講題：Putting fear back into fear-appeals research to better secure organisations
時間：2015/04/27 (一) 19:00 開始
地點：國立中山大學管理學院管3051教室
講者：Dr. Paul Benjamin Lowry (香港城市大學)

演講摘要：Because violations of information security (ISec) and privacy have become ubiquitous in both personal and work environments, academic attention to ISec and privacy has taken on paramount importance. Consequently, a key focus of ISec research has been discovering ways to motivate individuals to engage in more secure behaviours. Over time, the protection motivation theory (PMT) has become a leading theoretical foundation used in ISec research to help motivate individuals to change their security-related behaviours to protect themselves and their organizations. Our careful review of the foundation for PMT identified three opportunities for improving ISec PMT research. First, extant ISec studies do not use the full nomology of PMT constructs. Second, only one study uses fear-appeal manipulations, even though these are a core element of PMT, and virtually no ISec study models or measures fear. Third, whereas these studies have made excellent progress in predicting security intentions, none of them have addressed actual security behaviours. We describe the theoretical foundation of these three opportunities for improvement. We tested the nomology of PMT, including manipulated fear appeals, in two different ISec contexts that model PMT’s modern theoretical treatment more closely than do extant ISec studies. The first data collection was a longitudinal study in the context of data backups. The second study was a short-term cross-sectional study in the context of anti-malware software. Our new model demonstrated better results and stronger fit than the existing models and confirmed the efficacy of the three potential improvements we identified.

講者簡歷：
Dr. Paul Benjamin Lowry is a Full Professor of Information Systems at the Department of Information Systems, City University of Hong Kong. He received his Ph.D. in Management Information Systems from the University of Arizona and MBA from the Marriott School of Management. He has published 66+ articles in MIS Quarterly, ISR, J. of MIS, J. of the AIS, ISJ, EJIS, IJHCS, JASIST, I&M, CACM, and many others. He is an SE at Decision Sciences and AIS-Transactions on HCI. He serves as an AE at MIS Quarterly (regular guest), European Journal of IS, Information & Management, Communications of the AIS, and the Information Security Education Journal. He has also served as an ICIS, ECIS, and PACIS track chair. In 2014, he was ranked by the AIS as the 9th most productive (normal count) IS scholar in the world (top <1%) for publishing in the top-4 IS journals. His research interests include behavioural and organisational security issues; HCI and decision sciences; e-commerce and supply chains; and scientometrics.
 

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