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Designing A Messaging Strategy To Improve Information Security Policy Compliance, Federico Giovannetti
Designing A Messaging Strategy To Improve Information Security Policy Compliance, Federico Giovannetti
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
Lack of employee compliance with information security policies is a key factor driving security incidents. Information security practitioners struggle to enforce policy compliance while employees try to curtail safeguards in favor of expediency and other perceived business goals. Several studies have shown individual and organizational factors influencing this type of employee behavior. However, few have recommended management-level interventions that can be used as a solution framework by information security practitioners.
This research utilized the Design Science Research (DSR) methodology to develop a management-level intervention based on a messaging strategy that aims to help information security practitioners improve the information security …