The E-business Perspective as a Solution for Inertia against Complexity Management in SME

Mandorf, Susanna; Gregu, Michal

doi:10.1109/incos.2014.45

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“…According to Millaire et al (2017), Mandorf and Gregus (2014), Zavadska and Zavadsky (2018) a fundamental reason why SMEs are a popular target for threats is that attackers are looking for simple goals and small companies with limited budgets and don't consider cyber security to be important. SMEs they are easier to disrupt than large enterprises that invest substantial amount of funds in the security of information systems (Millaire et al, 2017).…”

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Information security management in SMEs: factors of success

Ključnikov¹,

Mura²,

Sklenar³

2019

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While the consecutive metamorphoses in the world economy changes the paradigm of doing business, the sources of success of almost every type of business transfer from tangible to intangible assets, and the information and its value becomes more and more significant, especially in the segment of small and medium sized enterprises. The aim of this paper was to identify the factors of success of information security management in segment of SMEs in Slovakia. Based on the literature research we identified 4 main factors of success of information security management, including the Compliance of information security management with the company's business activities, Support of top management, Security controls and Organizational awareness. To identify the importance and interconnections of the specified factors we have addressed senior IT security experts from SMEs in Slovakia. The experts evaluated the significance and relationships the factors of success of information security management and the results of the expert evaluation were processed using the DEMATEL technique. The results of the research show that the Security Controls and Supportive top management are the most important factors in general, while the factor of organizational awareness is the most obvious and important in the short-term period. Our results imply that SMEs should promote organizational awareness in information security management in line with implementation of the security controls at the first line of the defense.

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