Why employees share information security advice? Exploring the contributing factors and structural patterns of security advice sharing in the workplace

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Highlights:

• We used ERGM to study the patterns and formation of security advice network.

• Positive security attitude and accountability increase sharing security advice.

• Employees who share security advice also give troubleshooting & work advice.

• Employees seek security advice from colleagues whom they trust.

• Security advice network tends to be transitive and not reciprocal.

摘要

•We used ERGM to study the patterns and formation of security advice network.•Positive security attitude and accountability increase sharing security advice.•Employees who share security advice also give troubleshooting & work advice.•Employees seek security advice from colleagues whom they trust.•Security advice network tends to be transitive and not reciprocal.

论文关键词:Information security behaviour,Information security management,Knowledge sharing,Social network analysis,Exponential random graph modeling

论文评审过程:Received 16 March 2016, Revised 1 October 2016, Accepted 25 October 2016, Available online 1 November 2016, Version of Record 5 December 2016.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2016.10.025