The Internet of Things holds has the potential to provide an array of technological benefits and online resources to individual users and society in general. However, the Digital Divide, the gap between information computing technology (ICT) and those who can effectively take advantage of it, presents challenges to the global implementation of the Internet of Things. Factors contributing to the Digital Divide include lack of broadband access, cost of ICT, user socioeconomic challenges, user security concerns, and political or governmental restrictions.

Human factors affect the incorporation and efficiency of information systems security (ISS). This study examined various factors which affect and shape the ethical perspectives and decision making processes of individuals with access to personal, sensitive, and classified information maintained in information systems. A two-round web-based Delphi survey was completed by a ten member panel of ISS subject matter experts who were convened to identify and establish the key indicators of four virtue ethics based formative constructs for ISS trusted worker decision making and conduct. Consensus was reached on the applicability of a set of indicators for each construct. The high level of agreement among panel members indicates that these constructs can be used to promote conceptual thinking about the influences and implications to the ISS culture in an organisation. The controls lay the foundation for future research as they can be incorporated into a new theoretical model of ISS trusted worker ethical behaviour.

Human factors affect the incorporation and efficiency of information systems security (ISS). This study examined various factors which affect and shape the ethical perspectives and decision making processes of individuals with access to personal, sensitive, and classified information maintained in information systems. A two-round web-based Delphi survey was completed by a ten member panel of ISS subject matter experts who were convened to identify and establish the key indicators of four virtue ethics based formative constructs for ISS trusted worker decision making and conduct. Consensus was reached on the applicability of a set of indicators for each construct. The high level of agreement among panel members indicates that these constructs can be used to promote conceptual thinking about the influences and implications to the ISS culture in an organisation. The controls lay the foundation for future research as they can be incorporated into a new theoretical model of ISS trusted worker ethical behaviour.

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