely begun to enter the arena of cybersecurity research. As a result, the "human factor" in cybersecurity research is much less studied than its technological counterpart. The current manuscript serves as an introduction and invitation to cybersecurity research by organizational scientists. We define cybersecurity, provide definitions of key cybersecurity constructs relevant to employee behavior, illuminate the unique opportunities available to organizational scientists in the cybersecurity arena (e.g., publication venues that reach new audiences, novel sources of external funding), and provide overall conceptual frameworks of the antecedents of employees' cybersecurity behavior. In so doing, we emphasize both end-users of cybersecurity in organizations and employees focused specifically on cybersecurity work. We provide an expansive agenda for future organizational science research on cybersecurity-and we describe the benefits such research can provide not only to cybersecurity but also to basic research in organizational science itself. We end by providing a list of potential objections to the proposed research along with our responses to these objections. It is our hope that the current manuscript will catalyze research at the interface of organizational science and cybersecurity [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Behavior Men Occupational Health Safety Women Workplace
• Keywords:
  Author Keywords: Cybersecurity Employees Humans Incident Response Information Security Insider Threat Key Performance Indicators Multiteam System Phishing Security Information And Event Management Security Operations Center Social Engineering Work Environment Workers

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• ISSN:
  0889-3268
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Florida ; Oklahoma ; OSHA Region 3 ; OSHA Region 4 ; OSHA Region 6 ; Virginia
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-29
• Volume:
  37
• Issue:
  1
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20064609
• Citation:
  J Bus Psychol 2022 Feb; 37(1):1-29
• Contact Point Address:
  Reeshad S. Dalal, Department of Psychology, George Mason University, 4400 University Drive, MSN 3F5, Fairfax, VA 22030-4444
• Email:
  rdalal@gmu.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2022
• Performing Organization:
  Sunshine Education and Research Center, University of South Florida
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20050701
• Source Full Name:
  Journal of Business and Psychology
• End Date:
  20290630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:c7782718a4131e1449c2aa7fa5bb0b9a9244d00d160cf6475857c1f2c3df0cc2aea752ce3981f169e9ff046a7b484ddbe9f878b592a55c846a592fd0ad4aba5c
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/223043/cdc_223043_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.05 MB ]