Browsing Open Research Collection by Author "Da Veiga, Adele"

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An approach to information security culture change combining ADKAR and the ISCA questionnaire to aid transition to the desired culture

Da Veiga, Adele (2018)

Purpose: Employee behaviour is a continuous concern owing to the number of information security incidents resulting from employee behaviour. The aim of this research is to propose an approach to information security culture ...
Chapter 5: Achieving a Security Culture

Da Veiga, Adele (IGI Global, Cybersecurity Education for Awareness and Compliance, 2019-02)

A security culture can be a competitive advantage when employees uphold strong values for the protection of information and exhibit behavior that is in compliance with policies, thereby introducing minimal incidents and ...
Comparing the information security culture of employees who had read the information security policy and those who had not

Da Veiga, Adele (Information & Computer Security (Emerald Journal), 2016)

Purpose – This study aims, firstly, to determine what influence the information security policy has on the information security culture by comparing the culture of employees who read the policy to those who do not, and, ...
Comparing the protection and use of online personal information in South Africa and the United Kingdom in line with data protection requirements

Da Veiga, Adele; Vorster, Ruthea; Fudong, Li; Nathan, Clarke; Steven M., Furnell (Elsevier, 2019)

Purpose: This research investigates the difference between South Africa (SA) and the United Kingdom (UK) in terms of data protection compliance with the aim to establish if a country that has had data protection in place ...
A conceptual framework for a student personal information privacy culture at universities in Zimbabwe

Da Veiga, Adele; Martins, Nico; Maguraushe, Kudakwashe (Kalpa Publications in Computing, 2019)

In this research, an information privacy culture is proposed to be embedded in three basic concepts: students’ privacy expectations, privacy awareness and confidence in universities’ capability to uphold information privacy. ...
Concern for information privacy in South Africa: An empirical study using the OIPCI

Da Veiga, Adele (Springer, Cham, 2020)

The information privacy concern of consumers concerning the processing of their personal information by online organizations (websites) is investigated in this study by means of a quantitative approach. An overview of ...
Concern for Information Privacy: A Cross-Nation Study of the United Kingdom and South Africa

Da Veiga, Adele; Ophoff, Jacques (Springer, Cham, 2020)

Individuals have differing levels of information privacy concern, formed by their expectations and the confidence they have that organisations meet this in practice. Variance in privacy laws and national factors may also ...
Cyber4Dev Security Culture Model for African Countries

Reppoh, Victor ; Da Veiga, Adele (Springer, Cham, 2022-07-06)

Creating a good information security culture among employees with-in organizations is the cornerstone for a safe and robust cyberspace. Further-more, a strong information security culture within organizations will assist ...
Cyber4Dev-Q: Calibrating cyber awareness in the developing country context

Renaud, Karen; Loock, Marianne; Da Veiga, Adele (Wiley, 2021)

Citizens of the hyper-connected world face tremendous challenges in managing their personal online risks; that is to preserve their cyber safety, cyber security and cyber privacy. Governments allocate significant resources ...
A Cybersecurity Culture Research Philosophy and Approach to Develop a Valid and Reliable Measuring Instrument

Da Veiga, Adele (SAI Computing Conference, 2016-07-13)

A cybersecurity culture must be promoted at an international, national, organizational, and individual level to aid in minimizing risks from a human perspective in cyberspace. To promote such a culture it has to be ...
Defining and identifying dominant information security cultures and subcultures

Da Veiga, Adele; Martins, Nico (Computers & Security (Elsevier Journal), 2017-05-12)

consider the possibility of several information security subcultures that could be present in the organisation. This means that different geographical, ethnic or age groups of employees could have different assumptions, ...
Factorial invariance of an information security culture assessment instrument for multinational organisations with operations across data protection jurisdictions

Da Veiga, Adele; Martins, Nico (Virtus Interpress, 2015-10)

An information security culture is influenced by various factors, one being regulatory requirements. The United Kingdom (UK) has been regulated through the UK Data Protection Act since 1995, whereas South Africa (SA) only ...
Improving the information security culture through monitoring and implementation actions illustrated though a case study

Da Veiga, Adele; Martins, Nico (Elsevier, 2015-01-05)

The human aspect, together with technology and process controls, needs to be considered as part of aninformation securityprogramme.Current and former employees are still regarded as one of the root causes of information ...
Improving the information security culture through monitoring and implementation actions illustrated through a case study.

Da Veiga, Adele; Martins, Nico (Elsevier, 2015)

The human aspect, together with technology and process controls, needs to be considered as part of an information security programme. Current and former employees are still regarded as one of the root causes of information ...
The Influence of Data Protection Regulation on the Information Security Culture of an Organisation - A Case Study Comparing Legislation and Offices across Jurisdictions

Da Veiga, Adele (2017-11)

one could be related to legal and regulatory requirements. While employees must comply with organisational policies, external factors like data protection legislation might influence the manner in which employees protect ...
The Influence of Information Security Policies on Information Security Culture: Illustrated through a case study

Da Veiga, Adele (University of Plymouth, 2015-07-01)

An information security-positive culture is required in organisations where employees process information in line with its confidentiality, sensitivity and privacy requirements. The information security policy serves as ...
An Information Privacy Culture Index Framework and Instrument to Measure Privacy Perceptions across Nations: Results of an Empirical Study

Da Veiga, Adele (Plymouth University, 2017-11)

This research proposes an Information Privacy Culture Index Framework (IPCIF) with a related Information Privacy Culture Index Instrument (IPCII) to measure privacy perceptions across nations. The proposed framework is ...
An information privacy culture instrument to measure consumer privacy expectations and confidence

Da Veiga, Adele (Emerald, 2018)

Purpose This paper aims to propose an information privacy culture index framework (IPCIF) with a validated information privacy culture index instrument (IPCII) to measure information privacy culture across nations. The ...
Information security culture - validation of an assessment instrument

Da Veiga, Adele; Eloff, J.H.P; Martins, Nico (2007-04)

Organisations need to ensure that the interaction among people, as well as between people and information technology (IT) systems, contributes to the protection of information assets. Organisations therefore need to assess ...
Information security culture and information protection culture: A validated assessment instrument

Da Veiga, Adele; Martins, Nico (Elsevier, 2015)

A strong information protection culture is required in organisations where the confidentiality, sensitivity and privacy of information are understood and handled accordingly. This is necessary to reduce the risk of human ...

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