Raising Information Security Awareness in the Field of Urban and Regional Planning

Abstract

IT is being increasingly used in most areas of life. With the IoT, this technology is set to be in a state of continuous evolution in urban and regional settings. The ongoing development of digitalization processes also increases the possibilities of abuse—both at the technical and interpersonal level. Better information security (IS) awareness (ISA) and knowledge about the dangers that accompany digitalization and the corresponding protective measures are important in private and work life. However, ISA is often overlooked. Training the relevant awareness and skills should also be included in urban and regional planning for citizens. This article thus provides a review of the scientific literature of leading academic journals in the area of IS and the transfer of scientific knowledge for practical purposes. The article presents Serious Games as a way to achieve a deeper understanding of how to promote sustainable ISA using creative methods. Furthermore, ideas of how to apply the Fun Theory and its practice to integrate awareness into modern urban and regional planning will be discussed.

Geographical Image Feature Analysis of Spiking Neural Network Considering Regional Information

“…The effectiveness of feature selection is directly the biggest factor affecting the classification accuracy. If the selected features are few, the accuracy of the classification accuracy will be affected, and the many features will affect the calculation speed, and the implementation is more complicated [10][11].…”

Information Security Awareness in Public Administrations

“…The overall goal of scientific literature in this research field is to get a better understanding of people's behavior and to develop it in the proper way [13]. Therefore, a large spectrum of theories has been consulted in this context to gain knowledge of actual security behavior and the factors that [34]. For example, Briggs et al (2017) provide a historical overview of Protection Motivation Theory (PMT) and apply it to cybersecurity [35]).…”

“…It should be noted that it is the Länder and Kommunen that represent the main proportion of employees in Germany's public administration; the proportion constituted by the federal government is only about one-eighth of the total number of employees. Moreover, public administrations are also responsible to their citizens, and the question arises as to whether information campaigns on IS in public places should not also be part of urban and regional planning [34].…”

“…• A third aspect relating to IS campaigns is that a training aimed at addressing security awareness gaps cannot be sufficient to ensure compliance with a security culture [74]. The necessary cultural change in institutions must go hand in hand with a mutual learning process between the top-down requirements of the management and the bottom-up activities of the employees-described as a "spiral of transformative interaction" [13,34].…”

“…We seek to implement and test our conceptual project design on the transformative interaction between human-based and organizational (IS) learning processes and to promote in-depth ISA measurement in game-based learning environments. Situational and specific ISAT combined with IS awareness-raising measures and evaluation should be an indispensable part of today's organizations with livable IS and policies [34].…”