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Disclosure of organizational information on social media: Perspectives from security managers

Despite the benefits of social media to organizations, the pervasive online social networking (OSN) among employees has been reported to be detrimental to organizations. The ubiquity of social technologies makes employees’ professional and personal boundaries unclear, allowing inadvertent leakage of...

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Main Authors: Abdul Molok , Nurul Nuha, Chang, Shanton, Ahmad, Atif
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
Published: 2013
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H61.8 Communication of information
T58.6 Management information systems
Online Access:http://irep.iium.edu.my/33081/1/Abdul_Molok_2013_-_Disclosure_of_Organizational_Information_on_Social_Media.pdf
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spelling my.iium.irep.330812013-11-29T03:45:28Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/33081/ Disclosure of organizational information on social media: Perspectives from security managers Abdul Molok , Nurul Nuha Chang, Shanton Ahmad, Atif H61.8 Communication of information T58.6 Management information systems Despite the benefits of social media to organizations, the pervasive online social networking (OSN) among employees has been reported to be detrimental to organizations. The ubiquity of social technologies makes employees’ professional and personal boundaries unclear, allowing inadvertent leakage of organizational information through the public domain. Without proper information security management, social media could be a double-edged sword to organizations. Hence, some organizations are employing various security strategies to mitigate employees’ use of these social platforms. While cases of information leakage through OSN have been reported worldwide, its coverage in academic literature is scant. This paper aims to fill in this research gap. It reports the findings of a qualitative multiple-case study to unravel information security issues that OSN might bring to organizations. It also describes the security strategies employed by organizations and factors that influenced the strategy decision. The understanding of this contemporary phenomenon and organizational security strategy contributes to the development of a theoretical framework that may offer practical insight to organizations. 2013-06 Conference or Workshop Item REM application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/33081/1/Abdul_Molok_2013_-_Disclosure_of_Organizational_Information_on_Social_Media.pdf Abdul Molok , Nurul Nuha and Chang, Shanton and Ahmad, Atif (2013) Disclosure of organizational information on social media: Perspectives from security managers. In: Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems, 18 - 22 June 2013, Jeju Island, Korea. http://aisel.aisnet.org/pacis2013/108/
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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
Chang, Shanton
Ahmad, Atif
Disclosure of organizational information on social media: Perspectives from security managers
description Despite the benefits of social media to organizations, the pervasive online social networking (OSN) among employees has been reported to be detrimental to organizations. The ubiquity of social technologies makes employees’ professional and personal boundaries unclear, allowing inadvertent leakage of organizational information through the public domain. Without proper information security management, social media could be a double-edged sword to organizations. Hence, some organizations are employing various security strategies to mitigate employees’ use of these social platforms. While cases of information leakage through OSN have been reported worldwide, its coverage in academic literature is scant. This paper aims to fill in this research gap. It reports the findings of a qualitative multiple-case study to unravel information security issues that OSN might bring to organizations. It also describes the security strategies employed by organizations and factors that influenced the strategy decision. The understanding of this contemporary phenomenon and organizational security strategy contributes to the development of a theoretical framework that may offer practical insight to organizations.
format Conference or Workshop Item
author Abdul Molok , Nurul Nuha
Chang, Shanton
Ahmad, Atif
author_facet Abdul Molok , Nurul Nuha
Chang, Shanton
Ahmad, Atif
author_sort Abdul Molok , Nurul Nuha
title Disclosure of organizational information on social media: Perspectives from security managers
title_short Disclosure of organizational information on social media: Perspectives from security managers
title_full Disclosure of organizational information on social media: Perspectives from security managers
title_fullStr Disclosure of organizational information on social media: Perspectives from security managers
title_full_unstemmed Disclosure of organizational information on social media: Perspectives from security managers
title_sort disclosure of organizational information on social media: perspectives from security managers
publishDate 2013
url http://irep.iium.edu.my/33081/1/Abdul_Molok_2013_-_Disclosure_of_Organizational_Information_on_Social_Media.pdf
http://irep.iium.edu.my/33081/
http://aisel.aisnet.org/pacis2013/108/
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