Abstract
The security of organizations’ information resources is often threatened by employee non-compliance to security policy or negligence. Though technical and procedural controls for curtailing security violations and motivating secure behaviors have been explored in the literature, security violations persist. Given the significant influence individuals wield on the welfare of organizations’ security and the dynamic nature of security threats, we explore voluntary security behaviors through the mechanism of stewardship. Drawing from the stewardship and information security literature, we develop and test a stewardship model of voluntary security behaviors using a sample of 409 working individuals. The results show that organizational support and identification influence stewardship, which in turn affects voluntary security behaviors. Our findings have several theoretical and practical implications for increasing stewardship and voluntary security behaviors in the organization.
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