Information Systems Security Training in Organizations: Andragogical Perspective

Organizations continue to suffer information systems (IS) security leaks, despite current research efforts by academia and practitioners to improve organizations’ security compliance. IS security training has been identified as a major IS security threats mitigation strategy because personnel and administrative issues were recognized as major gaps between IS security threats and their countermeasures. Lack of employees’ awareness has also been identified as a major obstacle to effective IS security posture. In addition, employee noncompliance with IS security policies and insider threats were acknowledged as fundamental security concerns for organizations. We argue that IS security awareness training and education are fundamentally important to an organization’s ability to ensure policy compliance. Therefore, an effective IS security design and education, which are learner-centered, task-centered, problem-centered will be more relevant to an organization; hence, the adoption of Adult Learning Theory to examine the phenomenon.