One of the most challenging problems modern firms face in maintaining information security is the behavior of employees: sharing working credentials with friends, telling friends and family private information, selling intellectual property to competitors, stealing credit card information, and...

One of the most challenging problems modern firms face is that their weakest link in maintaining information security is the behavior of employees: clicking on phishing emails, telling friends and family private information, and searching for private information about themselves (Loch et al. 1992;...

Much information security research focuses on policies firms could adopt to reduce or eliminate employees’ violation behavior. However, current information security policies are based on increasingly outmoded models of compliance behavior. This paper proposes a novel behavioral-based mechanism...