Cyber Security Awareness of General
Practitioners in Swiss Micro-Enterprises
This thesis examines the question if a tailored guidebook improves the awareness of cyber
security in micro-enterprises. The guidebook is a tool that can be used continuously as
security questions arise. It focuses on general medical practitioners who own their own
practice. The target group is not necessarily technically oriented, but may be au000bected by
the current threat of cyber attacks and therefore required to know the legal regulations.
Often cyber security tasks are outsourced, however the responsibility remains with the
owner of the micro-enterprise. In this thesis, data about the needs of general medical
practitioner's (n = 7) needs in cyber security was gathered with interviews. The results
of which were then used to compile requested information into a guidebook. A draft of
the guidebook was then tested with a group of general medical practitioners and their
employees (n = 24) to collect feedback with a questionnaire. An increase in cyber
security awareness after reading an advanced draft of the guidebook was expected. In
the scope of the investigations of this thesis it was found that a guidebook tailored to
the needs of micro-enterprises such as general practitioners did increase awareness about
possible threats to their data and how cyber security awareness can be used to avert
them. Measurements on whether the awareness was strengthened over a longer period
of time with the guidebook would have to be done in follow-up work.
Block, Benedikt Philemon, 2022
Art der Arbeit Master Thesis
Auftraggebende
Betreuende Dozierende Asprion, Petra, Löffler, Emanuel
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Studiengang: Business Information Systems (Master)
Vertraulichkeit: öffentlich