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Disclosure of organizational information by employees on Facebook: Looking at the potential for information security risks

Online social networking (OSN) is a global phenomenon and its use by employees has been reported to be detrimental to organizations. Nevertheless, OSN impacts on organizational information security are rarely discussed in academic literature. This study investigates the use of OSN sites by employees...

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Main Authors: Abdul Molok , Nurul Nuha, Ahmad, Atif, Chang, Shanton
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
Published: 2011
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H61.8 Communication of information
T58.6 Management information systems
Online Access:http://irep.iium.edu.my/33079/1/Abdul_Molok%2C_Ahmad_%26_Chang_2011_-_Disclosure_of_Org_Info_by_Employees_on_Facebook.pdf
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spelling my.iium.irep.330792013-11-29T04:25:06Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/33079/ Disclosure of organizational information by employees on Facebook: Looking at the potential for information security risks Abdul Molok , Nurul Nuha Ahmad, Atif Chang, Shanton H61.8 Communication of information T58.6 Management information systems Online social networking (OSN) is a global phenomenon and its use by employees has been reported to be detrimental to organizations. Nevertheless, OSN impacts on organizational information security are rarely discussed in academic literature. This study investigates the use of OSN sites by employees and work-related information disclosed on their personal pages that may jeopardize the security of organizational information. The paper presents the characteristics of work-related information that can be disclosed on Facebook, possibly has the potential to open the doorway for information security threats. It also discusses the qualitative findings from four Malaysian-based organizations under study. Across these four organizations, 22 employees who were active users of Facebook were interviewed to obtain their OSN experience, to explore information they disclosed online and the underlying reasons for doing so. The findings will facilitate our recommendation for organizations to minimize this issue by understanding the behavioural facets of information security. 2011-12 Conference or Workshop Item REM application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/33079/1/Abdul_Molok%2C_Ahmad_%26_Chang_2011_-_Disclosure_of_Org_Info_by_Employees_on_Facebook.pdf Abdul Molok , Nurul Nuha and Ahmad, Atif and Chang, Shanton (2011) Disclosure of organizational information by employees on Facebook: Looking at the potential for information security risks. In: 22nd Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS), 30th Nov - 2nd Dec 2011, Sydney, Australia. http://aisel.aisnet.org/acis2011/78/
institution Universiti Islam Antarabangsa Malaysia
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topic H61.8 Communication of information
T58.6 Management information systems
spellingShingle H61.8 Communication of information
T58.6 Management information systems
Abdul Molok , Nurul Nuha
Ahmad, Atif
Chang, Shanton
Disclosure of organizational information by employees on Facebook: Looking at the potential for information security risks
description Online social networking (OSN) is a global phenomenon and its use by employees has been reported to be detrimental to organizations. Nevertheless, OSN impacts on organizational information security are rarely discussed in academic literature. This study investigates the use of OSN sites by employees and work-related information disclosed on their personal pages that may jeopardize the security of organizational information. The paper presents the characteristics of work-related information that can be disclosed on Facebook, possibly has the potential to open the doorway for information security threats. It also discusses the qualitative findings from four Malaysian-based organizations under study. Across these four organizations, 22 employees who were active users of Facebook were interviewed to obtain their OSN experience, to explore information they disclosed online and the underlying reasons for doing so. The findings will facilitate our recommendation for organizations to minimize this issue by understanding the behavioural facets of information security.
format Conference or Workshop Item
author Abdul Molok , Nurul Nuha
Ahmad, Atif
Chang, Shanton
author_facet Abdul Molok , Nurul Nuha
Ahmad, Atif
Chang, Shanton
author_sort Abdul Molok , Nurul Nuha
title Disclosure of organizational information by employees on Facebook: Looking at the potential for information security risks
title_short Disclosure of organizational information by employees on Facebook: Looking at the potential for information security risks
title_full Disclosure of organizational information by employees on Facebook: Looking at the potential for information security risks
title_fullStr Disclosure of organizational information by employees on Facebook: Looking at the potential for information security risks
title_full_unstemmed Disclosure of organizational information by employees on Facebook: Looking at the potential for information security risks
title_sort disclosure of organizational information by employees on facebook: looking at the potential for information security risks
publishDate 2011
url http://irep.iium.edu.my/33079/1/Abdul_Molok%2C_Ahmad_%26_Chang_2011_-_Disclosure_of_Org_Info_by_Employees_on_Facebook.pdf
http://irep.iium.edu.my/33079/
http://aisel.aisnet.org/acis2011/78/
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