Lead
University of Bath

Research leads
Professor Adam Joinson & Dr. Joanna Syrda

Focus
The barriers to and enablers of secure technology adoption

Goals:

• Review the economic models for investment in digital security.

• Develop and test new models that integrate economic modelling and human decision-making.

• Develop and test new ways to measure and quantify digital security adoption costs and benefits on an individual organisation level and beyond.

• Survey and segment relevant decision makers to understand how incentives and biases differ between groups.

• Use experiments to look at social norms as a way of addressing the issues uncovered

Commissioned Research linked to this theme:

• Economic & Consumer Chain Analysis of Secure Hardware Adoption

• The impact of cyber security on the adoption of new digital technologies in UK’s SMEs

• Secure Hardware adoption in the open data context

• Assessing organisational DSbD awareness & readiness

  (Please visit our Resources page to read research findings)

Board game: Threats and Trade-offs