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DOI: 10.14569/IJACSA.2021.0121191
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Factors Influencing the Adoption of Cyber Security Standards Among Public Listed Companies in Malaysia

Author 1: Mohamed Abdalla
Author 2: Muath Jarrah
Author 3: Ahmed Abu-Khadrah
Author 4: Yusri bin Arshad

International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications(IJACSA), Volume 12 Issue 11, 2021.

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Abstract: Employee’s failure to adhere to their organization’s cyber security policies contributes most of the cyber incidents. To secure information security systems, companies need to communicate behavioral and technical solutions to their employees, due to the fragility of the human factor since it plays a critically significant role in securing cyber systems. The necessity to safeguard information systems have speed up the evolution of the present method of cyber security, which should be based on adequately adopting cyber security standards to secure business enterprise’s assets and users in cyberspace. This paper studies factors influencing the adoption of cyber security standards among public listed companies in Malaysia. Through online survey that was distributed among 275 Public listed companies. The findings indicated that expected related benefits and perceived ease of use had significant impact on the adoption of cyber security standards. On the other hand, perceived security had played important moderating influence on the relationship between organizational factors and the adoption of cyber security standards.

Keywords: Cyber security; human factor; cyberspace; cyber security standards

Mohamed Abdalla, Muath Jarrah, Ahmed Abu-Khadrah and Yusri bin Arshad, “Factors Influencing the Adoption of Cyber Security Standards Among Public Listed Companies in Malaysia” International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications(IJACSA), 12(11), 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2021.0121191

@article{Abdalla2021,
title = {Factors Influencing the Adoption of Cyber Security Standards Among Public Listed Companies in Malaysia},
journal = {International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications},
doi = {10.14569/IJACSA.2021.0121191},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2021.0121191},
year = {2021},
publisher = {The Science and Information Organization},
volume = {12},
number = {11},
author = {Mohamed Abdalla and Muath Jarrah and Ahmed Abu-Khadrah and Yusri bin Arshad}
}



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