Alexander Conrad
Spring CYSE201S
02/11/2024
Article Review #1:
Of Factors Effecting Cyber Incident Occurrence: Mediating Role of Cyber Incident Reporting Mechanism
BLUF
Cybersecurity is a huge factor that is very important for organizations because of the security it brings them to keep their data safe. This article goes over the different factors that affect the occurrence of cyber incidents and attacks that take place within organizations. It also relates to the social science principles, hypotheses and how they research those hypotheses, why it relates to our class and overall society benefits.
Social science principles
The article provides references to social science principles. The principles that it refers to would be Relativism, Determinism, and Parsimony. The topic considers different ideas and opinions to find out if factors effect the cyber incidents, it can be determined through the use and confirmation of the hypotheses using the research they provided, and how they provided the research is through their simple effective theories.
Hypotheses
The hypotheses that they provided in this article were Cyber Incident reporting mechanism mediates the relationship between organizational innovativeness culture and Cyber incident occurrence. Cyber incident reporting mechanism mediates the relationship between Employee training awareness and Cyber incident occurrence. Cyber Incident reporting mechanism mediates the relationship between access control & monitoring and Cyber incident occurrence. Cyber Incident reporting mechanism mediates the relationship between Employee satisfaction and Cyber incident occurrence. Cyber Incident reporting mechanism mediates the relationship between insider threat detection & reporting and Cyber incident occurrence. All but the first hypothesis and fourth hypothesis were proven correct through the use of the data in the research (Bhatti, M., & Jamil, S. (2023)).
Research methods
The authors of the article conducted their research methods through the use of data that was collected from a sample of 219 employees that all ranged from various positions and worked in different departments (Bhatti, M., & Jamil, S. (2023)). The data determined whether or not the hypotheses could be proven based on the Cyber incident reporting mechanisms and if they effected the result of the cyber incident report. They used different variables to test if these effects directly or indirectly effected the reporting, which in using this data it is proved that certain variables do impact the cyber incident reporting’s.
How it relates to the class
This article refers concepts that we have talked about in the class about overall security on the cyberspace with computer hacking, cyber victimization, and the social factor of cybersecurity. The social factor would be the people working and working with the variables used directly impacting how effective computer hacking can be on an organization. Some of these factors come with victimization which many believe its not their fault when they could have done more to protect themselves.
How it relates to challenges of marginalized groups
Since the data directly showed that variables relating to the security of the company or business do depend on the people working and their knowledge on cybersecurity, the challenges faced by marginalized groups would be those without the knowledge or experience to learn to stay safe on the cyberspace and funding for the cyber protection.
Overall societal contributions
This article contributes to the study of cyber social sciences by using the same principles like relativism and also by showing just how important the social factor effects cyber incidents.
Conclusion
To summarize everything that has been stated thus far, this article refers to the factors that effect how a cyber incident may be reported. Using the hypotheses created and proving them with the data in the research methods, social factors can impact the effectiveness of these reports.
References:
Bhatti, M., & Jamil, S. (2023). Factors Effecting Cyber Incident Occurrence: Mediating Role of Cyber Incident Reporting Mechanism. International Journal of Cyber Criminology. Vol 17 Issue 2 July – December 2023:https://cybercrimejournal.com/menuscript/index.php/cybercrimejournal/article/view/193/73