Regulations, Frames of Reference, Information Systems Security and it Governance

Decision Making, IT Governance, and Information Systems Security

The complex issue of IS security involves organizational factors. Decision making, an important area of organizations, however, has only been studied to a limited extent in relation to IS security. In this paper we explore the relationship between organizational distribution of decision rights and IS security. We review the security literature and identify three aspects of an organization as wh...

Corporate Governance and Information Security

Reference frames, superselection rules, and quantum information

Stephen D. Bartlett, Terry Rudolph, 3 and Robert W. Spekkens School of Physics, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales 2006, Australia Optics Section, Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College London, London SW7 2BW, United Kingdom Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Imperial College London, London SW7 2BW, United Kingdom Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Univer...

Information Systems Security Governance Research: A Behavioral Perspective

Behavioral information systems security governance entails managing the informal structures in an organization to ensure an appropriate security environment. Informal structures in an organization comprise the individual values, beliefs and behavior prevalent in an organization guiding the norms and employee perception of job responsibilities. Five consistent themes arise from a critical review...

Autonomic Framework for It Security Governance

With the recent service enhancements over the Internet, organisations are confronted with a growing magnitude of security intrusions and attacks. Current intrusion detection strategies have not been effective in the long term, as new and obfuscated security attacks keep emerging evading the surveillance mechanisms. With information technology (IT) playing a pivotal role in today’s organizationa...