Information security policy perceived compliance among staff in Palestine universities: An empirical pilot study

In today’s interconnected world, universities recognize the importance of protecting their information assets from internal and external threats. Being the possible insider threats to Information Security, employees are often coined as the weakest link. Both employees and organizations should be aw...

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Main Authors:	Mohammad Iriqat, Yousef, Ahlan, Abdul Rahman, Abdul Molok, Nurul Nuha
Format:	Conference or Workshop Item
Language:	English English
Published:	IEEE 2019
Subjects:	T Technology (General) T58.5 Information technology T58.6 Management information systems
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spelling	iium-716102020-01-06T17:17:44Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/71610/ Information security policy perceived compliance among staff in Palestine universities: An empirical pilot study Mohammad Iriqat, Yousef Ahlan, Abdul Rahman Abdul Molok, Nurul Nuha T Technology (General) T58.5 Information technology T58.6 Management information systems In today’s interconnected world, universities recognize the importance of protecting their information assets from internal and external threats. Being the possible insider threats to Information Security, employees are often coined as the weakest link. Both employees and organizations should be aware of this raising challenge. Understanding staff perception of compliance behaviour is critical for universities wanting to leverage their staff capabilities to mitigate Information Security risks. Therefore, this research seeks to get insights into staff perception based on factors adopted from several theories by using proposed constructs i.e. "perceived" practices/policies and "perceived" intention to comply. Drawing from the General Deterrence Theory, Protection Motivation Theory, Theory of Planned Behaviour and Information Reinforcement, within the context of Palestine universities, this paper integrates staff awareness of Information Security Policies (ISP) countermeasures as antecedents to “perceived” influencing factors (perceived sanctions, perceived rewards, perceived coping appraisal, and perceived information reinforcement). The empirical study is designed to follow a quantitative research approaches, use survey as a data collection method and questionnaires as the research instruments. Partial least squares structural equation modelling is used to inspect the reliability and validity of the measurement model and hypotheses testing for the structural model. The research covers ISP awareness among staff and seeks to assert that information security is the responsibility of all academic and administrative staff from all departments. Overall, our pilot study findings seem promising, and we found strong support for our theoretical model. IEEE 2019 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/71610/13/71610%20Information%20Security%20Policy%20Perceived.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/71610/7/71610_Information%20security%20policy%20perceived%20compliance_scopus.pdf Mohammad Iriqat, Yousef and Ahlan, Abdul Rahman and Abdul Molok, Nurul Nuha (2019) Information security policy perceived compliance among staff in Palestine universities: An empirical pilot study. In: 2019 IEEE Jordan International Joint Conference on Electrical Engineering and Information Technology (JEEIT), 9th-11th April 2019, Amman, Jordan. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/8717438
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spellingShingle	T Technology (General) T58.5 Information technology T58.6 Management information systems Mohammad Iriqat, Yousef Ahlan, Abdul Rahman Abdul Molok, Nurul Nuha Information security policy perceived compliance among staff in Palestine universities: An empirical pilot study
description	In today’s interconnected world, universities recognize the importance of protecting their information assets from internal and external threats. Being the possible insider threats to Information Security, employees are often coined as the weakest link. Both employees and organizations should be aware of this raising challenge. Understanding staff perception of compliance behaviour is critical for universities wanting to leverage their staff capabilities to mitigate Information Security risks. Therefore, this research seeks to get insights into staff perception based on factors adopted from several theories by using proposed constructs i.e. "perceived" practices/policies and "perceived" intention to comply. Drawing from the General Deterrence Theory, Protection Motivation Theory, Theory of Planned Behaviour and Information Reinforcement, within the context of Palestine universities, this paper integrates staff awareness of Information Security Policies (ISP) countermeasures as antecedents to “perceived” influencing factors (perceived sanctions, perceived rewards, perceived coping appraisal, and perceived information reinforcement). The empirical study is designed to follow a quantitative research approaches, use survey as a data collection method and questionnaires as the research instruments. Partial least squares structural equation modelling is used to inspect the reliability and validity of the measurement model and hypotheses testing for the structural model. The research covers ISP awareness among staff and seeks to assert that information security is the responsibility of all academic and administrative staff from all departments. Overall, our pilot study findings seem promising, and we found strong support for our theoretical model.
format	Conference or Workshop Item
author	Mohammad Iriqat, Yousef Ahlan, Abdul Rahman Abdul Molok, Nurul Nuha
author_facet	Mohammad Iriqat, Yousef Ahlan, Abdul Rahman Abdul Molok, Nurul Nuha
author_sort	Mohammad Iriqat, Yousef
title	Information security policy perceived compliance among staff in Palestine universities: An empirical pilot study
title_short	Information security policy perceived compliance among staff in Palestine universities: An empirical pilot study
title_full	Information security policy perceived compliance among staff in Palestine universities: An empirical pilot study
title_fullStr	Information security policy perceived compliance among staff in Palestine universities: An empirical pilot study
title_full_unstemmed	Information security policy perceived compliance among staff in Palestine universities: An empirical pilot study
title_sort	information security policy perceived compliance among staff in palestine universities: an empirical pilot study
publisher	IEEE
publishDate	2019
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Information security policy perceived compliance among staff in Palestine universities: An empirical pilot study

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