Exploring the use of online social networking by employees: Looking at the potential for information leakage
The proliferation of online social networking (OSN) in recent years has caused organizations information security threats due to disclosure of information by their employees on their sites. The accessibility of OSN to anyone, at any time, using any devices, causes confidential and sensitive organiza...
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| author | Abdul Molok, Nurul Nuha Ahmad, Atif Chang, Shanton |
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| description | The proliferation of online social networking (OSN) in recent years has caused organizations information security threats due to disclosure of information by their employees on their sites. The accessibility of OSN to anyone, at any time, using any devices, causes confidential and sensitive organizational information to be disclosed to unauthorised individuals, whether accidentally or intentionally. This study aims to explore this current phenomenon by investigating OSN use behaviour among employees that leads to information leakage through the lens of Decomposed Theory of Planned Behavior. It also seeks to investigate the strategies utilized by organizations to control such use and propose a control framework that effectively safeguards organizational information security from this threat. |
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| spelling | iium-88442013-10-29T07:31:20Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/8844/ Exploring the use of online social networking by employees: Looking at the potential for information leakage Abdul Molok, Nurul Nuha Ahmad, Atif Chang, Shanton H61.8 Communication of information T58.6 Management information systems The proliferation of online social networking (OSN) in recent years has caused organizations information security threats due to disclosure of information by their employees on their sites. The accessibility of OSN to anyone, at any time, using any devices, causes confidential and sensitive organizational information to be disclosed to unauthorised individuals, whether accidentally or intentionally. This study aims to explore this current phenomenon by investigating OSN use behaviour among employees that leads to information leakage through the lens of Decomposed Theory of Planned Behavior. It also seeks to investigate the strategies utilized by organizations to control such use and propose a control framework that effectively safeguards organizational information security from this threat. 2011 Proceeding Paper PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/8844/3/Abdul_Molok%2C_Ahmad_%26_Chang_2011_-_Exploring_the_use_of_OSN_by_employees.pdf Abdul Molok, Nurul Nuha and Ahmad, Atif and Chang, Shanton (2011) Exploring the use of online social networking by employees: Looking at the potential for information leakage. In: Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems, 7 - 11 July 2011, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. http://aisel.aisnet.org/pacis2011/138/ |
| spellingShingle | H61.8 Communication of information T58.6 Management information systems Abdul Molok, Nurul Nuha Ahmad, Atif Chang, Shanton Exploring the use of online social networking by employees: Looking at the potential for information leakage |
| title | Exploring the use of online social networking by employees: Looking at the potential for information leakage |
| title_full | Exploring the use of online social networking by employees: Looking at the potential for information leakage |
| title_fullStr | Exploring the use of online social networking by employees: Looking at the potential for information leakage |
| title_full_unstemmed | Exploring the use of online social networking by employees: Looking at the potential for information leakage |
| title_short | Exploring the use of online social networking by employees: Looking at the potential for information leakage |
| title_sort | exploring the use of online social networking by employees: looking at the potential for information leakage |
| topic | H61.8 Communication of information T58.6 Management information systems |
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