, 2009). End user awareness and understanding have (not surprisingly) been identified as essential in the overall efficacy of network and information system security success, and organizational culture appears to have a significant mediating or even controlling influence on the efficacy of security programs through their transformation of individual mindsets and group behaviors and attentions, and therefore the interpersonal and psychological aspects of end user security are necessary areas of ongoing study and clarification in order for truly practical and effective end user security measures to be created and adopted (Furnell, 2008; D'Arcy et al., 2009). Developing a comprehensive and pragmatically applicable understanding the relationship between the practical/concrete elements of the end user security plan or system and the abstract/personal/cultural elements of security success has proven problematic, and will be a focus of this research.
Relevance and Significance
Issues of end user security remain highly relevant, with a large and growing number of organizations employing information technologies and networks that require significant levels of security both to shield data from malicious access (both external attacks and internal misuse) and to ensure that proper use and protocols are encouraged to prevent accidental corruption. As increasing amounts of data are stored, manipulated, and transmitted within these organizations and information networks and as more and more of this data becomes sensitive in
There is already a large amount of research that delves into many areas of network and information security, including studies into different elements of end user security, which themselves stand as a testament to the continued importance of this research area and which explicitly call for an expansion of research topics the collection of more reliable and consistent details and evidence. This research will attempt to answer that call, supporting current findings and presenting more refined questions for future investigation.
References
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D'Arcy, J., Hovay, a. & Galleta, D. (2009). User Awareness of Security Countermeasures and Its Impact on Information Systems Misuse: A Deterrence Approach. Information Systems Research 20(1): 79-98.
Furnell, S. (2008). End-user security culture: A lesson that will never be learnt? Computer Fraud & Security (4): 6-9.
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Kulkarni, a. (2010). Mitigating Security Risks for End User Computing Application (EUCA) Data. IEEE Second International Conference on Social Computing: 1171-6.
