The effect of attentiveness on information security

Abstract

This paper presents a brief overview of a larger study on the impact of attentiveness, in addition to other factors related to the human factors, on information security in both private and government organizations in Saudi Arabia. The aim of the initial experiment was to sense the existence of attentiveness in relation to information security; the results were encouraging enough to go for a larger scale experiment with additional human factors such as awareness, workload and passwords, etc. We believe this is to be the first study to investigate the effect of attentiveness as a part of the Saudi culture context on organizational information security. © 2010 Springer-Verlag.