Evaluating the adoption of cybersecurity and its influence on organizational performance.

Cyberattacks negatively impact the performance of enterprises all around the globe. While organizations invest more in cybersecurity to avoid cyberattacks, studies on the factors affecting their overall cybersecurity adoption and awareness are sparse. In this paper, by integrating the diffusion of innovation theory (DOI), technology acceptance model (TAM), and technology-organization-environment (TOE) with the balanced scorecard approach, we propose a comprehensive set of factors that influence cybersecurity adoption and assess the effects of these factors on organizational performance.

Highly efficient visible-driven reduction of Cr(VI) by a novel black TiO photocatalyst.

Finding a facile and practical method to produce black TiO remains a challenge. Bismuth-vanadium co-doped black TiO (BVBT) was synthesized as a visible light driven photocatalyst by a simple one-pot hydrothermal method. The synthesized BVBT was characterized using scanning electron microscopy (SEM), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), X-ray powder diffraction (XRD), UV-vis diffuse reflectance spectroscopy (UV-Vis DRS).