Does reputational sanctions deter negligence in information security management? A field quasi-experiment

• Main Authors: TANG, Qian, WHINSTON, Andrew B.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2020
• Subjects: Field quasi-experiment; information security; reputational sanction; spam; Computer Sciences; Information Security
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/4864; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/5867/viewcontent/ReputationSanction_av.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Security negligence, a major cause of data breaches, occurs when an organization’s information technology management fails to adequately address security vulnerabilities. By conducting a field quasi-experiment using outgoing spam as a focal security issue, this study investigates the effectiveness o...