Research on information security awareness of groups based on cellular automata

Abstract

Information security awareness(ISA) of end-user in organizations is crucially important to defense Information security threats. The paper starts with issue and focuses on the internal and external factors of influencing individual ISA. By the interactions among individuals, leaders and different groups, multiple individual ISAs can be regarded as a complex system. Hereby, an ISA evolutionary model based on cellular automata is proposed to study the ISA transition and spatial distribution. The simulation experiments show the average level of ISA in group is fluctuating with individual movement, interactions and security training etc., and the ISA distribution has features of plasticity, sociality, diffusibility and relative independent ability. Besides, the roles of leaders have an great impact on the ISA stability in groups.