Mar 14, 2015 | Research
Fear appeals, which are used widely in information security campaigns, have become common tools in motivating individual compliance with information security policies and procedures. However, empirical assessments of the effectiveness of fear appeals have yielded...Mar 1, 2014 | Research
The key threat to information security comes from employees who do not comply with information security policies. We developed a new multi-theory based model that explained employees’ adherence to security policies. The paradigm combines elements from the Protection...Jun 18, 2013 | Research
In order to ensure that employees abide by their organizations’ Information Security Policies (ISP), a number of information security policy compliance measures have been proposed in the past. If different factors can explain/predict the information security behavior...May 31, 2013 | Research
Employees’ non-compliance with information systems (IS) security policies is a key concern for organizations. Previous studies have proposed different explanations for employees’ behavior, such as the use of sanctions and monitoring, fear appeal and training, which...May 1, 2012 | Research
Employees’ failure to comply with IS security procedures is a key concern for organizations. Prior studies have not examined the influence of past and automatic behavior on employee decisions to comply. This is an important omission because past behavior has been...