Exploring SME cybersecurity practices in developing countries

Kabanda, Salah; Tanner, Maureen; Kent, Cameron

doi:10.1080/10919392.2018.1484598

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“…Especially, SMEs can utilize their resources more effectively and improve the savings by adaptation to the internet and the same information and communication technologies (Sener et al 2014). With the internet, institutions can create international bonds with new vendors to lower the costs, with new customers to enhance the sales, and receive the privilege of declining communication costs, thereby having an efficient and quick transaction procedure (Kabanda and Kent 2018).…”

Section: The Challenge Of Information Communication Technologymentioning

confidence: 99%

A Review of Global Challenges and Survival Strategies of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs)

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Economic globalization has created many challenges for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) due to the rapid increase in competition. Therefore, the downfall rate of SMEs is relatively high, a short period after their commencement. Accordingly, SMEs need to adopt survival strategies and strategic methods to succeed in confronting the various global challenges faced by the SME sector. This study critically examined the existing literature on global challenges for SMEs to understand the SMEs’ survival and successive mechanisms in the present competitive business background. Published information related to the field by the multilateral institutions and 110 research papers published by four recognized publishing companies, i.e., Emerald, Elsevier, Taylor and Francis, and MDPI, were chosen for this study. The review revealed the critical global challenges for SMEs within the context of economic globalization. They are the global market competition, global finance and economic crises, information communication technology, the emergence of multi-national corporations, transnational corporations, consumer changes and especially their preferences, trade dumping, international terrorism, and religious conflicts and trade wars. Furthermore, the study considered the survival strategies of SMEs in the industrial platform to recognize sustainability-related policies, specifically, the necessity for a robust theoretical examination on the survival strategies of SMEs in the field of global challenges.

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Section: The Challenge Of Information Communication Technologymentioning

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A Review of Global Challenges and Survival Strategies of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs)

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“…Therefore, in that respect there are different views about the credibility of the concept and subjective norm. Nevertheless, the majority of researchers proved that subjective norm has an inverse relationship with the information security non-compliant behavior and hence it grooms the compliance nature (Cheng et al 2013;Kabanda, Tanner, and Kent 2018;Seyal and Turner 2013).…”

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“…Management support In this study, management support is defined as the perception of the employees regarding their managers' support and understanding of importance of the information security. In an organization, if the information security is important, then the management should visibly implement the policy guidelines and enable the employees with adequate training so that management acts as a huge support for their staff (Al Hogail, Mirza, and Bakry 2015;Gadzama et al 2014;Kabanda, Tanner, and Kent 2018). A well-defined process of secure communication with relevant education, reminders and refresher courses increase employee's feelings of responsibility and ownership in decisions about security and ultimately lead to a more positive attitude about security throughout the whole organization (Greene and D'Arcy 2010; Humaidi and Balakrishnan 2015).…”

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“…The information security policies vary as per the nature of organization-health, auditing, software developing, and so forth (Abawajy 2014;Parsons et al 2014;Awan, Khan, and Zhang 2012;Robinson 2018). It is not just framing the policies of the organization, but it has become imperative to apply these policies to the information security personnel (Aurigemma and Panko 2012;Hu, West, and Smarandescu 2015;Kabanda, Tanner, and Kent 2018). While spell on the employees' side, they believe to be the weakest link in the concatenation of data security and expected non-compliant nature at all tiers (Asai and Hakizabera 2011;Brock and Khan 2017;Warkentin and Wilson 2009).…”

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Violators versus non-violators of information security measures in organizations—A study of distinguishing factors

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2019

Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce

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The present study analyzes the elements that differentiate violators from non-violators of information security measures. Various elements are derived from established theories and models such as general deterrence theory, theory of planned behavior, theory of reasoned action, protection motivation theory, and social cognitive theory. To examine these factors, the data are gathered through an online study conducted in a Midwestern University, USA. The data are collected using questionnaires, and after scrutiny, 195 questionnaires are selected for final analysis. This data are analyzed using second-level statistical techniques, such as chi-square analysis and ANOVA. Results reveal that violators and non-violators of information security measures differ significantly with respect to many factors. These factors include perceived privacy, subjective norms, perceived information security policy (ISP) scope, perceived severity of penalty, perceived celerity of penalty, management support, organizational security culture, and perceived organizational IT capability. The non-significant factors are trust and work load. Implications for practitioners and researchers are provided.

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“…Organizations use advanced access control systems to allow context-specific access to information assets and information (Gostojić et al 2012;Kabanda, Tanner, and Kent 2018). The implementation of access control policies necessitates back-and-forth communication with central servers.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%