Purpose: Study aims to: 1. Develop a comprehensive framework for the effective application of information security encompassing the internal and external technical environment, formal and informal management, and includes several aspects from an organizational perspective and between organizations in the context of the supply chain. 2. Exploring the potential outcomes and outcomes of the effect...

Originality/value This paper proposes a new work practices model of network security professionals, which is built by consolidating existing empirical evidence and validated by conducting a survey of network security professionals. The findings enhance the understanding of tool developers about the day-to-day activities of network security professionals, consequently assisting developers in des...

Background and Goal: ICT development in recent years has created excellent developments in human social and economic life. One of the most important opportunities to use information technology is in the medical field, that the result would be electronic health record (EHR).The purpose of this research is to investigate the effects information securi...

The paper presents a study of IT systems abuses, based on 390 responses from the Norwegian Computer Crime Survey 2006, and qualitative data from personal interviews of 94 employees in four enterprises required to obey the Norwegian Security Act. The aim of the study has been to shed light on a handful organizational security measures that contribute to the detection and reporting of security in...

Purpose – The aim of this research is to make users aware of the importance surrounding the issue of security and security awareness while at the same time making educators as well as other individuals aware of the differing effects of cultural dimensions into the learning process. Design/methodology/approach – An inter-cultural study was conducted to investigate if users from the USA and Taiwa...

Honeypot is a security device the value of which lies mainly in discovering and inspecting, being attacked and being at risk. Most of the present Honeypots are configured and installed on the network statically. In some cases considerations have been made on dynamic configuration of Honeypots at the time of installation but still no study have been carried out on how to instantaneously change t...

This paper presents a User Cooperation Trust Model (UCTM) which not only encourages the good behavior liberally, but also punishes those minatory behaviors decisively. In this model, a malicious user will be kicked out from the network system and refused from accessing resources of the network automatically when the user's reputation is lower than some threshold.