Human elements impacting risky habits in cybersecurity

Abstract

Human elements in security or cybersecurity, in particular, have been an area, which has been less explored and underrated. Data leaks, Cyber-attacks, and malware attacks, which consequences of failures triggered by humans, are constantly raising. In fact, ninety-five percent of the cyber events are human-triggered or enabled. Several elements related to humans, such as (not limited to) psychological, situational, time pressure, characteristics, biases, influence cybersecurity habits. Through theme extraction using WordStar 8 and manual scanning of the chosen research papers, we fixated on such six significant human-related components or variables, which impact cybersecurity practices through a careful Systematic Literature Review. The paper shows how these components affect cybersecurity conduct and shows how these components are related and can often (all things are considered) lead to dangerous security practices. A significant research question investigated is how these elements affect cybersecurity conduct. We have drawn data for this study principally dependent on secondary research to create a theoretical framework that depicts the consequences of various human elements on one another, which influences cybersecurity propensities. We likewise clarify why a comprehension of human-related components or variables identified with digital security is significant and can add to fruitful innovations and programming. A thing to note here is that the study area, despite everything, remains not a completely examined field, and subsequently, specialized papers for this literature review were difficult to find. This examination is utilized as a base for more work to decrease the human variables driving cyber-attacks that have seen a sensational increment in the world of innovation, technology, and the web.