Procedural Preventive and Detective Control Measures Adopted by Administrative Officers for Effective Information Management in Colleges of Education in South-South, Nigeria

Abstract

Cybercrimes and hacking activities have hindered the smooth management of several tertiary institutions. This has been attributed to poor information control measures. Based on this background, it is very salient that school management put in place good information control measures to safeguard their institutions from unforeseen hacks and cyber-attacks. Hence, the present study determined the procedural preventive and Detective control measures adopted by administrative officers for effective information management in Colleges of Education in South-South Nigeria. The study adopted a descriptive survey research design. The population for the study was 1580 consisting of 232 Strategic, 569 Tactical, and 779 Operational Administrative Officers from the 11 colleges of Education across the six states that make up South-South Nigeria. 320 respondents using a proportional sampling technique were used to determine the number of the strategic, tactical, and operational administrative officers for each of the colleges of education studied. The instrument for data collection was a structured questionnaire titled "Information Management Control Measures Questionnaire (IMCMQ)" which was developed by the researcher in line with the reviewed literature. The questionnaire was face-validated by five experts. The reliability of the instrument was tested using the Cronbach Alpha method to determine its internal consistency and this yielded an overall coefficient of 0.93. Mean, standard deviation, and Analysis of Variance were used to analyze the data collected. The findings showed that the administrative officers highly adopted procedural preventive control but moderately adopted the identified detective control measures for effective information management. The findings of the hypotheses t showed that there was no significant difference among the opinions of the respondents on the level at which they adopt the procedural preventive and detective control measures for effective information management of their Article history: