Implement Scientific Methods. Improving Security Awareness, Behavior and Culture.

The 2024 Security Culture Report is the largest study of its kind, measuring organizations’ security cultures and surveying more than 800,000 employees in 4,078 organizations across 18 industries. See where your industry stands in a global comparison of security practices.

This report represents a treasure trove of data-driven insights, brought to life with easy-to-understand graphics. Dive deep into how security measures affect not only your organization's policies, but also the daily actions and emotions of your team at work.

Security Culture and Credential Sharing – Improved Security Culture Reduces Credential Sharing in Cybersecurity investigates the impact of security culture on reducing risky security behaviors such as opening phishing emails, clicking on suspicious links, and giving away credentials. 

97,661 employees in 1,115 organizations worldwide were analyzed in total.  The global study finds empirical evidence that security culture and security behaviors are closely linked, and improving security culture can reduce these risks 52-fold!

This paper provides a comprehensive resource for practitioners seeking a deeper understanding of the dimensions that comprise security culture. Knowledge of what these dimensions are, how they relate to security, and how they can be positively influenced, will provide practitioners with the tools and practical advice needed to start building and improving security culture in organizations.

This whitepaper from KnowBe4 Research explains how to measure security culture in a scientifically valid and reliable way. The whitepaper explores the need for measuring culture, how it is being done today and explains how the KnowBe4 Research Toolkit scientific method is different