Cybersecurity Awareness Scale
Information SystemsReliability: alpha 0.883 sample items
About this scale
A multi-item measure of employee cybersecurity awareness — knowledge of risks and intention to follow cybersecurity policies.
Sample item(s)
“I know how to recognize a phishing email”
“I follow my organization's password policies”
“I am cautious about clicking links from unknown senders”
Reliability
Reported internal consistency: alpha 0.88. As a rule of thumb, Cronbach’s α ≥ .70 is considered acceptable, ≥ .80 good, and ≥ .90 excellent for established measures.
Notes
Free for academic use.
Source & citation
Parsons, K., Calic, D., Pattinson, M., Butavicius, M., McCormac, A., & Zwaans, T. (2017): The Human Aspects of Information Security Questionnaire (HAIS-Q). Computers & Security, Vol. 66, pp. 40–51.
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