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Exploring the use of online social networking by employees: Looking at the potential for information leakage

The proliferation of online social networking (OSN) in recent years has caused organizations information security threats due to disclosure of information by their employees on their sites. The accessibility of OSN to anyone, at any time, using any devices, causes confidential and sensitive organiza...

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Main Authors: Abdul Molok, Nurul Nuha, Ahmad, Atif, Chang, Shanton
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
Published: 2011
Subjects:
H61.8 Communication of information
T58.6 Management information systems
Online Access:http://irep.iium.edu.my/8844/3/Abdul_Molok%2C_Ahmad_%26_Chang_2011_-_Exploring_the_use_of_OSN_by_employees.pdf
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spelling my.iium.irep.88442013-10-29T07:31:20Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/8844/ Exploring the use of online social networking by employees: Looking at the potential for information leakage Abdul Molok, Nurul Nuha Ahmad, Atif Chang, Shanton H61.8 Communication of information T58.6 Management information systems The proliferation of online social networking (OSN) in recent years has caused organizations information security threats due to disclosure of information by their employees on their sites. The accessibility of OSN to anyone, at any time, using any devices, causes confidential and sensitive organizational information to be disclosed to unauthorised individuals, whether accidentally or intentionally. This study aims to explore this current phenomenon by investigating OSN use behaviour among employees that leads to information leakage through the lens of Decomposed Theory of Planned Behavior. It also seeks to investigate the strategies utilized by organizations to control such use and propose a control framework that effectively safeguards organizational information security from this threat. 2011 Conference or Workshop Item REM application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/8844/3/Abdul_Molok%2C_Ahmad_%26_Chang_2011_-_Exploring_the_use_of_OSN_by_employees.pdf Abdul Molok, Nurul Nuha and Ahmad, Atif and Chang, Shanton (2011) Exploring the use of online social networking by employees: Looking at the potential for information leakage. In: Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems, 7 - 11 July 2011, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. http://aisel.aisnet.org/pacis2011/138/
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
Exploring the use of online social networking by employees: Looking at the potential for information leakage
description The proliferation of online social networking (OSN) in recent years has caused organizations information security threats due to disclosure of information by their employees on their sites. The accessibility of OSN to anyone, at any time, using any devices, causes confidential and sensitive organizational information to be disclosed to unauthorised individuals, whether accidentally or intentionally. This study aims to explore this current phenomenon by investigating OSN use behaviour among employees that leads to information leakage through the lens of Decomposed Theory of Planned Behavior. It also seeks to investigate the strategies utilized by organizations to control such use and propose a control framework that effectively safeguards organizational information security from this threat.
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 Exploring the use of online social networking by employees: Looking at the potential for information leakage
title_short Exploring the use of online social networking by employees: Looking at the potential for information leakage
title_full Exploring the use of online social networking by employees: Looking at the potential for information leakage
title_fullStr Exploring the use of online social networking by employees: Looking at the potential for information leakage
title_full_unstemmed Exploring the use of online social networking by employees: Looking at the potential for information leakage
title_sort exploring the use of online social networking by employees: looking at the potential for information leakage
publishDate 2011
url http://irep.iium.edu.my/8844/3/Abdul_Molok%2C_Ahmad_%26_Chang_2011_-_Exploring_the_use_of_OSN_by_employees.pdf
http://irep.iium.edu.my/8844/
http://aisel.aisnet.org/pacis2011/138/
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