Exploring the factors influencing top management involvement and participation in information security

Organizations that rely heavily on ICT face bigger challenges to safeguard their information assets. Organizations need to be vigilant to cope with ever growing information security risks and threats due to technological advancement. All employees, from the senior management to the junior subordina...

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Main Authors:	Abdul Munir, Rufizah, Abdul Molok, Nurul Nuha, Talib, Shuhaili
Format:	Conference or Workshop Item
Language:	English
Published:	AIS Electronic Library (AISeL) 2017
Subjects:	T10.5 Communication of technical information
Online Access:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/62418/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/62418/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/62418/1/Exploring%20the%20Factors%20influencing%20Top%20Management%20Involvement%20and.pdf

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spelling	iium-624182018-06-25T04:34:12Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/62418/ Exploring the factors influencing top management involvement and participation in information security Abdul Munir, Rufizah Abdul Molok, Nurul Nuha Talib, Shuhaili T10.5 Communication of technical information Organizations that rely heavily on ICT face bigger challenges to safeguard their information assets. Organizations need to be vigilant to cope with ever growing information security risks and threats due to technological advancement. All employees, from the senior management to the junior subordinate, have the responsibility to protect organizational information from such threats. Top management members are accountable to play imperative roles in steering information security programs to ensure the confidentiality, integrity and availability (CIA) of organizational valuable assets are protected. They should be more involved to allow information security to become an intrinsic part of corporate governance. However, information security is often viewed as technical and operational issues rather than business issues, thus it is delegated to IT and security team. This conceptual study aims to explore this current phenomenon by investigating the factors influencing top management in governing information security implementation in organizations. Qualitative research approach is proposed for this study by interviewing the members of top management in the Malaysian public sector organizations. The understanding of the influencing factors would assist in formulating a dedicated information security training and awareness framework tailored for the top management. Since most information security awareness programs are designed for lower and middle level employees, this study aims to fulfil this gap by focusing on specific training guidelines for the top management. The proposed framework will help public sector organizations to produce, or improve existing, competency development programs. It will help the members of top management to exercise due diligence and understand their roles and responsibilities as the key driver in governing information security implementation in their organizations. AIS Electronic Library (AISeL) 2017-07-16 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/62418/1/Exploring%20the%20Factors%20influencing%20Top%20Management%20Involvement%20and.pdf Abdul Munir, Rufizah and Abdul Molok, Nurul Nuha and Talib, Shuhaili (2017) Exploring the factors influencing top management involvement and participation in information security. In: Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems 2017 (PACIS 2017), 16-20 July 2017, Kedah, Malaysia.. http://aisel.aisnet.org/pacis2017/273
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spellingShingle	T10.5 Communication of technical information Abdul Munir, Rufizah Abdul Molok, Nurul Nuha Talib, Shuhaili Exploring the factors influencing top management involvement and participation in information security
description	Organizations that rely heavily on ICT face bigger challenges to safeguard their information assets. Organizations need to be vigilant to cope with ever growing information security risks and threats due to technological advancement. All employees, from the senior management to the junior subordinate, have the responsibility to protect organizational information from such threats. Top management members are accountable to play imperative roles in steering information security programs to ensure the confidentiality, integrity and availability (CIA) of organizational valuable assets are protected. They should be more involved to allow information security to become an intrinsic part of corporate governance. However, information security is often viewed as technical and operational issues rather than business issues, thus it is delegated to IT and security team. This conceptual study aims to explore this current phenomenon by investigating the factors influencing top management in governing information security implementation in organizations. Qualitative research approach is proposed for this study by interviewing the members of top management in the Malaysian public sector organizations. The understanding of the influencing factors would assist in formulating a dedicated information security training and awareness framework tailored for the top management. Since most information security awareness programs are designed for lower and middle level employees, this study aims to fulfil this gap by focusing on specific training guidelines for the top management. The proposed framework will help public sector organizations to produce, or improve existing, competency development programs. It will help the members of top management to exercise due diligence and understand their roles and responsibilities as the key driver in governing information security implementation in their organizations.
format	Conference or Workshop Item
author	Abdul Munir, Rufizah Abdul Molok, Nurul Nuha Talib, Shuhaili
author_facet	Abdul Munir, Rufizah Abdul Molok, Nurul Nuha Talib, Shuhaili
author_sort	Abdul Munir, Rufizah
title	Exploring the factors influencing top management involvement and participation in information security
title_short	Exploring the factors influencing top management involvement and participation in information security
title_full	Exploring the factors influencing top management involvement and participation in information security
title_fullStr	Exploring the factors influencing top management involvement and participation in information security
title_full_unstemmed	Exploring the factors influencing top management involvement and participation in information security
title_sort	exploring the factors influencing top management involvement and participation in information security
publisher	AIS Electronic Library (AISeL)
publishDate	2017
url	http://irep.iium.edu.my/62418/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/62418/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/62418/1/Exploring%20the%20Factors%20influencing%20Top%20Management%20Involvement%20and.pdf
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