Article ID: | iaor1992786 |
Country: | Netherlands |
Volume: | 21 |
Issue: | 3 |
Start Page Number: | 127 |
End Page Number: | 135 |
Publication Date: | Oct 1991 |
Journal: | Information and Management |
Authors: | Frank Jonathan, Shamir Boas, Warren Briggs |
This paper discusses the problems invovled in controlling the security-related behavior of personal computer users in organizations. It presents a framework for analyzing these issues and discusses how it was applied to a field study of PC users’ behavior and attitudes towards backup, documentation, data storage, and file access practices. Seventy PC users from 12 organizations in the Boston area were interviewed. The variables with the most significant relationship to security-related behavior were PC user