scholarly journals Believe It or Not ─ Employees Intend to Comply with Information Security Policy because of the Desire for Trade-offs

2021 ◽  
Vol 29 (6) ◽  
pp. 0-0
Keyword(s):  
Information Security ◽  
Regulatory Focus ◽  
Security Policy ◽  
Chinese Culture ◽  
Behavioral Model ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Information Security Policy ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Specific Dimension ◽  
Security Practices

Most theories of information security policy (ISP), except a few focused on the insider-centric view, are grounded in the control-centric perspective, and most ISP compliance models stem from Western countries. Regulatory focus theory (RFT) proposes two modes of motivational regulation, promotion and prevention focused that are supposed to motivate employee compliance in a trade-off. Culture is crucial to the study of ISP that puts control over human connections. Chinese guanxi, a specific dimension of Chinese culture, is better understood underlying the trust-distrust frame. To bridge the theoretical gap between the control-centric and the insider-centric perspectives, we develop an ISP behavioral model by taking an integrated approach from RFT and the trust-distrust frame. We employed scenario-based events about information security misconduct in the workplace to examine employees’ compliance intention and non-violation choice of ISP upon counterfactual thinking. Our empirical results improve the theoretical and practical implications of security practices.

scholarly journals An Integrative Behavioral Model of Information Security Policy Compliance

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sang Hoon Kim ◽  
Kyung Hoon Yang ◽  
Sunyoung Park
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Information Security ◽  
Security Policy ◽  
System Security ◽  
Behavioral Model ◽  
Information Security Policy ◽  
Information System Security ◽  
Neutralization Theory ◽  
Information Security Policy Compliance ◽  
Security Policy Compliance

The authors found the behavioral factors that influence the organization members’ compliance with the information security policy in organizations on the basis of neutralization theory, Theory of planned behavior, and protection motivation theory. Depending on the theory of planned behavior, members’ attitudes towards compliance, as well as normative belief and self-efficacy, were believed to determine the intention to comply with the information security policy. Neutralization theory, a prominent theory in criminology, could be expected to provide the explanation for information system security policy violations. Based on the protection motivation theory, it was inferred that the expected efficacy could have an impact on intentions of compliance. By the above logical reasoning, the integrative behavioral model and eight hypotheses could be derived. Data were collected by conducting a survey; 194 out of 207 questionnaires were available. The test of the causal model was conducted by PLS. The reliability, validity, and model fit were found to be statistically significant. The results of the hypotheses tests showed that seven of the eight hypotheses were acceptable. The theoretical implications of this study are as follows: (1) the study is expected to play a role of the baseline for future research about organization members’ compliance with the information security policy, (2) the study attempted an interdisciplinary approach by combining psychology and information system security research, and (3) the study suggested concrete operational definitions of influencing factors for information security policy compliance through a comprehensive theoretical review. Also, the study has some practical implications. First, it can provide the guideline to support the successful execution of the strategic establishment for the implement of information system security policies in organizations. Second, it proves that the need of education and training programs suppressing members’ neutralization intention to violate information security policy should be emphasized.

scholarly journals Validity of information security policy models

2004 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 263-274 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua Onome Imoniana
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Information Security ◽  
Security Policy ◽  
Chief Executive ◽  
Theoretical Models ◽  
Information Security Policy ◽  
Security Officer ◽  
Continuity Planning ◽  
Policy Models ◽  
Inclusive Business

Validity is concerned with establishing evidence for the use of a method to be used with a particular set of population. Thus, when we address the issue of application of security policy models, we are concerned with the implementation of a certain policy, taking into consideration the standards required, through attribution of scores to every item in the research instrument. En today's globalized economic scenarios, the implementation of information security policy, in an information technology environment, is a condition sine qua non for the strategic management process of any organization. Regarding this topic, various studies present evidences that, the responsibility for maintaining a policy rests primarily with the Chief Security Officer. The Chief Security Officer, in doing so, strives to enhance the updating of technologies, in order to meet all-inclusive business continuity planning policies. Therefore, for such policy to be effective, it has to be entirely embraced by the Chief Executive Officer. This study was developed with the purpose of validating specific theoretical models, whose designs were based on literature review, by sampling 10 of the Automobile Industries located in the ABC region of Metropolitan São Paulo City. This sampling was based on the representativeness of such industries, particularly with regards to each one's implementation of information technology in the region. The current study concludes, presenting evidence of the discriminating validity of four key dimensions of the security policy, being such: the Physical Security, the Logical Access Security, the Administrative Security, and the Legal & Environmental Security. On analyzing the Alpha of Crombach structure of these security items, results not only attest that the capacity of those industries to implement security policies is indisputable, but also, the items involved, homogeneously correlate to each other.

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