Lead
University of Cardiff

Research leads
Professor Pete Burnap & Professor Matt Williams

Focus
Variances in barriers and readiness to adopt across contexts and cultures.

Goals:

• Identify key stakeholder groups for whom social, cultural and commercial differences may exist in perceptions of digital security and the barriers to adoption.

• Analyse attitudes towards hardware vulnerabilities expressed in online social media.

• Explain the variance in factors that influence the propagation of opinions around adoption, resistance, and perceptions of risk.

• Identify differences between the narratives expressed in sectoral literature and online social spaces, and actual behaviour in practice.

• Understand the statistical relationship between public policy on cybercrime reduction and stakeholder perception; and between the regulatory landscape and the uptake and adoption of cybercrime prevention mechanisms by business.

Commissioned Research linked to this theme:

• The Elicitation of Cybersecurity narratives: Bricoleur story completion, decision making & security design

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