Cyber-Security Culture: Psychological and Legal Aspects

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Abstract

Digitalization has become part and parcel of the modern-day human activities. Nowadays it is going into every field of business and personal life. To develop and prosper, most organizations need IT systems, and hence to take the safeguarding of their informational assets seriously. Many of the processes which are essential for securing their IT assets, largely depend on human interaction. This study has attempted to address the culture of cyber-security in the light of psychology and law. The results of the research showed that from the psychological standpoint, the culture of cyber-security involves the willingness on the part of a modern human to overcome the digital expansion by mastering the tools for countering the negative IT factors. In its turn, from the legal standpoint, the culture of cyber-security is based on the legislative framework which regulates the legal relations in the field of cyber-security.

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Keywords: cyber-security, informational and psychological security, cyberpsychology, culture, social engineering, threat, digital expansion, human factor

Journal rubric: Interdisciplinary Studies

DOI: https://doi.org/10.17759/psylaw.2021110415

Received: 13.03.2021

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For citation: Begishev I.R. Cyber-Security Culture: Psychological and Legal Aspects [Elektronnyi resurs]. Psikhologiya i pravo = Psychology and Law, 2021. Vol. 11, no. 4, pp. 207–220. DOI: 10.17759/psylaw.2021110415. (In Russ., аbstr. in Engl.)

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Ildar R. Begishev, PhD in Law, Senior Researcher, Kazan Innovative University named after V.G. Timiryasov, Honored Lawyer of the Republic of Tatarstan, Kazan, Russia, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5619-4025, e-mail: begishev@mail.ru

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