Old Monarchy in the New Cyberspace: Empirical Examination of Information Security Awareness among Austrian and Hungarian Enterprises
Absztrakt :
Information security awareness is part of organizational culture, a way of thinking
and behavior which ensures that the employees of the organizations are committed
to acknowledging the legitimacy of security measures, they abide by them and they
also make them known to others and enforce their application. After collecting
empirical data from 280 Austrian and 470 Hungarian employees of different companies we concluded that the level of information security awareness of managers
and employees in the Austrian and Hungarian business sector depends on company size. The level of this type of awareness can be regarded as good in the case of
corporations both in Austria and Hungary. A good level of information security
awareness was observed among the Austrian medium-sized enterprises. However,
in a fifth of their Hungarian counterparts, the employees need further trainings
in this area. Security problems can be traced back to poor organization at a fifth
of the Austrian small-sized enterprises, a third of the Austrian microenterprises,
and three-quarters of the Hungarian microenterprises. In 20% of the Austrian and
Hungarian enterprises, employees have distressing gaps in their knowledge in this
area, furthermore, it can also be concluded that employees with higher digital lit-
eracy have a higher level of information security awareness in Austria compared
to the Hungarian business sector.