RT Journal Article
A1 Nader Sohrabi Safa
A1 Carsten Maple
A1 Tim Watson
A1 Steve Furnell

PB iet
T1 Information security collaboration formation in organisations
JN IET Information Security
VO 12
IS 3
SP 238
OP 245
AB The protection of organisational information assets requires the collaboration of all employees; information security collaboration (ISC) aggregates the efforts of employees in order to mitigate the effect of information security breaches and incidents. However, it is acknowledged that ISC formation and its development needs more investigation. This research endeavours to show how ISC forms and develops in the context of an organisation based on social bond factors. The social bond theory and theory of planned behaviour describe the effect of social bond factors on the attitude of employees and finally their behaviour regarding collaboration in the domain of information security. The results of the data analysis reveal that personal norms, involvement, and commitment to their organisation significantly influence the employees’ attitude towards ISC intention. However, contrary to the authors expectation, attachment does not influence the attitude of employees towards ISC. In addition, attitudes towards ISC, perceived behavioural control, and personal norms significantly affect the intention of employees towards ISC. The findings also show that the employees’ intention towards ISC and organisational support positively influence ISC, but that trust does not significantly affect ISC behaviour.
K1 personal norms
K1 information security collaboration formation
K1 perceived behavioural control
K1 organisational support
K1 employees attitude
K1 ISC formation
K1 data analysis
K1 social bond factors
K1 information security breaches
K1 information security incidents
K1 ISC intention
K1 theory-of-planned behaviour
K1 organisational information assets protection
DO https://doi.org/10.1049/iet-ifs.2017.0257
UL https://digital-library.theiet.org/;jsessionid=51rvvsqkd4eh1.x-iet-live-01content/journals/10.1049/iet-ifs.2017.0257
LA English
SN 1751-8709
YR 2018
OL EN