Behavior Change Interventions for Cybersecurity

Pamela Briggs; Debbie Jeske; Lynne Coventry

doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-802690-8.00004-9

Behavior Change Interventions for Cybersecurity

Pamela Briggs, Debbie Jeske, Lynne Coventry

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Abstract

While behavior change methods have become relatively commonplace in the health domain, they have only recently been applied to the cybersecurity field. In this chapter we review two fundamentally different approaches to behavior change in cybersecurity. First we explore “nudging” and behavioral interventions arising from the MINDSPACE framework. Second we explore the more theoretically based Protection Motivation Theory (PMT) as a framework for introducing behavior change. Finally we consider the relationship between these two approaches.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Behavior Change Research and Theory
Place of Publication	Amsterdam
Publisher	Elsevier
Pages	115-136
Number of pages	208
ISBN (Print)	9780128026908
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-802690-8.00004-9
Publication status	Published - 2017

Keywords

cybersecurity
nudge
protection motivation theory
MINDSPACE

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