A12 | “People are just doing dumb things!” Using Personal Construct Psychology to understand employee reactions to Cyber Security Training programs. | Rapid research 20 mins
Tracks
Track A | Lagoon Room 1 l Filmed
| Thursday, July 7, 2022 |
| 3:40 PM - 4:00 PM |
| Lagoon Room 1 |
Overview
Due to COVID this will be a played recording
Presenter
Mr Andrew Reeves
“People are just doing dumb things!” Using Personal Construct Psychology to understand employee reactions to Cyber Security Training programs.
3:40 PM - 4:00 PMPromotional description
Have you ever considered how Organisational Psychology can assist in the fight against cyber attackers? Cyber security continues to be a significant growth area, remaining one of the top 9 funding priorities of the Australian Government ARC since 2019. Naïve and non-malicious actions of employees continue to be one of the biggest threats to workplace cyber security, which means Organisational Psychologists are uniquely positioned to assist businesses in protecting their sensitive data from this threat. This talk outlines some of the pitfalls commonly found in existing cyber security training and the barriers that exist which prevent employees from performing best-practice cyber security behaviour.
Learning outcomes
- Understand the value Organisational Psychologists can bring to the Cyber Security field.
- Understand an example of how a contextualist approach adapted from personal construct psychology can assist businesses to identifying barriers to effective training knowledge transfer.
- Know the common blockers in Australian workplaces that prevent best-practice cyber security behaviour.
- Understand an example of how a contextualist approach adapted from personal construct psychology can assist businesses to identifying barriers to effective training knowledge transfer.
- Know the common blockers in Australian workplaces that prevent best-practice cyber security behaviour.
Author(s)
Reeves, Andrew;
Delfabbro, Paul;
Pittas (nee Calic), Dragana
Delfabbro, Paul;
Pittas (nee Calic), Dragana
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Andrew Reeves is a combined PhD/Master of Psychology (Organisational and Human Factors) candidate at the University of Adelaide. He holds Research and Teaching assistant positions across the University and the Department of Defence, Science and Technology (DST), and he is a provisional Psychologist. His research investigates how employee fatigue can influence cybersecurity behaviour in the workplace, and has been presented most recently at the 22nd International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCII2020) in Copenhagen, Denmark. He has previously presented at the 13th annual APS Industrial and Organisational Psychology Conference (IOP2019), the Data61 Defence Science and Technology Research Showcase (2019), the international symposium on Human Aspects of Information Security and Assurance (HAISA2017), and the Australasian Conference of Undergraduate Research (ACUR2017).
