Parsons et al., 2014: A Study of Information Security Awareness in Australian Government Organisations

Topic:

Overall, management and employees had reasonable levels of InfoSec awareness. However, weaknesses were identified in the use of wireless technology, the reporting of security incidents and the use of social networking sites. These weaknesses were identified in the survey data of the employees and corroborated in the management interviews.

survey, 203 employees of 3 organisations

Constructs in this publication:

Construct	Cites	Category	Questions given?	Content validity	Pretests	Response type	Notes
importance of InfoSec policies	NEW		no	no	none	various
principles of InfoSec policies	NEW		no	no	none	various
rules of InfoSec policies	NEW		no	no	none	various
password management	NEW		no	no	none	various
email and Internet usage	NEW		no	no	none	various
reporting security incidents	NEW		no	no	none	various
consequences of behaviour	NEW		no	no	none	various
training	NEW		no	no	none	various

This publication is cited by the following publications:

• Pattinson et al., 2016: Password management
• Pattinson et al., 2016: Email use
• Pattinson et al., 2016: Internet use
• Pattinson et al., 2016: Social networking
• Pattinson et al., 2016: Mobile computing
• Pattinson et al., 2016: Information handling
• Pattinson et al., 2016: Incident reporting

Citation:

Kathryn Parsons, Agata McCormac, Malcolm Pattinson, Marcus Butavicius, and Cate Jerram. A study of information security awareness in Australian government organisations. Information Management & Computer Security, 22(4):334–345, 2014.

Bibtex

@article{parsons_study_2014,
 author = {Parsons, Kathryn and McCormac, Agata and Pattinson, Malcolm and Butavicius, Marcus and Jerram, Cate},
 journal = {Information Management \& Computer Security},
 number = {4},
 pages = {334--345},
 title = {A Study of Information Security Awareness in {{Australian}} Government Organisations},
 volume = {22},
 year = {2014}
}

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