TY  - EJOU
AU  - Okeke, Darlington 

TI  - Organizational Determinants of Cybersecurity Readiness: Evidence from a Quantitative Analysis
T2  - Journal of Cyber Security

PY  - 2026
VL  - 8
IS  - 1
SN  - 2579-0064

AB  -  <b>Background:</b> Novel cyber threats to organizations have greatly escalated due to the high digitalization rates of organizations, and cybersecurity readiness is a critical capability of organizations and not a technical issue. Although there is increased awareness, most organizations are ill-equipped due to weaknesses in human behavior, governance, leadership commitment, technology infrastructure, and incident response mechanisms. This paper discusses organizational factors that play a major role in cybersecurity readiness. <b>Methods:</b> Primary data from 230 participants were collected using a questionnaire approach and analyzed using IBM SPSS software. The quantitative methods adopted include descriptive statistics, Cronbach’s reliability test and Pearson’s Correlation analysis. <b>Results:</b> The findings indicate significant positive relationships between employee training, technological assistance, incident response planning and cybersecurity readiness, underscoring the importance of cybersecurity readiness. <b>Conclusions:</b> There are significant relationships between employee cybersecurity training, security policy enforcement, management support for cybersecurity, availability of cybersecurity tools, incident response planning, and organizational cybersecurity readiness.
KW  - Cybersecurity readiness; employee training; security policy enforcement; management support; incident response; cybersecurity tools

DO  - 10.32604/jcs.2026.080111