Work-to-Home Cybersecurity Spillover: Construct Development and Validation

Abstract

ABSTRACT The COVID-19 pandemic has forced employees to work from home using enterprise systems outside traditional organizational boundaries. Thus, organizations cannot enforce security policies for safe IT use behaviors but depend on continuance intentions of work policies at home. We study the transfer of IT security behaviors from work to home by developing the construct of Work-to-Home Cybersecurity Spillover and empirically testing and validating it. Our findings provide practical implications for researchers and practitioners in cybersecurity.