Protecting organizational information systems and information assets is a complex undertaking for both security professionals and end-users. In this episode of Cyber Ways, we discuss behavioral complexity as it relates to end-users' security behaviors with Dr. Clay Posey of Brigham Young University and Dr. Tom Roberts of the University of Texas at Tyler. We talk with Drs. Posey and Roberts about their 2017 paper, Insiders' Adaptations to Security-Based Demands in the Workplace: An Examination of Security Behavioral Control, which was published in Information Systems Frontiers.

Security Roles:

• Account protection
• Reporting of suspicious behavior
• Policy-driven awareness and action
• Verbal and electronic sensitive-information protection
• Legitimate email handling
• Protection against unauthorized exposure
• Distinctive security etiquette
• Secure software, email, and Internet use
• Appropriate data entry and management
• Wireless installation
• Widely applicable security etiquette
• Co-worker reliance
• Document conversion
• Equipment location and storage

Burns, A. J., Posey, C., & Roberts, T. L. (2021). Insiders’ adaptations to security-based demands in the workplace: An examination of security behavioral complexity. Information Systems Frontiers, 23(2), 343-

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