Title :
Information security awareness in university: Maintaining learnability, performance and adaptability through roles of responsibility
Author :
Ahlan, Abdul Rahman ; Lubis, Muharman
Author_Institution :
Inf. Technol. Div. (ITD), Int. Islamic Univ. of Malaysia (IIUM), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Abstract :
As the 21st century approached, the current trend of technology product besides deliver the benefit on availability and accessibility on information, problem emerged regard information security. In order to analyze on how technology introduces new risks, it is necessary to discuss the technology lifecycle. Consider for instance the life cycle of technology as the diffusion of an innovation. Since technological innovations or IT solutions are being adopted to support business processes, the need to protect those IT solutions arises with its adoption. Accordingly, two important factors need much consideration in raising awareness are how organization influences significantly of end user´s attitude and how the organization has the regular assessment or evaluation to measure the effectiveness of IS awareness policy inside the organization.
Keywords :
educational institutions; information retrieval; innovation management; life cycle costing; security of data; IS awareness policy; IT solutions; adaptability; business processes; end user attitude; information accessibility; information availability; information security awareness; learnability; technological innovations; technology lifecycle; university; Educational institutions; Human factors; Humans; Information security; Organizations; Training; adaptability; information security awareness; learnability; performance; roles of responsibility;
Conference_Titel :
Information Assurance and Security (IAS), 2011 7th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Melaka
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-2154-0
DOI :
10.1109/ISIAS.2011.6122827