Cyber Awareness for Stress

The article I read was “Impact of Cybersecurity and AI’s Related Factors on Incident Reporting Suspicious Behavior and Employees Stress: Moderating Role of Cybersecurity Training”. The reason I selected it because the key phrase moderating cybersecurity training in the title stuck out to me and the word stress. I work at a law firm where we are constantly figuring out ways to implement cybersecurity training in such a fast-paced place. Lawyers do things in a crunch, so it is easy to be stress or not pay attention to something if you are working a case. I agree that stress at work can cloud your judgement in making smart cybersecurity decisions. As well as This article best correlates with principle of social sciences in through determinism in my eyes. Because the answer could be stress or that people just do not care. But using an idiographic model can identify the causes overtime to back that stress is a factor. In addition, we can look at this through the lens of the attackers on these people would be cognitive theory. As the type of hackers to target these people would prey on their ability to not think because of stressful work environments. Even can go to the extent of saying they would lead with the fact they deserved to get hack for their lack of knowledge and allowing the emotion of stress let them be vulnerable. But I digress, after reading the article all the hypotheses were great but hypothesis 5 stood out the most out of them all. It stated, “Cybersecurity Training moderates the relationship between Cybersecurity Incident Management and Incident Reporting Suspicious Behavior.” Which in conclusion ended up being true that those with more security awareness made better decisions than those without. The author stated “Employees with heightened cybersecurity awareness   contribute   significantly   to   the   efficiency   of   incident   response   and management processes” (Vimala Venugopal Muthuswamy , Suresh Esakki, 2024, p.14). In the article they mention the use of AI as well but only saw it being helpful when workers were trained to use it. Otherwise, it added stress because they did not know how to use it in ways to help them. For their research they used six different tables to break down descriptive statistics, convergent validity, meditation and etc. Which they broke down each skill/tool like cyber security awareness (CSA), intention to use AI (IU-AI), employee stress level (ESL) and a few more. From there they input those things into the 6 different tables to weigh amongst each other. Which gave use the readers a better view once it was broken down. In addition, a brief paragraph describing what each table read. All and all the journal was well put together from start to finish. Giving a clear outline on the studies/test put in place to support the conclusion. Hope this gives you a brief synopsis of this article and encourages you to go read it. Do you feel stress affects your cybersecurity awareness?