The Right Tool for the Job: Contextualization of Cybersecurity Education and Assessment Methods

Daniel Köhler, Christoph Meinel

2024

Abstract

Today, cybersecurity attacks are one of the significant threats companies face. Employees, often the weakest link in the cybersecurity chain, are sensitized to threats in cyberspace by implemented cybersecurity awareness and education programs in companies. Success if often rated using obligatory quizzes. Those, however, do not accurately depict actual employee behavior; they only test for knowledge. Companies often lack accurate measures to validate the success of cybersecurity awareness measures. We aggregate previous literature on measures for education and assessment in the context of cybersecurity awareness and present a taxonomy of education and assessment measures, categorizing them for context, applicability, and effort while summarizing (dis-) advantages identified in previous research. Thereby, we enable easier decisions on specific cybersecurity awareness education and assessment methods for decision-makers with specific restraints.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Köhler D. and Meinel C. (2024). The Right Tool for the Job: Contextualization of Cybersecurity Education and Assessment Methods. In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy - Volume 1: ICISSP; ISBN 978-989-758-683-5, SciTePress, pages 234-241. DOI: 10.5220/0012457900003648

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icissp24,
author={Daniel Köhler and Christoph Meinel},
title={The Right Tool for the Job: Contextualization of Cybersecurity Education and Assessment Methods},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy - Volume 1: ICISSP},
year={2024},
pages={234-241},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0012457900003648},
isbn={978-989-758-683-5},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy - Volume 1: ICISSP
TI - The Right Tool for the Job: Contextualization of Cybersecurity Education and Assessment Methods
SN - 978-989-758-683-5
AU - Köhler D.
AU - Meinel C.
PY - 2024
SP - 234
EP - 241
DO - 10.5220/0012457900003648
PB - SciTePress