User's Behaviors Influence on Cybersecurity Strategy Effectiveness

Hasna Elkhannoubi, Mustapha Belaissaoui

Cybersecurity, User's behavior, information management, information technology, human factor.

Most of past research in the area of information systems’ security has primarily focused on the technical dimension without paying attention to the human factors. The traditional conception of cybersecurity strategy hasn’t take into account the organizational level, since organizations may not have employed the most critical key of success: Users’ behavior. This paper focuses on users’ behaviors over the cybersecurity strategy. The purpose of this study is to assert the influence of users’ behaviors on the effectiveness of cybersecurity strategy via an empirical study shared with more than 2000 users. The paper describes the user’s behavior modeling diagram based on Bayesian networks for user modeling, and identifies the continued usage behavior diagram based on the Expectation-Confirmation Model. In this research program we arm that users’ behaviors have an important impact on data safety and security, and even if the robustness of the organization’s cybersecurity strategy, the users’ behavior can influence on their effectiveness. The finding may help information security professionals to define a user charter, which control user's behavior in a specific environment.

10.22161/ijaers/3.10.30