Investigating the impact of cybersecurity culture on employees’ cybersecurity protection behaviors: A Conceptual Paper

As technology and digital applications increase in volume and complexity, organization
is facing greater security risks in cyberspace more than ever before. However, organizational
cybersecurity requires more than just the latest technology. All the technology available to secure
systems will not keep an organization secure if the people in the organization make bad or
unexpected decisions that open up the system to attackers. To secure an organization, all
employees of the organization must act positively to reduce company risks from cyberattacks. All
leaders have a main responsibility to understand and align with the entire organization with
cybersecurity objectives. Leaders need to keep continue to invest in security technologies and
also need practical solutions for dealing with the human error of cybersecurity. The conceptual
paper presented in this paper describes cybersecurity culture, external influencing factors, and
organizational mechanisms, the elements that contribute to each employee of the organization
that having protection behaviour from cyberattacks.