Information Technology & People: Volume 32 Issue 5

Cybercrimes prevention: promising organisational practices

Mahmood Hussain Shah, Paul Jones, Jyoti Choudrie

Solutions for counteracting human deception in social engineering attacks

Curtis C. Campbell

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the top three cybersecurity issues in organizations related to social engineering and aggregate solutions for counteracting human…

Prevention of cybercrimes in smart cities of India: from a citizen’s perspective

Sheshadri Chatterjee, Arpan Kumar Kar, Yogesh K. Dwivedi, Hatice Kizgin

The purpose of this paper is to identify the factors influencing the citizens of India to prevent cybercrimes in the proposed Smart Cities of India.

Preventing identity theft: Identifying major barriers to knowledge-sharing in online retail organisations

Abdullah Maitlo, Nisreen Ameen, Hamid Reza Peikari, Mahmood Shah

Knowledge-sharing (KS) for preventing identity theft has become a major challenge for organisations. The purpose of this paper is to fill a gap in the literature by investigating…

Crime and social media

Simplice Asongu, Jacinta Nwachukwu, Stella-Maris Orim, Chris Pyke

The purpose of this paper is to complement the scant macroeconomic literature on the development outcomes of social media by examining the relationship between Facebook…

Shoplifting in mobile checkout settings: cybercrime in retail stores

John A. Aloysius, Ankur Arora, Viswanath Venkatesh

Retailers are implementing technology-enabled mobile checkout processes in their stores to improve service quality, decrease labor costs and gain operational efficiency. These new…

Organizational practices as antecedents of the information security management performance: An empirical investigation

Daniel Pérez-González, Sara Trigueros Preciado, Pedro Solana-Gonzalez

The purpose of this paper is to expand current knowledge about the security organizational practices and analyze its effects on the information security management performance.

Online social network security awareness: mass interpersonal persuasion using a Facebook app

Ehinome Ikhalia, Alan Serrano, David Bell, Panos Louvieris

Online social network (OSN) users have a high propensity to malware threats due to the trust and persuasive factors that underpin OSN models. The escalation of social engineering…

The effect of cybercrime on open innovation policies in technology firms

Vanessa Ratten

Open innovation is important for technology firms as they can use freely available resources to source creative and innovative ideas. Despite the usefulness of open innovation for…

Cybersecurity economics – balancing operational security spending

Stale Ekelund, Zilia Iskoujina

The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how to find the optimal investment level in protecting an organisation’s assets.