Organisational culture, procedural countermeasures, and employee security behaviour

What is it about?

This paper provides new insights about security behaviour in selected U.S. and Irish organisations by investigating how organisational culture and procedural security countermeasures tend to influence employee security actions. An increasing number of information security breaches in organisations presents a serious threat to the confidentiality of personal and commercially sensitive data. While recent research shows that humans are the weakest link in the security chain and the root cause of a great portion of security breaches, the extant security literature tends to focus on technical issues.

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Why is it important?

This study extends general deterrence theory in a novel way by including information security awareness in the research model and by investigating both negative and positive behaviours.