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Information Systems Security and Privacy

Abstract

Organizations are faced with information loss on a daily basis. Threats such as hacker attacks are mitigated by applyingpatches, improving encryption routines, closing security loop-holes in a program and keeping a constant vigil on virus andmalicious threats with up-to-date scanning techniques. Companies invest millions of dollars to keep such attacks at bay sincea loss of up-time to servers could cause a significant loss in customer revenue and thus result in catastrophic losses incustomer satisfaction and ultimately profits. Organizations that create or modify software try to deter threats to theirapplications by providing information security policies that provide guidelines to developers on what best practices need tobe adopted to make their applications safe and secure for customer consumption. This study presents a conceptual model forstudying how cognitive style impacts software developer motivations as they approach the task of complying withinformation security policies. The model is informed by the literature on information security awareness, ProtectionMotivation Theory, Kirton’s adaption-innovation theory and Herzberg’s motivation and hygiene theory.

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