Abstract
Nowadays, many people work from home, owing in part to the COVID-19 pandemic. Home users are susceptible to a variety of threats emanating from the internet. Numerous studies have been conducted linking threat appraisal and its relationship to multidimensional security behaviour. The purpose of this study was to ascertain users' perceptions of threat appraisal behaviour as measured by perceived susceptibility, perceived severity, and perceived threats, as well as their relationship to security behaviour as measured by device security, password generation, proactive awareness, and updating. The results of a survey of 270 home computer users indicate that there is a mixed relationship between trait appraisal and security behaviour. Nevertheless, each dimension of trait appraisal has a significant relationship with at least one dimension of security behaviour. This study contributed significantly to both theory and practise... Keywords— Threats appraisal, security behavior, home user, structural equation modelling
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