Journal of Management Information System & E-commerce

Perceived Risk, Information Security and Protection Tools in the Context of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises
Thiago Militino Santos Gonçalves, Humberto Caetano Cardoso da Silva

Abstract
Information security is a current issue and should also be addressed in the context of small and medium-sized enterprises. However, the list of available tools and the type of protection that each of these tools provides is a topic that does not yet have the correct treatment by the organization's managers. Information security has physical, technological and human aspects, and it is very common to find companies with protection in the technological and physical areas, leaving the human side of information security without any protection. This fact is even more present when the manager's perception of risk does not point to the threats that the information is subject to. This article deals with information security tools and how the risk perception of the organizational manager can influence the use or not of these tools in the technological, physical and human areas of information security.

Full Text: PDF     DOI: 10.15640/jmise.v5n1a1