An Empirical Investigation of Factors Influencing Information Security Behavior

Sunil Hazari, William Hargrave and Beth Clenney

Journal of Information Privacy and Security, 2008, vol. 4, issue 4, 3-20

Abstract: The topic of information security has been studied mostly in the context of organizational and enterprise security. Today, organizational employees who are also home users of computing technology are vulnerable to security breaches unless they abide by company policy to use safeguards such as firewalls and antivirus programs. It is important to understand factors that influence Work Related Home Computing (WRHC) users to maintain information security. This study uses Ajzen’s Theory of Planned Behavior to investigate factors related to WRHC users’ information security awareness. Demographic characteristics, attitudes, subjective norm, and perceived behavioral control that affect behavioral intention were studied to identify determinants of information security behavior. It was found that intention to maintain information security behavior was predicted mostly by exogenous variables of attitude and confidence of participants in the study.

Date: 2008
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DOI: 10.1080/2333696X.2008.10855849

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