TY - GEN
T1 - Investigation of employee security behaviour
T2 - 30th IFIP TC 11 International Information Security and Privacy Conference, SEC 2015
AU - Connolly, Lena
AU - Lang, Michael
AU - Tygar, J. D.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© IFIP International Federation for Information Processing 2015.
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - At a time of rapid business globalisation, it is necessary to understand employee security behaviour within diverse cultural settings. While general deterrence theory has been extensively used in Behavioural Information Security research with the aim to explain the effect of deterrent factors on employees’ security actions, these studies provide inconsistent and even contradictory findings. Therefore, a further examination of deterrent factors in the security context is required. The aim of this study is to contribute to the emerging field of Behavioural Information Security research by investigating how a combination of security countermeasures and cultural factors impact upon employee security behaviour in organisations. A particular focus of this project is to explore the effect of national culture and organisational culture on employee actions as regards information security. Preliminary findings suggest that organisational culture, national culture, and security countermeasures do have an impact upon employee security behaviour.
AB - At a time of rapid business globalisation, it is necessary to understand employee security behaviour within diverse cultural settings. While general deterrence theory has been extensively used in Behavioural Information Security research with the aim to explain the effect of deterrent factors on employees’ security actions, these studies provide inconsistent and even contradictory findings. Therefore, a further examination of deterrent factors in the security context is required. The aim of this study is to contribute to the emerging field of Behavioural Information Security research by investigating how a combination of security countermeasures and cultural factors impact upon employee security behaviour in organisations. A particular focus of this project is to explore the effect of national culture and organisational culture on employee actions as regards information security. Preliminary findings suggest that organisational culture, national culture, and security countermeasures do have an impact upon employee security behaviour.
KW - Employee security behavior
KW - National culture
KW - Organisational culture
KW - Security countermeasures
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84942582480
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-18467-8_19
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-18467-8_19
M3 - Conference Publication
SN - 9783319184661
T3 - IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology
SP - 283
EP - 296
BT - ICT Systems Security and Privacy Protection - 30th IFIP TC 11 International Conference, SEC 2015, Proceedings
A2 - Federrath, Hannes
A2 - Gollmann, Dieter
PB - Springer New York LLC
Y2 - 26 May 2015 through 28 May 2015
ER -