Summary

I am currently a senior lecturer in cybercrime and cybersecuirty at the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Portsmouth, UK. I hold a Ph.D in Information Systems Management from the University Pierre Mendes France in Grenoble, France. I teach across a range of undergraduate and postgraduate modules such as Information secuirty management and Global landscape of cybersecuirty.

My main areas of research interest include:

-Socio-technical approaches to information systems security

-Cybersecurity and work systems

-Social engineering and human-related risks

-Usable security

-Design and development of secuirty policies

-User acceptance of security policies and technologies

-Organisational governance for cybersecurity 

-Global governance of cybersecurity

-Sustainability as governance and systemic sustainability issues 

These topics provide opportunities to completment technical and formalised paradigms in the developement and implementation of security policies. These research areas also create opportunities for knowledge tranfert and collaborative partnership with industry and governmental organisations.

 

Research outputs

2024

Information security: still not my job!

Bednar, P., Sadok, M.

28 Dec 2024,

Research output: Chapter (peer-reviewed)

An exploration into work practices of physical security professionals: a sociotechnical perspective

Korhonen, M., Sadok, M.

16 Aug 2024,

Research output: Conference contribution

2023

IS and cybersecurity practice: avoiding self-sabotage

Bednar, P., Welch, C., Sadok, M.

27 Oct 2023,

Research output: Conference contribution

How do professionals assess security risks in practice? An exploratory study

Harris, W., Sadok, M.

10 Jul 2023, In: Security Journal

Research output: Article

2021

An analysis of United Kingdom schools’ information security policies: a socio-technical approach

Sparrius, M., Sadok, M.

9 Dec 2021,

Research output: Conference contribution

Governing online terrorist propaganda: a societal security issue

Correia, V. A., Sadok, M.

11 Oct 2021,

Research output: Conference contribution

What can we learn from the analysis of information security policies? The case of UK’s schools

Sparrius, M., Sadok, M., Bednar, P.

8 Jul 2021,

Research output: Conference contribution

2020

It is not my job: exploring the disconnect between corporate security policies and actual security practices in SMEs

Sadok, M., Alter, S., Bednar, P.

1 Jul 2020, In: Information and Computer Security. 28, 3, p. 467-483, 17p.

Research output: Article

A socio-technical perspective to counter cyber-enabled industrial espionage

Sadok, M., Welch, C., Bednar, P.

1 Mar 2020, In: Security Journal. 33, 1, p. 27-42, 16p., 0

Research output: Article

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