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Drivers of information security search behavior: An investigation of network attacks and vulnerability disclosures

Drivers of information security search behavior: An investigation of network attacks and... Drivers of Information Security Search Behavior: An Investigation of Network Attacks and Vulnerability Disclosures JINGGUO WANG The University of Texas at Arlington and NAN XIAO and H. RAGHAV RAO University at Buffalo More and more people use search engines to seek for various information. This study investigates the search behavior that drives the search for information security knowledge via a search engine. Based on theories in information search and information security behavior we examine the effects of network attacks and vulnerability disclosures on search for information security knowledge by ordinary users. We construct a unique dataset from publicly available sources, and use a dynamic regression model to test the hypotheses empirically. We nd that network attacks of current day and one day prior signi cantly impact the search, while vulnerability disclosure does not signi cantly affect the search. Implications of the study are discussed. Categories and Subject Descriptors: H.3.3 [Information Storage and Retrieval]: Information Search and Retrieval ”Search process General Terms: Security, Management, Human Factors Additional Key Words and Phrases: Information systems, information security, information search behavior, search engine, network attacks, vulnerability disclosures, dynamic regression An early version of this article was presented at the 8th Workshop on http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems (TMIS) Association for Computing Machinery

Drivers of information security search behavior: An investigation of network attacks and vulnerability disclosures

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Drivers of Information Security Search Behavior: An Investigation of Network Attacks and Vulnerability Disclosures JINGGUO WANG The University of Texas at Arlington and NAN XIAO and H. RAGHAV RAO University at Buffalo More and more people use search engines to seek for various information. This study investigates the search behavior that drives the search for information security knowledge via a search engine. Based on theories in information search and information security behavior we examine the effects of network attacks and vulnerability disclosures on search for information security knowledge by ordinary users. We construct a unique dataset from publicly available sources, and use a dynamic regression model to test the hypotheses empirically. We nd that network attacks of current day and one day prior signi cantly impact the search, while vulnerability disclosure does not signi cantly affect the search. Implications of the study are discussed. Categories and Subject Descriptors: H.3.3 [Information Storage and Retrieval]: Information Search and Retrieval ”Search process General Terms: Security, Management, Human Factors Additional Key Words and Phrases: Information systems, information security, information search behavior, search engine, network attacks, vulnerability disclosures, dynamic regression An early version of this article was presented at the 8th Workshop on

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ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems (TMIS) – Association for Computing Machinery

Published: Dec 1, 2010

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