Information Security Culture as a Social System: Some Notes of Information Availability and Sharing

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Author(s): Rauno Kuusisto (Finland Futures Research Center, Turku School of Economics, Finland)and Tuija Kuusisto (Finnish National Defense University, Finland)
Copyright: 2009
Pages: 21
Source title: Social and Human Elements of Information Security: Emerging Trends and Countermeasures
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Manish Gupta (State University of New York, USA)and Raj Sharman (State University of New York, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-036-3.ch006

Keywords: Information Science Reference / Information Security & Privacy / IT Security and Ethics / Security & Forensics

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The purpose of this chapter is to increase understanding of the complex nature of information security culture in a networked working environment. Viewpoint is comprehensive information exchange in a social system. The aim of this chapter is to raise discussion about information security culture development challenges when acting in a multicultural environment. This chapter does not introduce a method to handle complex cultural situation, but gives some notes to gain understanding, what might be behind this complexity. Understanding the nature of this complex cultural environment is essential to form evolving and proactive security practices. Direct answers to formulate practices are not offered in this chapter, but certain general phenomena of the activity of a social system are pointed out. This will help readers to apply these ideas to their own solutions.

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