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Assignment 1

PART 1

A literature review is an account of what has been published on a topic (in journal articles, conference proceedings, books and other relevant sources) by recognised researchers. Understanding the prior research on a particular topic is the basis of most new research. Researchers must know what has been studied, discussed and recommended by others in related areas.

Information technology security is an increasingly important research topic. Although organisations spend large amounts on technology that can help safeguard the security of their information and computing assets, increased attention is being focused on the role people play in maintaining a safe computing environment.This issue is important both for organisational and home computing

In this assignment you will review the published literature on user security behaviour and write a literature review that synthesizes what you have found into a summary of what is, and is not, known on the topic.

This assignment is intended to:

• Help you to understand the basics of a topic that we will explore for the remainder of the semester. It will serve as a starting point for the introduction section of your research project
• Provide you withpractise finding peer reviewed, recent articles about one topic
• Allow you to organize your ideas about that topic in a meaningful way (including both synthesis and critical analysis).

To do
To successfully complete the assignment, you must begin searching for relevant literature immediately. The skills covered in Week 2 will be valuable.

This is a group assignment, and each group includes 3-4 students. Please form the group by week 2 with others attending the same lab session. You will work onassignment 2 with the same group.

Find at least 10 relevant articles. To qualify as a source of information that you can use for the assignment, these main articles must report results of empirical research (i.e. not just authors' opinions). The research results can be either qualitative or quantitative in nature. Each article must also:
• Have been published in a refereed journal or conference proceedings (though you may obtain the article through an online source)
• Have an extensive references section.
In addition you may choose to supplement these articles with a few articles from other sources or that do not present the authors' own results.

When you search articles, pay particular attention to the keywords below:
• Perceived Severity
• Perceived Self-efficacy
• Perceived Effectiveness
• Perceived Cost
• Perceived Vulnerability
• Perceived Threat
• Intention to Comply
and try to find user security behaviour studies related to these variables. In that way you can use your (part of) searched articles for assignment 2.

Attachment:- Assignment security behaviour.rar