PERSPECTIVES ON PROMOTING SECURITY CULTURE
PERSPECTIVES ON PROMOTING SECURITY CULTURE

Summary/Abstract: This article approaches the security culture phenomenon and expands on the importance of making it better known to the general public. Firstly, we shall examine the conceptual dimensions of security culture by surveying its definitions and clarifying the present-day scope of the concept. Secondly, we shall go into detail about the social benefits of promoting security culture and raising people’s awareness with regard to this issue. Thirdly, we shall look into a variety of strategies and methods that could be employed in the process. Thus, we shall argue that academia must be viewed as one of the most important actors in this undertaking because it represents the field of free debates and exchange of ideas, fostering new approaches to a multitude of domains. Finally, we shall comment on the particularities of source, message, channel and receiver in the context of public campaigns for promoting security culture.

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