Cyber4Dev Security Culture Model for African Countries

Abstract

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 in reducing the effects of human habits that lead to data breaches. This article seeks to conduct a scoping review of the scholarly literature on Cyber Resilience for Development (Cyber4Dev) security culture within the context of Afri-can countries. With limited scholarly articles available for Cyber4Dev, the re-view will focus on information security culture to adapt it to a Cyber4Dev security culture that organizations in Africa can replicate. Using the Preferred Re-porting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) for the scoping review, this paper analysed 40 scholarly articles on information security culture to propose a Cyber4Dev security culture model for organizations applicable within an African context. Economic, social-culture and trust were identified as some of the factors to consider in an African context to promote an information security culture. Organisations can consider these factors as part of their information security programs. The model serves as reference for further research to explore the influence of the identified factors in an African context.