The problem of statistical power in MIS research
MIS Quarterly
The challenge of relating IS research to practice
Information Resources Management Journal - Special issue on the role of business in information technology research
Empirical research in information systems: the practice of relevance
MIS Quarterly - Special issue on intensive research in information systems
Pretty good persuasion: a first step towards effective password security in the real world
Proceedings of the 2001 workshop on New security paradigms
Combining IS Research Methods: Towards a Pluralist Methodology
Information Systems Research
Journal of Computer Security - IFIP 2000
Internet Users' Information Privacy Concerns (IUIPC): The Construct, the Scale, and a Causal Model
Information Systems Research
Investigating factors affecting the adoption of anti-spyware systems
Communications of the ACM - Spyware
Employees' Behavior towards IS Security Policy Compliance
HICSS '07 Proceedings of the 40th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
Promoting personal responsibility for internet safety
Communications of the ACM - Urban sensing: out of the woods
Computers in Human Behavior
Information Systems Research
ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems (TMIS)
Influencing mental models of security: a research agenda
Proceedings of the 2011 workshop on New security paradigms workshop
Fighting identity theft: The coping perspective
Decision Support Systems
Usability Design and Psychological Ownership of a Virtual World
Journal of Management Information Systems
Stories as informal lessons about security
Proceedings of the Eighth Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security
Proceedings of the 2012 Workshop on Learning from Authoritative Security Experiment Results
Usability Design and Psychological Ownership of a Virtual World
Journal of Management Information Systems
Modifying smartphone user locking behavior
Proceedings of the Ninth Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security
Modeling the Impact of Biometric Security on Millennials' Protection Motivation
Journal of Organizational and End User Computing
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Although firms are expending substantial resources to develop technology and processes that can help safeguard the security of their computing assets, increased attention is being focused on the role people play in maintaining a safe computing environment. Unlike employees in a work setting, home users are not subject to training, nor are they protected by a technical staff dedicated to keeping security software and hardware current. Thus, with over one billion people with access to the Internet, individual home computer users represent a significant point of weakness in achieving the security of the cyber infrastructure. We study the phenomenon of conscientious cybercitizens, defined as individuals who are motivated to take the necessary precautions under their direct control to secure their own computer and the Internet in a home setting. Using a multidisciplinary, phased approach, we develop a conceptual model of the conscientious cybercitizen. We present results from two studies-a survey and an experiment-conducted to understand the drivers of intentions to perform security-related behavior, and the interventions that can positively influence these drivers. In the first study, we use protection motivation theory as the underlying conceptual foundation and extend the theory by drawing upon the public goods literature and the concept of psychological ownership. Results from a survey of 594 home computer users from a wide range of demographic and socio-economic backgrounds suggest that a home computer user's intention to perform security-related behavior is influenced by a combination of cognitive, social, and psychological components. In the second study, we draw upon the concepts of goal framing and self-view to examine how the proximal drivers of intentions to perform security-related behavior identified in the first study can be influenced by appropriate messaging. An experiment with 101 subjects is used to test the research hypotheses. Overall, the two studies shed important new light on creating more conscientious cybercitizens. Theoretical and practical implications of the findings are discussed.