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A Study on the Effects of Influencing Factors in the Security Environment of Military Organizational Members on Information Security Stress and Security Compliance Behavior Intention (군(軍) 조직구성원의 보안환경 영향요인이 보안 스트레스와 보안준수행동에 미치는 영향 연구)

  • Park, Eui Cheon;Jeon, Ki Seok
    • Convergence Security Journal
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    • v.21 no.3
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    • pp.93-104
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    • 2021
  • Today, due to the development of the 4th industrial revolution such as artificial intelligence, the security threat of the military organization is increasing. A study that can contribute to complying with military security is needed by studying the effects of influence factors occurring in this changing or newly emerging security environment on information security stress and security compliance behavior intention. In previous studies, task overload, task complexity, task uncertainty, and task conflict were extracted among environmental influencing factors that cause security stress. We empirically analyzed how these influencing factors affect security stress and whether they play a mediating role in security stress. As a result of the analysis, it was analyzed that the security stress was affected in the order of task overload, task conflict, and task uncertainty. Information security stress did not significantly affect security compliance behavior intention, but it was found to mediate the effect of task overload on security compliance behavior intention. This causes information security stress due to heavy security work in the military organization, which ultimately leads to lower security compliance behavior. Therefore, the security policy to manage this situation should be promoted first.

A Study on Employee's Compliance Behavior towards Information Security Policy : A Modified Triandis Model (조직 구성원의 정보보안정책 준수행동에 대한 연구 : 수정된 Triandis 모델의 적용)

  • Kim, Dae-Jin;Hwang, In-Ho;Kim, Jin-Soo
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.14 no.4
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    • pp.209-220
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    • 2016
  • Although organizations are providing information security policy, education and support to guide their employees in security policy compliance, accidents by non-compliance is still a never ending problem to organizations. This study investigates the factors that influence employees' information security policy compliance behavior using elements of Triandis model. We analyzed the relationships among Triandis model's factors using PLS(Partial Least Squares). The result of the hypothesis tests shows that organization can induce individual's information security policy compliance intention and behavior by information security policy and facilitating conditions that support it, and proves the importance of members' expected value, habit and affect about information security compliance. This study is significant in a way that it applies Triandis model in the field of information security, and presents direction for members' information security behavior, and will be able to provide measures to establish organization's information security policy and increase members' compliance behavior.

The Behavioral Attitude of Financial Firms' Employees on the Customer Information Security in Korea (금융회사의 고객정보보호에 대한 내부직원의 태도 연구)

  • Jung, Woo-Jin;Shin, Yu-Hyung;Lee, Sang-Yong Tom
    • Asia pacific journal of information systems
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    • v.22 no.1
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    • pp.53-77
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    • 2012
  • Financial firms, especially large scaled firms such as KB bank, NH bank, Samsung Card, Hana SK Card, Hyundai Capital, Shinhan Card, etc. should be securely dealing with the personal financial information. Indeed, people have tended to believe that those big financial companies are relatively safer in terms of information security than typical small and medium sized firms in other industries. However, the recent incidents of personal information privacy invasion showed that this may not be true. Financial firms have increased the investment of information protection and security, and they are trying to prevent the information privacy invasion accidents by doing all the necessary efforts. This paper studies how effectively a financial firm will be able to avoid personal financial information privacy invasion that may be deliberately caused by internal staffs. Although there are several literatures relating to information security, to our knowledge, this is the first study to focus on the behavior of internal staffs. The big financial firms are doing variety of information security activities to protect personal information. This study is to confirm what types of such activities actually work well. The primary research model of this paper is based on Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) that describes the rational choice of human behavior. Also, a variety of activities to protect the personal information of financial firms, especially credit card companies with the most customer information, were modeled by the four-step process Security Action Cycle (SAC) that Straub and Welke (1998) claimed. Through this proposed conceptual research model, we study whether information security activities of each step could suppress personal information abuse. Also, by measuring the morality of internal staffs, we checked whether the act of information privacy invasion caused by internal staff is in fact a serious criminal behavior or just a kind of unethical behavior. In addition, we also checked whether there was the cognition difference of the moral level between internal staffs and the customers. Research subjects were customer call center operators in one of the big credit card company. We have used multiple regression analysis. Our results showed that the punishment of the remedy activities, among the firm's information security activities, had the most obvious effects of preventing the information abuse (or privacy invasion) by internal staff. Somewhat effective tools were the prevention activities that limited the physical accessibility of non-authorities to the system of customers' personal information database. Some examples of the prevention activities are to make the procedure of access rights complex and to enhance security instrument. We also found that 'the unnecessary information searches out of work' as the behavior of information abuse occurred frequently by internal staffs. They perceived these behaviors somewhat minor criminal or just unethical action rather than a serious criminal behavior. Also, there existed the big cognition difference of the moral level between internal staffs and the public (customers). Based on the findings of our research, we should expect that this paper help practically to prevent privacy invasion and to protect personal information properly by raising the effectiveness of information security activities of finance firms. Also, we expect that our suggestions can be utilized to effectively improve personnel management and to cope with internal security threats in the overall information security management system.

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A Study on the Dual Mediating Effects of Individual Optimistic Bias and Information Security Intent in the Relationship between Information Security Attitude and Information Security Behavior of Social Welfare College Students (사회복지 전공대학생의 정보보안 태도와 정보보안 행위와의 관계에서 개인의 낙관적 편견과 정보보안 의도의 이중 매개효과)

  • Yun, Il-Hyun
    • Journal of Industrial Convergence
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    • v.19 no.6
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    • pp.145-153
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    • 2021
  • This study empirically verified whether there is a dual mediating effect of individual optimistic bias and information security intention in the relationship between information security attitude and information security behavior of social welfare college students. The subjects were 295 college students majoring in social welfare. Spss Process macro was used for analysis. As a result. first there was a significant positive correlation between the variables. Second in the relationship between information security attitude and information security behavior, individual optimistic bias and information security intent each had a simple mediating effect. Third when an individual's optimistic bias and information security intent were simultaneously input, each had a simple mediating effect. Fourth there was a double mediating effect between individual optimistic bias and information security intent. This study provided basic data for the expansion of information security model and information security education of social welfare students.

The Influence of Information Security Behaviors on Information Security Performance in Shipping and Port Organization (해운항만조직의 정보보안이행이 정보보안성과에 미치는 영향)

  • Kang, Da-Yeon;Chang, Myung-Hee
    • Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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    • v.40 no.4
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    • pp.213-222
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    • 2016
  • Recently, as cases of organizations' information disclosure occur continuously, it is urgent to manage security of information and establish measures to enhance security of information by an organization itself. Especially, members of an organization should be prepared with measures for information security, and an organization should do its efforts to raise its members' awareness toward information security. I set a research model to verify what effects an organization's fulfillment of regulations to secure information brings to performance of information security and selected members from maritime and port organizations and financial and insurance institutes as sample. Results of the analysis to identify factors affecting information security performance among members of maritime and port organizations are as follows. Firstly, I found that the factors affecting information security awareness are information security attitude and information security standards. Secondly, the factor giving influence on information security policy of an organization was found to be information security standards. In contrast, information security punishments and information security training were verified not to give influence on compliance of information security policy. Thirdly, information security awareness was identified to give significant influence on compliance of information security policy, information security competence and information security behavior. Fourthly, compliance of information security policy was verified to be those factors that give influence on information security competence and information security behavior. Lastly, information security competence and information security behavior were found to be such factors that give influence on information security performance.

Analysis of the Effects of Information Security Policy Awareness, Information Security Involvement, and Compliance Behavioral Intention on Information Security behavior : Focursing on Reward and Fairness (정보보안 정책 인식과 정보보안 관여성, 준수 의도성이 정보보안 행동에 미치는 영향 분석: 보상 차원과 공정성 차원을 중심으로)

  • Hu, Sung-ho;Hwang, In-ho
    • Journal of Convergence for Information Technology
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    • v.10 no.12
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    • pp.91-99
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    • 2020
  • The aim of this study to assess the effect of information security policy awareness, information security involvement, compliance behavioral intention on information security behavior The research method is composed of a cross-sectional design of reward and fairness. This paper focuses on the process of organizational policy on the information security compliance intention in the individual decision-making process. As a result, the reward had a significant effect on compliance behavioral intention, and it was found that influence of the psychological reward-based condition was greater than the material reward-based condition. The fairness had a significant effect on information security policy awareness, information security involvement, information security behavior, and it was found that influence of the equity-based condition was greater than the equality-based condition. The exploration model was verified as a multiple mediation model. In addition, the discussion presented the necessary research direction from the perspective of synergy by the cultural environment of individuals and organizations.

Flow-based Anomaly Detection Using Access Behavior Profiling and Time-sequenced Relation Mining

  • Liu, Weixin;Zheng, Kangfeng;Wu, Bin;Wu, Chunhua;Niu, Xinxin
    • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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    • v.10 no.6
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    • pp.2781-2800
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    • 2016
  • Emerging attacks aim to access proprietary assets and steal data for business or political motives, such as Operation Aurora and Operation Shady RAT. Skilled Intruders would likely remove their traces on targeted hosts, but their network movements, which are continuously recorded by network devices, cannot be easily eliminated by themselves. However, without complete knowledge about both inbound/outbound and internal traffic, it is difficult for security team to unveil hidden traces of intruders. In this paper, we propose an autonomous anomaly detection system based on behavior profiling and relation mining. The single-hop access profiling model employ a novel linear grouping algorithm PSOLGA to create behavior profiles for each individual server application discovered automatically in historical flow analysis. Besides that, the double-hop access relation model utilizes in-memory graph to mine time-sequenced access relations between different server applications. Using the behavior profiles and relation rules, this approach is able to detect possible anomalies and violations in real-time detection. Finally, the experimental results demonstrate that the designed models are promising in terms of accuracy and computational efficiency.

A Study on the Influence of Victimization Experience and Awareness on Cyber Security Behavior - Focusing on Dual Process Theory (침해 경험 및 정보보호 인식이 정보보호 행동에 미치는 영향에 대한 연구 : 이중 프로세스 이론을 중심으로)

  • Kim, Chang-Il;Heo, Deok-Won;Lee, Hye-Min;Sung, Wook-Joon
    • Informatization Policy
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    • v.26 no.2
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    • pp.62-80
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    • 2019
  • The purpose of this study is to investigate the direct effect of victimization experience on cyber security behavior and the indirect effect of information protection awareness through the Dual Process Theory. Baron & Kenny regression analysis was conducted and the results are as follows - first, victimization experience has a positive effect on cyber security behavior; second, the relationship between victimization experience and cyber security behavior is mediated by cyber security awareness; and third, the direct effect of victimization experience on cyber security behavior and the indirect mediating effect of cyber security awareness are both positive (+). The direct effect of victimization experience on cyber security behavior is analyzed to be relatively large compared to the indirect effect that cyber security awareness has on cyber security behavior. Based on these results, It is suggested that periodic cyber security education and campaign policies are needed to enhance cyber security behavior.

An Empirical Study of Employee's Deviant Behavior for Improving Efficiency of Information Security Governance (정보보호 거버넌스 효율성 제고를 위한 조직원의 정보보호 행위에 관한 실증 연구)

  • Kim, Hye Jung;Ahn, Joong Ho
    • The Journal of Society for e-Business Studies
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    • v.18 no.1
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    • pp.147-164
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    • 2013
  • For the continuous information security governance, we have to focus on not just technical aspects like access control and DRM, but informal level management like information security(IS) behavior, culture, and personal value. But there are few informal level studies, while many formal level studies of IS governance or technical means. This study is an empirical test that how IS culture, normal beliefs, personal behavior and value affect employee's deviant behavior. And we define a lack of an awareness of value and importance on IS regulations in organizations as "Information Security Anomie" with the concept of anomie, a viewpoint on social organization.

The Effect of Organizational Justice on Information Security-Related Role Stress and Negative Behaviors

  • Hwang, Inho;Ahn, SangJoon
    • Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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    • v.24 no.11
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    • pp.87-98
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    • 2019
  • In recent years, many organizations protect their information resources by investing in information security technology. However, information security threats from insiders have not been reduced. This study proposes a method for reducing information security threats within an organization by mitigating negative information security behaviors of employees. Specifically, the study finds a relationship between information security related role stress and negative behavior and suggests whether organizational justice mitigates role stress. That is, the purpose of the study is to suggest a mechanism between organizational justice, information security related role stress, and negative behavior. Negative behavior consist of avoidance behavior and deviant behavior, and security related role stress consist of role conflict and role ambiguity. Organizational justice consist of distributional justice, procedural justice, and informational justice. The research model is verified through structural equation modeling. After establishing a research model and hypothesis, we develop a survey questionnaire and collect data from 383 employees whose organizations have already implemented security policies. The findings appear that security related role stress increases negative behavior and that organizational justice mitigates role stress. The results of the analysis suggest the direction of organizational strategy for minimizing insider's security-related negative behaviors.