New Insights into the Justifiability of Organizational Information Security Policy Noncompliance: A Case Study

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dc.contributor.authorSoliman, Wael
dc.contributor.authorMohammadnazar, Hojat
dc.date.accessioned2021-12-24T18:22:09Z
dc.date.available2021-12-24T18:22:09Z
dc.date.issued2022-01-04
dc.description.abstractInformation security policies as apparatus for communicating security principles with employees are the cornerstone of organizational information security. Resultantly, extant literature has looked at different theories to better understand the noncompliance problem. Neutralization theory is emerging as one of the most popular approaches, not only as an explanation but also as a solution. In this in-depth qualitative study, we ask the question ‘how do employees justify violating the ISP’? Our findings reveal nine rationalizing techniques, three of which have not been recognized in previous research. We label them ‘I follow my own rules’, ‘matter of mere legality’ and ‘defense of uniqueness’. But more importantly, our in-depth insights point to the danger of taking these rationalizations out of context, since without context, it becomes impossible to judge whether the behavior or the rule, needs correcting, reflecting a dilemma recognized in the original writing of neutralization theory, which has since been forgotten.
dc.format.extent10 pages
dc.identifier.doi10.24251/HICSS.2022.823
dc.identifier.isbn978-0-9981331-5-7
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10125/80163
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofProceedings of the 55th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectOrganizational Cybersecurity: Advanced Cyber Defense, Cyber Analytics, and Security Operations
dc.subjectcase study
dc.subjectisp noncompliance
dc.subjectisp violation
dc.subjectneutralization theory
dc.titleNew Insights into the Justifiability of Organizational Information Security Policy Noncompliance: A Case Study
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