Abstract

ALBUQUERQUE JUNIOR, Antonio Eduardo de et al. The Adoption of Formal, Informal, and Technical Information Security Measures and their Relation with Institutional Environment Pressures. RISTI [online]. 2018, n.30, pp.17-33. ISSN 1646-9895.  https://doi.org/10.17013/risti.30.17-33.

Organizations may adopt Information Security measures to protect information, but adoption may be influenced by external environment through regulations, contracts, agreements, and inspection, professional knowledge about international standards and technologies that are taken for granted, and imitation of successful constituents of environment. However, it is not known what pressures influence adoption of different types of Information Security measures. This paper aimed to identify which coercive, mimetic, and normative pressures influence adoption of formal, informal, and technical Information Security measures in Brazilian public universities, which have the challenge of disseminating knowledge while need to protect research information and private data. The research involved a survey with universities' Information Security managers and professionals, and research in documents. The results show adoption of technical and informal measures is influenced mainly by normative pressures while formal measures are adopted due to coercive pressures.

Keywords : public universities; information security; pressures; institutional environment.

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