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Evaluating Human-Centric Cybersecurity Training Effectiveness in High-Risk Organizational Environments and Remote Work Settings

Human factors are critical to cybersecurity, yet the efficacy of specific training interventions remains variable across different organizational structures. This study explores how targeted behavioral training impacts employee adherence to security protocols in high-risk environments.

Open to researchMBA suitableQualified 78/100P4 provenance
Primary research question

To what extent do tailored human-centric cybersecurity interventions reduce vulnerability to social engineering attacks in remote work settings?

Knowledge gap

What remains worth asking

It remains useful to test how specific human factor interventions correlate with measurable reductions in security breaches.

Potential contribution

Why it may matter

Improving human-centric security is vital for mitigating the most common entry points for cyber threats.

Academic placement

OECD fields and topic tags

CybersecurityOrganizational PsychologyManagement Information Systems

Scope: Employees in organizations with high exposure to remote work and digital infrastructure. · Method signals: Experimental design, Surveys, Longitudinal analysis

Possible study pathways

One question, different levels

Professional master’s / MBA

Organizational risk management and human capital strategy.

Doctoral

Behavioral cybersecurity and socio-technical systems.

originalityModerate
methodologyModerate
Data accessModerate
ethicsAdvanced

Qualification signal

78/100

  • Addresses the critical role of human factors in cybersecurity.
  • Open-access scholarly source and DOI metadata verified

Provenance

Research Idea Registry curation

  • DOI and bibliographic metadata independently resolved
  • Open-access status verified
  • The research direction is transparently marked as AI-inferred
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APA 7 source

Tikanmäki, I., & Ruoslahti, H. (2024). Human Factors Make or Break Cybersecurity!. Information & Security: An International Journal, 55(3), 245-259. https://doi.org/10.11610/isij.5522

Paper abstract and discussion context; AI-inferred direction

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