Optimistic Bias and Exposure Affect Security Incidents on Home Computer

Hewitt, Barbara; White, Garry L.

doi:10.1080/08874417.2019.1697860

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“…Thus, this research indicates that the more education these individuals had, they feel less vulnerable to security breaches and less vulnerable than their peers since they also indicated they were less likely to experience a breach than their counterparts. These results support the findings of Hewitt and White (2020) who also found that those who were more COB had more education. CSET impacted their technical optimism as well but the more CSET a person received, the more they perceive the less technical optimism they had.…”

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“…They did not explore other protective measures such as applying patches or installing malware protection. Recently, cyber optimistic bias (COB) was explored as an antecedent to protective measures (Hewitt & White, 2020), but the study focused on university students. Thus, this study will explore variables that we believe should be incorporated into those models using a general population from the United States.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Factors Influencing Security Incidents on Personal Computing Devices

Hewitt

White

2021

Journal of Organizational and End User Computing

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Organizations expect their employees to connect securely to the organization's computer systems. Often these employees use their personal computers to access the organization's networks. This research explores whether these same employees apply protective security measures to their personal computers. Perhaps these employees behave riskily based on their optimistic bias. Results indicate that while cyber optimistic bias and perceived vulnerability influence individuals to apply more protective security measures, the users still experienced security incidents. Thus, organization are vulnerable to cyber-attacks if they are allowing employees to use personal computers to access these databases.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

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Factors Influencing Security Incidents on Personal Computing Devices

Hewitt

White

2021

Journal of Organizational and End User Computing

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“…However, the scarce presence of negative aspects of ETs in participants' contributions could not really indicate that implementing ETs has no problems. According to [56], persons with inadequate knowledge about a technology are more likely to be influenced by so-called optimistic bias, an attitude that fades as the persons become more knowledgeable about the technology. The scarce presence of details in participants' visions regarding the integration of technologies with their disciplines leads us to suggest that the participants might have insufficient knowledge about the relationship between the practical realities of the technology and their discipline-explaining the optimistic bias.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Perceptions about the Future of Integrating Emerging Technologies into Higher Education—The Case of Robotics with Artificial Intelligence

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Emerging technologies (ETs) will most likely have a strong impact on education (starting with higher education), just like they have already had in so many economic and social areas. This paper is based on the results obtained in the project “My Future Colleague Robot”, an initiative that aimed to improve the competence of university teaching staff regarding the introduction of ETs in teaching practices at university level. In this paper, we identified the strengths and weaknesses, opportunities, and threats that are related to the adoption in higher education of the combination of two ETs: robotics together with artificial intelligence (AI). Additionally, we analyzed the perceptions of university-level teaching staff about the potential of introducing ETs in education. The empirical data presented here were collected using written essays from 18 university teachers and students. Deductive and inductive approaches with thematic analysis were used for the data analysis. The findings support the idea that previous ET-related experience can support positive attitudes and the implementations of ETs in university teaching; in this study, university teachers had optimistic expectations towards ETs, accepting them as part of teaching practice development, while discussion about the negative effects of ETs was negligible.

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“…However, the scarce presence of negative aspects of ETs in participants' contributions could not really indicate that implementing ETs has no problems. According to [40], persons with inadequate knowledge about a technology are more likely to be influenced by so-called optimistic bias, an attitude that fades as the persons become more knowledgeable about the technology. The scarce presence of details in participants' visions regarding the integration of technologies with their disciplines leads us to suggest that the participants might have insufficient knowledge about the relationship between the practical realities of the technology and their discipline -explaining the optimistic bias.…”

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confidence: 99%

Integrating Emerging Technologies into Higher Education – The Future Perceptions

Leoste¹,

Jõgi²,

Õun³

et al. 2021

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Emerging technologies have a potential future impact on the developments in higher education and teaching practices at the universities. The paper is based on the project “My future colleague robot” that aims to improve the competence of university teachers in the implementation of Emerging Technologies (ETs) in the teaching practices at the university. In this paper, we identified the strengths and weaknesses, opportunities and threats that are related to the adoption of two ETs, robotics and Artificial Intelligence (AI), in higher education. Additionally, we analyzed the perceptions of faculty about these ETs. The empirical data was collected using written essays from 18 university teachers and students. Deductive and inductive approaches with thematic analysis were used for the data analysis. The findings support the idea that previous experience related to ETs can support positive attitudes and the implementations of ET in university teaching. University teachers had optimistic expectations towards ETs accepting them as part of teaching practice development, while discussion about the negative effects of ETs was negligible.

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Optimistic Bias and Exposure Affect Security Incidents on Home Computer

Cited by 16 publications

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Factors Influencing Security Incidents on Personal Computing Devices

Factors Influencing Security Incidents on Personal Computing Devices

Perceptions about the Future of Integrating Emerging Technologies into Higher Education—The Case of Robotics with Artificial Intelligence

Integrating Emerging Technologies into Higher Education – The Future Perceptions

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