Cultural Dimensions

Hofstede’s Cultural Markers in Successful Victim Cyber Exploitations

Abstract:

Hofstede, Hofstede, and Minkov (2010) observed that culture acts as “software of the mind”. These authors have written that culture influences behaviour and motivation for behaviour. This phenomenon may also be connected to underlying behaviours that inadvertently lead to successful exploitation. The current study was undertaken in order to determine if a statistical relationship exists between culture and successfully exploited government and military websites housed in victim countries.

Published In

Volume 15, Issue 3

Culture and Cyber Behaviours: DNS Defending

ABSTRACT

The Domain Name System (DNS) provides the Internet mapping information that many applications rely on for proper functioning. DNS software is a popular and potent attack vector. Many DNS attacks can be prevented through the adoption of DNS security extensions (DNSSEC). DNSSEC provides assurance of data authenticity (Arends et al. 2005). Even though DNSSEC standard has been in place over a decade, adoption has remained uneven; therefore, cultural values and DNSSEC adoption and rejection rates were examined in this study. The findings reveal activity in several dimensions, thus, implying that DNSSEC behaviours and cultural values may be co-related.

Published In

Volume 14, Issue 4

Journal of Information Warfare

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