Disclosure of organizational information by employees on facebook: Looking at the potential for information security risks

Abstract

Online social networking (OSN) is a global phenomenon and its use by employees has been reported to be detrimental to organizations. Nevertheless, OSN impacts on organizational information security are rarely discussed in academic literature. This study investigates the use of OSN sites by employees and work-related information disclosed on their personal pages that may jeopardize the security of organizational information. The paper presents the characteristics of work-related information that can be disclosed on Facebook, possibly has the potential to open the doorway for information security threats. It also discusses the qualitative findings from four Malaysian-based organizations under ..