A brief study of information security and ethics awareness as an imperative component of management information systems
Max M. North, Roy George, Sarah M. North · 2007
In today's global economy, information security and awareness is an absolutely essential component of any management information system. Furthermore, the importance of information security and awareness is even more vital in university environments. Like other organizations, universities provide users with access to an immense amount of information and resources. As such, it is supremely important for students and faculty to be aware of security and ethical issues associated with the usage of these information resources. This paper briefly examines the data collected from a survey of computer science majors and non-majors enrolled in an introductory computer literacy course. The preliminary results of this survey reports that computer science majors were equally or slightly more aware of information security and ethics than non-majors. Finally, authors provide brief recommendations. This is a work in progress; detailed results and conclusions will be provided in future publications.