Contributing Factors in Electronic Signature Misuse: A Case Study of Software Engineering Students
Arfive Gandhi, Prati Hutari Gani · 2023
The use of electronic signatures was still dominated by a scan of a written signature non-certified signatures onto an image attached to a document. It causes the potential for misuse of electronic signatures to persist. Opportunities to misuse the electronic signatures were still possible, so organizations need to understand factors can encourage individual behavior to abuse electronic signatures. As the largest population within the university environment, students became the biggest risk holder for the misuse of electronic signatures. This research was motivated to reveal the contributing factors that may trigger students to misuse the electronic signatures. This research aims to identify the factors that contribute to the misuse of electronic signatures through these variables: Punishment Severity and Certainty (PSC), Subject Norm (SNO), Cybersecurity Skill (CYS), Attitude (ATT), Social Desirability Pressure (SDP), and Technical Control (TCO). This research performed the data collection in Software Engineering major in a university using 25 research instruments in five points of Likert-scale. After collecting 81 students, this research found Cyber Security Skill (CYS) and Punishment Severity and Certainty (PSC) as factors contributing to electronic signature misuse, while other variables were not proven statistically. Since PSC has proven as inhibiting factors, this research claimed that the existence of sanctions is sufficient to frighten students into not abusing the lecturer's electronic signature.