Haste in Knowledge-Intensive Work: A Major Threat to Information Security Management in Business Environments

Information security is a comprehensive and specialized discipline and related to many different topics of business and science. In this framework, this paper focuses on the role and behavior of business leaders in the hectic modern business environments in realizing and practicing business-related information security management. One of the most obvious characteristics of our modern society and all kinds of organizational activities is an immense haste. This is a major threat to organizations´ performance including information security. The aim of the paper is mainly practical to bring forward problems and challenges of todaypsilas business environments in order to help organizations and their leaders avoid or repeat pitfalls. Topics presented are new breakthrough issues compared to typical current organizational applications and researches in the field information security management. The paper may also be seen as a source of ideas for interesting and significant future research topics. The situational knowledge for the paper is based on observations by the authors. The paper provides viewpoints of industrial practitioner and university researcher knowing by experience real difficulties and possibilities. Also recognized researchers have been referred for linking to statistical data, and sound knowledge from different cross-scientific sources has been combined from the information security point of view.