Adoption of information sistems security policies in Mozambican universities

• Autor(a) principal: Lopes, Isabel Maria
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Outros Autores: Monteiro, Joaquina Rafael
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/1822/66979
• topic: Segurança da informação; Segurança dos sistemas de informação nas universidades Moçambicana; Políticas de segurança de sistemas de informação; Information security; Information system security in Mozambican universities; Information systems security policies; Engenharia e Tecnologia::Engenharia Eletrotécnica, Eletrónica e Informática

Universities are handle increasingly higher amounts of information in digital format. Therefore, more rigorous and comprehensive security controls are indispensable. In literature, security policies assume a paramount role among security measures. This work was carried out using a questionnaire survey of 12 Mozambican universities, in which 69 colleges that were part of the structure of these universities. Whose objective was to answer the main question related to the possession of a security policy based on the research carried out, it was found out that 43 (62%) have an information systems security policy and 26 (38%) do not have an information systems security policy. The results are discussed in light of the data collected in the survey and identified future work.