• DocumentCode
    3318014
  • Title

    Senior Executives Commitment to Information Security - from Motivation to Responsibility

  • Author

    Kajava, Jorma ; Anttila, Juhani ; Varonen, Rauno ; Savola, Reijo ; Röning, Juha

  • Author_Institution
    Lapland Univ., Rovaniemi
  • Volume
    2
  • fYear
    2006
  • fDate
    3-6 Nov. 2006
  • Firstpage
    1519
  • Lastpage
    1522
  • Abstract
    For senior executives, information security is a basic requirement for business success. Yet, despite being well-motivated, top managers often have only a superficial understanding of information security, which may lead them to make decisions that are not conducive to raising the organization´s security level. Enhancing information security awareness among all employees has been found necessary, but the key to success is raising the awareness level of senior management. Playing a decisive role, they must assume overall responsibility for information security. The question is how to achieve this in an efficient and natural way
  • Keywords
    information management; security of data; business success; information security awareness; motivation; organization security; responsibility; senior executives; Collaborative work; Companies; Costs; Delay; ISO standards; Information management; Information security; Outsourcing; Safety; Subcontracting;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Computational Intelligence and Security, 2006 International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Guangzhou
  • Print_ISBN
    1-4244-0605-6
  • Electronic_ISBN
    1-4244-0605-6
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICCIAS.2006.295314
  • Filename
    4076220