Cyber Security Culture

Cyber Security Culture is a research-based book focusing on cyber security and countermeasures against orchestrated cyber attacks. Reinforced with insights from experts who do not normally release data and information into the public arena, the book enables managers within organizations across different industrial sectors and government agencies to better understand how organizational learning and training can be utilized to develop a culture that will ultimately protect an organization from attacks. Peter trim and David Upton believe that the speed and complexity of cyber attacks demand a different approach to security management, including scenario-based planning and training, to supplement security polices and technical protection systems. The authors provide in-depth cover of issues such as how organizational learning can be used to produce cultural change that addresses the behaviour of individuals as well as machines. The book provides information that will help managers to form policy to prevent cyber intrusions, to put robust security systems and procedures in place and to arrange appropriate practical interventions such as table top exercises. Guidance for counteracting current and future threats is provided. In particular, issues such as social engineering are addressed and placed in context. Although the work is embedded in a theoretical framework, non-technical staff will find the book of practical use because although it deals with highly technical subjects, it makes them accessible to the non-specialist reader and links firmly with areas beyond ICT, such as human resource management in relation to bridging the education-training divide and allowing organizational learning to be embraced. This is a book for Government officials, policy advisors, law enforcement officers and senior managers within companies, as well as academics and students in a range of disciplines including management and computer science.