An assessment of users’ cyber security risk tolerance in reward-based exchange

• Main Authors: ZHAN, Xinhui, NAH, Fiona Fui-hoon, CHENG, Maggie X.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2018
• Subjects: Cyber security; Risk; Human factors; Decision-making; Databases and Information Systems; Graphics and Human Computer Interfaces; Information Security
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/9977; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/10977/viewcontent/978_3_319_91716_0_34_pvoa.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

This study examines users’ risk-taking behavior in software downloads. We are interested in quantifying the degree of risks that users are willing to take in the cyber security context. We propose conducting an experiment using Amazon’s Mechanical Turk to assess the degree of risks that people are w...