https://ir.unisa.ac.za/handle/10500/461 Wed, 06 May 2026 07:58:21 GMT 2026-05-06T07:58:21Z https://ir.unisa.ac.za/handle/10500/32106 Addressing Gender Diversity in the Cybersecurity Profession to Enhance Business Value Da Veiga, Adele Businesses require a skilled workforce to define and implement innovative digital solutions and to protect them from incidents and cyber-attack. However, a major cybersecurity skills gap exists globally, with a significant underrepresentation of women in the profession. This chapter provides an overview of the barriers women experience and proposed interventions to enter and progress in the cybersecurity profession. The chapter concludes with the Cybersecurity for Women (CybSec4W) framework and checklist to foster a culture where women can enter and advance in the cybersecurity workforce, whilst incorporating the requisite organisation theory. Management can implement the framework with the outlined interventions to attract, retain, create and support a conducive and equitable culture in the organisation’s cybersecurity workspace to enable a strong capability to become cyber resilient, which will benefit the adoption of digital technologies for business growth. Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT https://ir.unisa.ac.za/handle/10500/32106 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z https://ir.unisa.ac.za/handle/10500/32105 Encouraging creativity and innovation as part of the cybersecurity culture of the organisation for sustainable value and growth Da Veiga, Adele Creativity and innovation are vital to combat cybercrime and protect information and related systems of organisations. Organisations in which creativity and innovation are applied in the security function experience fewer cyber and information security breaches, manage cyber risk more easily, experience greater productivity and faster growth and can implement the latest technologies, knowing that the organisation and systems are protected. However, there is limited guidance for organisations on how to incorporate creativity and innovation as part of the cybersecurity culture. In this chapter, the determinants that positively influence creativity and innovation in organisations are outlined and applied to the context of a cybersecurity culture. A creativity and innovation framework for a cybersecurity culture is presented as a theoretical contribution, leveraging values and determinants derived from existing creativity and innovation models and frameworks. The creativity and innovation framework for a cybersecurity culture with a corresponding scorecard, as a practical contribution, can be utilised by the leadership in the security function to implement the determinants to encourage creativity and innovation as part of the cybersecurity culture in the organisation. Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT https://ir.unisa.ac.za/handle/10500/32105 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z https://ir.unisa.ac.za/handle/10500/32104 A Framework and Assessment Instrument for Information Security Culture Da Veiga, Adele; Eloff, Jan An organisation’s approach to information security should focus on employee behaviour, as the organisation’s success or failure effectively depends on the things that its employees do or fail to do. An information security-aware culture will minimise risks to information assets and specifically reduce the risk of employee misbehaviour and harmful interaction with information assets. Organisations require guidance in establishing an information security-aware or implementing an acceptable information security culture. They need to measure and report on the state of information security culture in the organisation. Various approaches exist to address the threats that employee behaviour could pose. However, these approaches do not focus specifically on the interaction between the behaviour of an employee and the culture in an organisation. Organisations therefore have need of a comprehensive framework to cultivate a security-aware culture. The objective of this paper is to propose a framework to cultivate an information security culture within an organisation and to illustrate how to use it. An empirical study is performed to aid in validating the proposed Information Security Culture Framework. Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT https://ir.unisa.ac.za/handle/10500/32104 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z https://ir.unisa.ac.za/handle/10500/31915 A Persuasive Technology mHealth Self-Monitoring System for Intervention in Diabetic Patients Medical Adherence Kgasi, M. R.; Chimbo, B.; Motsi, L.; Motsi, L The prevalence of chronic diseases like diabetes has caused unmeasurable strain on many health systems especially in developing countries. Chronically ill patients are traumatised by their incurable illnesses, which adversely affects their adherence to their medical treatment, resulting in serious complications and even death. The aim of the study: to implement an intervention mobile health (mHealth) system by integrating persuasive technologies into mobile applications to empower diabetic patients to adhere to medical prescriptions. Material and Methods: Fogg Behaviour Model (FBM) was leveraged for the integration of mHealth and behaviour aspects. The system was developed with Kotlin programming using the Android Studio working integrated development environment (IDE). Tools including Firebase Real Time Database, Android Studio and Android Mobile Phone were used to afford a fully fledged mHealth self-monitoring system. The system was evaluated using descriptive statistics by medical personnel and social workers to determine the completeness, clarity, logical arrangement, correctness, reliability, usability, as well as content validity. Results: Findings indicated that the mHealth system meets a good degree of the measures that inform patients’ self-monitoring for medicine adherence. The evaluation results also suggested that some functionality of the mHealth self-monitoring system requires an incremental improvement, to provide a seamless healthcare support. The artefact was descriptively evaluated on seven parameters: completeness that showed a mean of 3.75 with a standard deviation of 1.070; functionality with a mean of 4.05 and standard deviation of 0.945; accuracy with a mean of 3.70 and standard deviation of 1.031; reliability a mean of 3.90 and standard deviation of 0.945; consistence a mean of 4.00 and standard deviation of 0.968; performance a mean of 3.75 and standard deviation of 1.250, and usability with a mean of 3.55 and standard deviation of 0.999. Conclusions: The developed system is as effective as face-to-face consultations and personal visits to healthcare facilities. Diabetic patients need to adhere to medicine to avoid further complications that could lead to death. DOI:10.26697/ijsa Tue, 23 Jul 2024 00:00:00 GMT https://ir.unisa.ac.za/handle/10500/31915 2024-07-23T00:00:00Z