An analysis of information security awareness within home and work environments

As technology such as the Internet, computers and mobile devices become ubiquitous throughout society, the need to ensure our information remains secure is imperative. Unfortunately, it has long been understood that good security cannot be achieved through technical means alone and a solid understan...

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Main Authors:	Talib, Shuhaili, Clarke, Nathan L., Furnell, Steven M.
Format:	Conference or Workshop Item
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Published:	IEEE 2010
Subjects:	Q Science (General) T10.5 Communication of technical information
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spelling	iium-203782019-10-17T09:07:43Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/20378/ An analysis of information security awareness within home and work environments Talib, Shuhaili Clarke, Nathan L. Furnell, Steven M. Q Science (General) T10.5 Communication of technical information As technology such as the Internet, computers and mobile devices become ubiquitous throughout society, the need to ensure our information remains secure is imperative. Unfortunately, it has long been understood that good security cannot be achieved through technical means alone and a solid understanding of the issues and how to protect yourself is required from users. Whilst many initiatives, programs and strategies have been proposed to improve the level of information security awareness, most have been directed at organizations, with a few national programs focused upon home users. Given people's use of technology is primarily focused upon those two areas: the workplace and home, this paper seeks to understand the knowledge and practice relationship between these environments. Through the survey that was developed, it was identified that the majority of the learning about information security occurred in the workplace, where clear motivations, such as legislation and regulation, existed. It was also found that user's were more than willing to engage with such awareness raising initiatives. From a comparison of practice between work and home environments, it was found that this knowledge and practice obtained at the workplace was transferred to the home environment. Given this positive transferability of knowledge and the willingness to learn about how to remain secure, an opportunity exists to move away from specific organizational awareness programs and to move towards awareness raising strategies that, whilst deployed in the organization, will develop an all-round individual security culture for users independent of the environment within which they are operating. IEEE 2010 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/20378/1/an_analysis_of_information_security_awareness.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/20378/4/20378_An%20analysis%20of%20information%20security%20awareness_SCOPUS.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/20378/5/20378_An%20analysis%20of%20information%20security%20awareness_WOS.pdf Talib, Shuhaili and Clarke, Nathan L. and Furnell, Steven M. (2010) An analysis of information security awareness within home and work environments. In: 2010 International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security, 15th-18th Feb. 2010, Krakow. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=5438096&tag=1 10.1109/ARES.2010.27
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description	As technology such as the Internet, computers and mobile devices become ubiquitous throughout society, the need to ensure our information remains secure is imperative. Unfortunately, it has long been understood that good security cannot be achieved through technical means alone and a solid understanding of the issues and how to protect yourself is required from users. Whilst many initiatives, programs and strategies have been proposed to improve the level of information security awareness, most have been directed at organizations, with a few national programs focused upon home users. Given people's use of technology is primarily focused upon those two areas: the workplace and home, this paper seeks to understand the knowledge and practice relationship between these environments. Through the survey that was developed, it was identified that the majority of the learning about information security occurred in the workplace, where clear motivations, such as legislation and regulation, existed. It was also found that user's were more than willing to engage with such awareness raising initiatives. From a comparison of practice between work and home environments, it was found that this knowledge and practice obtained at the workplace was transferred to the home environment. Given this positive transferability of knowledge and the willingness to learn about how to remain secure, an opportunity exists to move away from specific organizational awareness programs and to move towards awareness raising strategies that, whilst deployed in the organization, will develop an all-round individual security culture for users independent of the environment within which they are operating.
format	Conference or Workshop Item
author	Talib, Shuhaili Clarke, Nathan L. Furnell, Steven M.
author_facet	Talib, Shuhaili Clarke, Nathan L. Furnell, Steven M.
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title	An analysis of information security awareness within home and work environments
title_short	An analysis of information security awareness within home and work environments
title_full	An analysis of information security awareness within home and work environments
title_fullStr	An analysis of information security awareness within home and work environments
title_full_unstemmed	An analysis of information security awareness within home and work environments
title_sort	analysis of information security awareness within home and work environments
publisher	IEEE
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