Same or Not the Same? Comparison Between Employees Prone to Overplacement, Overestimation, and Overprecision in Information Security
Muriel Frank, Mara Wacker, Lukas Manuel Ranft · Proceedings of the ... Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences/Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences · 2024
Overconfidence has been shown to have a detrimental effect on information security in enterprises.However, research on this systematic misperception of one's abilities and skills is fragmented, and evidence on who is at risk of overconfidence is scarce.Using a cluster analysis in conjunction with a large-scale survey of 2,867 employees of a pharmaceutical company, we examine information security overconfidence and identify commonalities between risk groups.Our findings help raise awareness and understanding of this widespread phenomenon and can help design appropriate interventions.