Understanding the effects of situational crime prevention and personality factors on insider compliance

Abstract

This study investigated the moderating effects of situational factors and personality factors on an insider's attitude towards insider compliance within the domain of information security. The situational factors consider the manipulation of the environment via measures of Situational Crime Prevention. There is a dearth of studies that consider the moderating effects of situational factors and personality factors on the information security domain. Studies of this nature could be significant for organizations grappling with the insider threat problem – a challenging and multifaceted domain that requires a multipronged mitigation strategy with technical, organizational, socio-technical, and sociological effects. This study considers the socio-technical influence of the human element on the information security domain.