Information security awareness through the use of social media
The proliferation of online social media use amongst employees has been reported to be incriminating organizational information security. Despite the benefits of social media to organizations, there were cases of information leakage, malware, identity theft, espionage and sabotage through such use....
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| author | Abdul Molok, Nurul Nuha Md Ali, Asma Talib, Shuhaili Mahmud, Murni |
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| description | The proliferation of online social media use amongst employees has been reported to be incriminating organizational information security. Despite the benefits of social media to organizations, there were cases of information leakage, malware, identity theft, espionage and sabotage through such use. This paper explores employees' awareness of information security around social media and presents the initial findings of a study on a tertiary education institution in Malaysia. As an extension to a previous study, this study also found that employees were not only disclosing personal information but they are also disclosing organizational information on social media. This indicates there is a potential for information security threats to organizations through employees' use of social media. Nevertheless, the findings demonstrate that some participants were aware about the implications of employees' use of social media to information security. |
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| spelling | iium-402542019-10-17T08:42:30Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/40254/ Information security awareness through the use of social media Abdul Molok, Nurul Nuha Md Ali, Asma Talib, Shuhaili Mahmud, Murni T10.5 Communication of technical information The proliferation of online social media use amongst employees has been reported to be incriminating organizational information security. Despite the benefits of social media to organizations, there were cases of information leakage, malware, identity theft, espionage and sabotage through such use. This paper explores employees' awareness of information security around social media and presents the initial findings of a study on a tertiary education institution in Malaysia. As an extension to a previous study, this study also found that employees were not only disclosing personal information but they are also disclosing organizational information on social media. This indicates there is a potential for information security threats to organizations through employees' use of social media. Nevertheless, the findings demonstrate that some participants were aware about the implications of employees' use of social media to information security. IEEE 2015 Proceeding Paper PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/40254/1/Information_security_awareness_through_the_use_of_social_media.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/40254/2/ICT4M_2014_Prog_Book.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/40254/6/40254_Information%20security%20awareness%20through%20the%20use%20of%20social%20media.SCOPUSpdf.pdf Abdul Molok, Nurul Nuha and Md Ali, Asma and Talib, Shuhaili and Mahmud, Murni (2015) Information security awareness through the use of social media. In: 5th International Conference on Information & Communication Technology for The Muslim World (ICT4M 2014), 17th - 19th November 2014, Kuching, Sarawak. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7020668/keywords#keywords 10.1109/ICT4M.2014.7020668 |
| spellingShingle | T10.5 Communication of technical information Abdul Molok, Nurul Nuha Md Ali, Asma Talib, Shuhaili Mahmud, Murni Information security awareness through the use of social media |
| title | Information security awareness through the use of social media |
| title_full | Information security awareness through the use of social media |
| title_fullStr | Information security awareness through the use of social media |
| title_full_unstemmed | Information security awareness through the use of social media |
| title_short | Information security awareness through the use of social media |
| title_sort | information security awareness through the use of social media |
| topic | T10.5 Communication of technical information |
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