Information Security is crucial to organization especially to financial and industrial when dealing with company information and data. Information Security is defined as protecting the information and information system from unauthorized access, use, disruption, modification, disclosure, or also the destruction which to provide the confidentiality, availability, and integrity of the information. Information Security role as protecting the information and systems that covers compliance which involves data protection and publication scheme, and Information Management for Corporate Records, Copyrights and Intellectual Property. In this fast-changing world today, mobile technologies in information age nowadays have the ability and advance functions of computers and connectivity. In everyone’s daily life, technologies have become integral and ubiquitous without their realization and user is vulnerable to the cyber-attack. Criminal hackers are attracted to steal personal and organization information. Thus, corporate data must be prevented from being transferred to personal application whether it is on personal devices or computer networks. As for organization, information and data are crucial for their organization plan, business conducts and future successfulness. This article will discuss issues, awareness, types of behavior, compliance and policies regarding information security.
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To Cite this Article: Shamsudin, N. N. A., Yatin, S. F. M., Nazim, N. F. M., Talib, A. W., Sopiee, M. A. M., & Shaari, F. N. (2019). Information Security Behaviors among Employees. International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences, 9(6), 560–571.
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