scholarly journals Factors Affecting the Information Security Awareness and Perceived Information Security Risk of Employees of Port Companies

2012 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 261-271 ◽  
Author(s):  
Myung-Hee Chang ◽  
Da-Yeon Kang
Keyword(s):  
Information Security ◽  
Security Awareness ◽  
Security Risk ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Information Security Awareness ◽  
Information Security Risk

scholarly journals Developing a secured social networking site using information security awareness techniques

2014 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Julius O. Okesola ◽  
Marthie Grobler
Keyword(s):  
Information Security ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Social Networking Site ◽  
Object Oriented Programming ◽  
Security Awareness ◽  
Security Risk ◽  
Privacy And Security ◽  
Information Security Awareness ◽  
Technical Control ◽  
Database Engine

Background: Ever since social network sites (SNS) became a global phenomenon in almost every industry, security has become a major concern to many SNS stakeholders. Several security techniques have been invented towards addressing SNS security, but information security awareness (ISA) remains a critical point. Whilst very few users have used social circles and applications because of a lack of users’ awareness, the majority have found it difficult to determine the basis of categorising friends in a meaningful way for privacy and security policies settings. This has confirmed that technical control is just part of the security solutions and not necessarily a total solution. Changing human behaviour on SNSs is essential; hence the need for a privately enhanced ISA SNS.Objective: This article presented sOcialistOnline – a newly developed SNS, duly secured and platform independent with various ISA techniques fully implemented.Method: Following a detailed literature review of the related works, the SNS was developed on the basis of Object Oriented Programming (OOP) approach, using PhP as the coding language with the MySQL database engine at the back end.Result: This study addressed the SNS requirements of privacy, security and services, and attributed them as the basis of architectural design for sOcialistOnline. SNS users are more aware of potential risk and the possible consequences of unsecured behaviours.Conclusion: ISA is focussed on the users who are often the greatest security risk on SNSs, regardless of technical securities implemented. Therefore SNSs are required to incorporate effective ISA into their platform and ensure users are motivated to embrace it.

scholarly journals Identify of Factors Affecting Information Security Awareness and Weight Analysis Process

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 534-542
Keyword(s):  
Information Security ◽  
Information Exchange ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Influential Factors ◽  
Security Awareness ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Information Security Awareness ◽  
Independent Variables ◽  
Analysis Process ◽  
Weight Analysis

Information exchange is a key aspect of using technology in everyday life. Crimes associated with the lack of information security awareness (ISA), misuse and carelessness are on the increase and often result in heavy losses and serious consequences. In order for ISA campaigns and programmes to be effective, the most successful and influential factors must be employed in the human component of the security awareness process. The purpose of this study is to investigate the causes of human breaches to information security and undertake a weight analysis of the models’ predictors’ relationships utilised in ISA literature from the current decade. Usable data were collected from twenty-one empirical studies related to ISA research in order to obtain the correlations required to perform a weight analysis process for a predictor's relationships. The relationships examined in all studies used in this research (significant–nonsignificant) are presented in a diagram. Findings show that six independent variables were found to be classified as ‘wellutilised’ variables, and the rest of the independent variables converge at the ‘Promising’ classification level. Contributions, limitations and directions of future work are presented.

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