What is the most significant threat to workplace cyber security breaches? It may just be the complacency of the person in the cubicle next to you.
Five years after first presenting his concept at the 2016 Dewald Roode Workshop on Behavioral Information Security, Dr. Tom Stafford has published his grounded theory development of a mid-range Theory of Cybersecurity Complacency. His article, “Platform-Dependent Computer Security Complacency: The Unrecognized Insider Threat” was published in
IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management (IEEE-TEM), an elite academic journal of the Technology and Engineering Management Society of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
According to Stafford, cyber security research has traditionally presumed a criminal justice model of non-secure behaviors in the workplace—a thought that most security breaches arise from the actions of bad actors in the firm.