A protection motivation theory approach to home wireless security

Association for Information Systems - 26th International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 2005: Forever New Frontiers

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 367-380

  Woon, I M Y ^a   Tan, G W ^a   Low, R T ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Computer security; Logistic regression analysis; Protection motivation theory; Wireless security

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL INTERNET; HOME USERS; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PHYSICAL LOCATIONS; PROTECTION MOTIVATION THEORY; PUBLIC LIBRARY; SECURITY FEATURES; SELF EFFICACY; SOCIOTECHNICAL; UNIVERSAL ACCESS; WIRELESS DEVICES; WIRELESS SECURITY; WORK PRACTICES;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; LIBRARIES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SECURITY OF DATA; SECURITY SYSTEMS; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

MOTIVATION;

EID: 84869780575     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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