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[kristau]

Well, I was going to read your paper, but then I saw the link to
kittenwar. 20 minutes later and I've yet to look at your paper.
Thanks!

On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 11:39 AM, Josh More
<MoreJ at alliancetechnologies.net> wrote:
> I completed my paper based on the survey I had sent out a few months back.
> To put it very succinctly, I have long wondered why small businesses do not
> suffer more security breaches than they do.  As a group, they tend to have
> sloppy operations practices and poor to nonexistent controls.  While they
> are a smaller and less-tempting target, that alone doesn't seem to explain
> the lack of problems.  One thing that might is the tendency for people at
> lower risk to compensate for that lower risk by taking larger personal
> risks.  So I decided to study the variables of psychological control within
> an information security context.  The conclusions were somewhat
> surprising... but that may be due to the limited sample set.
>
> If you are interested in Likert scales, psychology or academic analysis of
> information security, the paper is available here:
> http://www.sans.org/reading_room/whitepapers/awareness/measuring-psychological-variables-control-information-security_33594
> .
>
> If you like, you can just jump down to pages 26-28 and get my conclusions
>
> If you don't care about any of that stuff, this site has kittens:
> http://kittenwar.com/   ;)
>
>
>
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