By Jennifer Leggio for Zero Day | May 8, 2017 -- 12:30 GMT (05:30 PDT) | Topic: Security
CLTRe, a Norwegian security culture research company, today released its Security Culture Report 2017, which studied more than 10,000 employees across five verticals in two countries within the Nordics to determine how risk and security is understood and actioned.
The study was done in conjunction with University of Ljubljana.
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The more than 200-page report, which focuses on "insights into the human factor" and how attributes of security culture can impact the overall risk posture of an organization. It is unique in how it looks at age, experience, gender and attitudes influence risky behaviors and security culture.
According to the report, one of the main goals of this project was to demonstrate how security culture is one of the "most important yet most overlooked" aspects of organizational security, yet an important mechanism to reduce risk in employee behavior.
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"Our findings are very clear, females report better compliance with rules and less risky security behavior than their male counterparts," said Kai Roer, founder of CLTRe, and co-author of the report. "Men, on the other hand, report better knowledge of the rules as well as better understanding of risk and technology, while not following those rules as closely as their female colleagues."
Roer founded CLTRe, a research-driven software-as-a-service company serving the global market, to provide a solution for organizations needing to quantify the impact and effectiveness of security culture investments. The paper, co-authored with Gregor Petric, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Social Informatics and Chair of the Center for Methodology and Informatics at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana (Slovenia), was based on data using the CLTRe Toolkit, leveraging big data, statistical prediction, organizational psychology, and survey methodology.
