Information and Knowledge Management in the Scope of the Information Security practices: the human factor within Organizations

• Autor(a) principal: Carneiro, Luciana Emirena Santos
• Data de Publicação: 2013
• Outros Autores: Almeida, Maurício Barcellos
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Encontros Bibli
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/eb/article/view/1518-2924.2013v18n37p175
• topic: Segurança da Informação; Gestão da Informação e do Conhecimento; Comportamento Informacional; Information Security; Information and Knowledge Management; Informational Behavior

The security of informational assets has always been a corporate requirement. These assets can be scaled in three main spheres, namely, people, organizational processes and technologies. The internet, the web, the broadcast of networks, and the growing presence of technology both in people's lives and in organizational contexts have caused profound transformations in the intrinsic processes that constitute personal and organizational routines. On the one hand, these changes provided by the technological progress have fostered competitiveness and decentralization; on the other hand, they require better management, control, security and protection for information and knowledge. This article presents the results of an investigation within information security realm, focusing on the human aspects of knowledge and information management related to security practices. Using a quality-quantitative approach, we identify behavioral actions and profiles of employees of a company in the field of healthcare, which reveal some connections with information security failures. We conclude that the human element is a relevant variable, even a critical one, for the management of information security in organizations.