Promoting Cybersecurity within Healthcare.

Despite extensive technological and legislative interventions, data breaches within the healthcare sector rose drastically in 2015. While these breaches were often attributed to external "hackers," research indicates that the vast majority of data breaches were actually the result of careless employee behavior. As a result, cybersecurity and medical pundits have called for a change in healthcare employees' attitudes and behaviors surrounding cybersecurity. Since research indicates that organizational climate approaches are particularly effective at impacting employees' attitudes and behaviors, borrowing from the safety climate literature, we take a climate-based approach to tackling cybersecurity issues. To do this we test a model linking cybersecurity climate to cybersecurity-related behaviors. Using a sample of 261 healthcare employees working in a variety of medical settings, results indicate support for the proposed model. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]