Analysis of Characteristics of Victims in Information Security Incidents: The Case of Japanese Internet Users

In this article, we investigate the attributes of victims in information security incidents for the purpose of reducing the damages. Information-Technology Promotion Agency (IPA) conducted the Internet (Web-based) survey titled “Survey of awareness toward information security incidents” whose targets are the Japanese Internet users at October 2010. By using micro data collected from the survey, we employed multinomial logit regression analysis. As a result, we find some common factors affecting the all experience of the incidents, and factors affecting the specified incidents. Accordingly, we suggest some policies for reducing the damages.