The Importance of Human Resources Competencies in Organisational Cyber Risk Management

Anca Băndoi, Cătălina Sitnikov, Daniela Dănciulescu, Lucian Mandache and Ionut Riza

A chapter in Managing Risk and Decision Making in Times of Economic Distress, Part B, 2022, vol. 108B, pp 75-90 from Emerald Group Publishing Limited

Abstract: Although risks are present in any organisation and the importance of their study is obvious, the authors find that risk analysis is an area still in its infancy, as reflected in the small number of existing publications on this topic. Human resources tend to understand risk in an elementary way. The ability of human resources to perceive risk is the ability and competence to identify a potential threat that does not always appear. Aim:The aim of the this chapter was to provide additional knowledge on human resource competencies, in order to avoid the emergence and spread of risks at the organisational and cyber level. Methodology:The authors used the quantitative–comparative analysis, by presenting all the details regarding the competencies of the human resource in order to manage the risks at organisational and cybernetic level. Findings: The findings of this chapter show that the compulsory competencies of the human resource influence both the general competencies and the special competencies: information technology and communications, security ethics and economic ones. These, in turn, can improve or diminish cyber security competencies by almost 50%. Originality of the Study: This study is highlighted by results obtained from the analysis of the capacity of human resources, to integrate theoretical knowledge and practical competencies on the perception of cyber risk. Of particular importance for this research are the analysis of data and the interpretation of results on human resources competencies. In this sense, throughout the chapter are assessed the skills of human resources, necessary for the management of cyber risks at the organisational level. In terms offuture research implications, it could be important research to identify a method of assessing the competencies acquired by human resources applied from the perspective of cyber risk.

Keywords: Risk; competencies; system of competencies; human resources; cyber risk; organisations; M14 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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