An Empirical Study of Employee’s Deviant Behavior for Improving Efficiency of Information Security Governance

Hye Jung Kim, Joong Ho Ahn

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For the continuous information security governance, we have to focus on not just technical aspects like access control and DRM, but informal level management like information security(IS) behavior, culture, and personal value. But there are few informal level studies, while many formal level studies of IS governance or technical means. This study is an empirical test that how IS culture, normal beliefs, personal behavior and value affect employee’s deviant behavior. And we define a lack of an awareness of value and importance on IS regulations in organizations as “Information Security Anomie” with the concept of anomie, a viewpoint on social organization.


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