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A Novel Approach to the Behavioral Aspects of Cybersecurity
The Internet and cyberspace are inseparable aspects of everyone's life.
Cyberspace is a concept that describes widespread, interconnected, and online
digital technology. Cyberspace refers to the online world that is separate from
everyday reality. Since the internet is a recent advance in human lives, there
are many unknown and unpredictable aspects to it that sometimes can be
catastrophic to users in financial aspects, high-tech industry, and healthcare.
Cybersecurity failures are usually caused by human errors or their lack of
knowledge. According to the International Business Machines Corporation (IBM)
X-Force Threat Intelligence Index in 2020, around 8.5 billion records were
compromised in 2019 due to failures of insiders, which is an increase of more
than 200 percent compared to the compromised records in 2018. In another survey
performed by the Ernst and Young Global Information Security during 2018-2019,
it is reported that 34% of the organizations stated that employees who are
inattentive or do not have the necessary knowledge are the principal
vulnerabilities of cybersecurity, and 22% of the organizations indicated that
phishing is the main threat to them. Inattentive users are one of the reasons
for data breaches and cyberattacks. The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC)
in the United Kingdom observed that 23.2 million users who were victims of
cybersecurity attacks used a carelessly selected password, which is 123456, as
their account password. The Annual Cybersecurity Report published by Cisco in
2018 announced that phishing and spear phishing emails are the root causes of
many cybersecurity attacks in recent years. Hence, enhancing the cybersecurity
behaviors of both personal users and organizations can protect vulnerable users
from cyber threats. Both human factors and technological aspects of
cybersecurity should be addressed in organizations for a safer environment