From information to potentiality : re-envisioning cybersecurity awareness as transformative practice

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Dobreva, Milena and Renaud, Karen (2025) From information to potentiality : re-envisioning cybersecurity awareness as transformative practice. In: ASIS&T 2025 Symposium, 2025-11-14 - 2025-11-18. (In Press)

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Abstract

The cybersecurity domain presents challenges to lay citizens. Explanations and/or advice related to wise behaviours in digital environments is considered essential. Cybersecurity knowledge and information discipline constantly evolves in what is a complex information ecosystem. Perhaps predictably, there are multiple potential sources of advice with a lack of mutual agreement on best practice. Moreover, advice is seldom tailored to accommodate different levels of competence and resource availability. This situation demands attention as a domain of critical importance for the digital resilience of lay users. In this paper, we explore some of the specific features/characteristics of cybersecurity advice using an information of potentiality lens. Without sufficient attention to change the status quo, lay users will either not be able to identify and/or follow best practice advice or follow suboptimal or outdated advice risking triggering adverse cybersecurity incidents. This initial foray is meant to propose a way of improving the quality of the best practice advice in the cybersecurity domain and, as a consequence, to develop greater user resilience and an optimal user experience.

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Dobreva, Milena ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2579-7541 and Renaud, Karen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7187-6531;
  • Item type:Conference or Workshop Item(Paper)
    ID code:94384
    Dates:
    Date
    Event
    15 September 2025
    Published
    15 September 2025
    Accepted
    Subjects:?? QA76-890 ??
    Department:Faculty of Science > Computer and Information Sciences
    Depositing user: Pure Administrator
    Date deposited:08 Oct 2025 11:34
    Last modified:22 Jan 2026 02:43
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    URI:https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/94384
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